26th
April
2007
Checking in on Doug Brocail
posted in 2007 season, players |You might remember Doug Brocail. He was a pretty decent reliever for four seasons in Detroit, 1997-2000. He now pitches with the Padres, but in the years inbetween, Brocail could have died with heart problems.
Yahoo! Sports MLB columnist Jeff Passan has the full story of his ailments and his comeback.
Sphere ItBrocail turns 40 in three weeks, though he’s already celebrated one birthday this year: March 11, the day his life changed.
Following a spring-training game in Peoria, Ariz., he had shortness of breath and attributed it to his asthma. Doctors plopped him on a treadmill to test that theory. At 6-foot-5, 250 pounds, Brocail labored. After the results of an echocardiogram, the doctors apologized. The stress test could have killed him.
