PHOENIX –– Dodgers reliever Brock Stewart described the shoulder surgery that ended his 2025 season last September as a “pretty straightforward procedure.”
But then, while speaking to The California Post on Friday atCamelback Ranch, the right-hander actually explained all that team surgeon Dr. Neal ElAttrache did to try to remedy his chronic shoulder problems.
“Shaved up a bone spur, kind of took out part of my clavicle, took out the bursa,” Stewart said nonchalantly, hopeful that the rather gory specifics of the operation will finally lead to better health moving forward.
“It just essentially gave me way more room for the head of my humerus to rotate,” Stewart added. “Feels much better. I can tell inherently it’s very much cleaned up. The throw feels good.”
Stewart doesn’t relish the fact he can rattle off such intricate medical details so fluently. He’d rather not be missing his bursa (a fluid sac that is supposed to protect shoulder tendons) and part of his clavicle (aka, his collarbone).
But over a roller-coaster professional career –– which originally began a decade ago as a depth starter with the Dodgers, plummeted to the nadir of independent league ball in 2020 and has since seen him reinvent himself as a high-leverage reliever whom the Dodgers reacquired at last year’s trade deadline –– recurring shoulder problems have left him little other choice.
If it helps pitch pain-free now, so be it.
“I’ve pitched in 13 professional seasons, and it seems like half of those seasons I’ve dealt with something in my shoulder,” he said. “So, it is what it is. Hopefully, this took care of those chronic issues.”
Indeed, Stewart is seeking a new beginning this year.
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