When batters grip a bat, the knob often presses against the hamate bone. The bone can withstand intermittent pressure with little harm. But for hitters who swing a bat thousands of times, the bone ...

SARASOTA, Fla. — As players ramp up during spring training, injuries such as pulled hamstrings, oblique strains and any arm injury for pitchers are a regular part of the process. But the injury that’s ...

There is always injury news in spring training, but we've never received injury news like this. Francisco Lindor, Jackson Holliday and Corbin Carroll have all recently suffered hamate bone injuries, ...

Francisco Lindor of the Mets, Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks, and Jackson Holliday of the Orioles all are going to miss time with the same issue: a hamate bone injury. This is not good news on its ...

Those are three very big, very important names, all from a bone that most people probably couldn't even identify. So: Just what the heck is a hamate bone? And why is it causing MLB stars to drop like ...

In just the past couple of days, three of MLB’s most prominent players—five-time All-Star Francisco Lindor of the Mets, two-time All-Star Corbin Carroll of the Diamondbacks and budding star Jackson ...

Pitchers and catchers reporting to MLB Spring Training is always a fraught time of year, as physicals reveal all manner of offseason injuries that hadn't previously been made public. In 2026, though, ...