Red Sox’s Trevor Story Offers Update On ‘Very Unique’ Injury Recovery
Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story is plugging along in his recovery from shoulder surgery.
Story back in April underwent an arthroscopic repair of the posterior labrum, with an open reduction and internal fixation of the fracture of the glenoid rim. He’s expected to miss the remainder of the 2024 season.
The injury — which Story suffered while diving for a ground ball — is no joke, something the 31-year-old has learned throughout his rehab process.
“It’s been a challenging process, man,” Story told Tom Caron and Alex Speier this week on the latest episode of the “310 to Left” podcast. “I couldn’t have imagined it to be this hard at the beginning. I kind of expected it to be something that was a little easier than the elbow (injury), and that’s certainly not the case. I think shoulder surgery, in general, the people I’ve talked to, they say it’s one of the most challenging ones. And it’s turned out to be a unique injury, to where not just the labrum but the fracture, the place of the fracture and just kind of things that you can’t see that go on. You can see the fracture, you can see the labrum, but there’s just a lot of trauma that happened to my shoulder that you can’t really see.
“Just being patient, and that’s been the hardest part. But given where I’m at now, as opposed to a month ago, is crazy the amount of progress that we’ve made. So, I’m really happy about that and that’s why it makes sense to be out here with my (personal trainers) out here in California. Because like I said, it’s a very unique injury and something that they haven’t seen a lot of it, but they’ve seen a little bit more of it than anybody else, so it makes sense.”
