Price says he would have gotten surgery on elbow if he were younger

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After throwing into a net both Saturday and Sunday, David Price said that his elbow is feeling better than he expected it would at this point, but added an interesting detail. 

Price, who was scratched from his first spring training start earlier this month and underwent an MRI on his elbow, traveled to Indianapolis for second opinions from Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Neil ElAttrache. He tweeted shortly after the meeting that he was returning to spring training, with John Farrell saying shortly after that surgery would not be required. 

After resting and resuming throwing, Price (per the Boston Herald’s Evan Drellich) spoke optimistically, but added that if he were younger, doctors would have reccomended surgery on the elbow. 

From Drellich: 

He offered nothing in the way of detail, however, when it comes to the actual injury — and said that if he was younger, 22 or 23 years old, he'd have gone under the knife. For what surgery, exactly, is unclear.

'It feels good. It’s been getting better every day,' Price said. 'Kind of surprised that it’s responded the way that it has. If you asked me a week ago, I’d have said I felt OK. And I feel really good right now. Today is the best it’s felt. Just everyday activities. I don’t feel anything in there right now. So that’s coming after two straight days of throwing baseballs into the net so it’s responded really well.

'They said if I was 22 or 23 they'd have told me to go have surgery. ... I've gone through this. This is something I feel like happens every spring training. It's those first four to five weeks of spring training that I feel like I go through this every single year, and this year was just a little bit worse. You know, my arm got a little bit more stiff, and that's why we took the precautionary actions that we took. That was the right thing to do.

'It doesn't matter if it sends up red flags, whatever it is. Whenever it's dealing with something like that, you want to know what's going on in there and that's what we did. If we didn't go do that, there's no place, or there's no telling where I'd have been mentally because that was a lot different for me even though it calmed down a lot. At the end of it, I realized this was, it was really no different than what I usually go through in spring training, that I expect to go through in spring training.'

Price, 31, is entering the second year of a seven-year, $217 million contract signed last offseason. 

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