It's also his non-throwing shoulder, so the cannon should still be there.
But how will this affect his hitting? 
I thought about that: left shoulder, though. Hitting might be the trouble...especially hitting left handed. He would use his left shoulder as his drive shoulder, just like LaRoche. He ought to be OK hitting right-handed.
I hit lefty and throw right-handed...having watched Mickey Vernon on TV. Killed my right shoulder throwing fly balls to my Little League team...many years earlier, I'd pulled a tendon loose inside my right arm...showing off, no kidding, in The President's Physical Fitness Test in the "softball throw for distance". Something started by President Kennedy. A cold February day, and I didn't bother to loosen up...was in a mixed grade gym class, a skinny 10th grader in gym with seniors, who included a bunch of guys from the -- Northwestern -- football team. I knew how to throw, and they knew how to trample 10 graders, so I was determined to out-throw them. By the five or sixth throw, I could barely lift my arm. Dope. After that, I threw only with wrist and fingers -- "short arming" the ball. At least it convinced me that studying would be more important than playing serious baseball.
Maybe Espi should stop hitting LH, work on his eye-baseball-hitting coordination as a RH hitter?
