After longer than expected recovery, Twins starter Mick Abel nears return

PHOENIX — Mick Abel never expected that when he first spoke up about the pain he was feeling in his posterior elbow/triceps area, it would be an injury that would take multiple months to resolve. The way everyone was talking about it, he said, made him think it was going to be a two- or three-week thing before he was back on the mound. That was back in April, and that timeline quickly went out ...