Scott Silverstein, a 2008 graduate of St. John’s College High School, was diagnosed Wednesday at Sibley Hospital with a torn labrum. The attending doctor, Ben Shaffer (Washington Nationals Orthopedic Surgeon), performed a scope of Silverstein's shoulder due to continued soreness.

Silverstein, who was drafted by the Washington Nationals last week in the 32nd round of the 2008 Major League Baseball first-year player draft, is expected to be able to make a successful recovery after an eight-month rehabilitation program. Silverstein (6-5, 210) will be attending the University of Virginia in the fall and is expected to pitch for the baseball team in February 2009.

Sorry to hear about your son's devastating injury.
He does have a chance to receive a first rate education at UVA, though. Good luck with everything.

Best of luck to Scott for a speedy and full recovery! And congratulations on being selected by the Nationals in the recent draft.

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Originally posted by Tom Horton:
Best of luck to Scott for a speedy and full recovery! And congratulations on being selected by the Nationals in the recent draft.

Best wishes.

What a Pitcher!!! Best of luck to Scott. I am looking forward to following his progress. He is going to have a spectacular career at UVA!

I know Scott was disappointed not to be on the hill for his senior season. It's a tribute to him that he was drafted even with that situation. I hope this means he can look forward to three pain free and successful years in Charlottesville and then onward and upward.

Scott had the benefit of leverging the UVA physical therapy over the summer and early fall and has made a full recovery He is pitching at full range of motion/pain free and regularly in bullpen at UVA. He should be part of the rotation mix in early March ---- also will get some opportunities at DH and firstbase. On another note, Danny Hultzen has been extremely effective and impressive during his pitching opportunities and should be a very important part of their pitching staff this spring.

Wonderful news about Scott!

Tell him that today the trucks were out, tearing up the field at SJC!

LHPMom

Hope Scott has a great season. My son was Scott's roommate at the Tournament of Stars
Scott is a great kid. Hope to see you in three weeks when Rich's team plays Virgina.

Ditto, March 6-8 in Winston-Salem!

Unfortunately, I recently found out that Wake and UVA will not play each other (at least not in the regular season) in 2010 or 2011. So Trepfan, this may be our only chance to face off! Will you make the trip?

Interesting. I understand the unbalanced schedule in the large conferences in football, but same applies in baseball? Logistics can't support ACC teams playing every other school at least once per year? I would think that although you couldn't get a weekend with each, you could get a weekday for the balance of teams and then rotate the weekends and weekdays over the course of several years so it would balance out. I guess too far to travel during the week? Or some other reason.