"It’s gonna be long, it’s gonna be hard, but I’m ready for it. I’ve made peace with it myself.” The post Red Sox P Tanner Houck reacts to news that he needs Tommy John surgery appeared first on Boston.

Red Sox pitcher Tanner Houck needs Tommy John surgery, but he is ready to attack the rehab and recovery and get back on the mound.

Houck had non-surgical alternatives available, including platelet-rich plasma and stem-cell treatment, to try to fix his arm. But those would have merely been “delaying the inevitable,” he said.