EVERETT — Jonny Farmelo felt the stabbing pain as soon as he swung the bat.

The 20-year-old Everett AquaSox outfielder thought he did something to his oblique, as he struggled to breathe. Playing as the designated hitter for Everett against the Hillsboro Hops on May 23, Farmelo exited the game and found out it wasn’t an oblique injury, but instead a stress reaction in his rib.

Less than a month after returning to game action from an ACL tear he sustained in June 2024, Farmelo would be heading back to the injured list. Only this time, he didn’t know for how long.

He was presented with a wide range of possible recovery times. It could be as little as two weeks or last as long as two months, and it depended on factors entirely out of his control. In his case, the bone recovery time wound u

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