| Typicality: | 0.600 |
| Saliency: | 0.582 |
| in the offseason | 10 | temporal |
| least once in their career | 3 | temporal |
| to repair their ulnar collateral ligament | 2 | purpose |
| pitcher → undergo → tommy john surgery | 15 |
| pitcher → had → tommy john surgery | 13 |
| pitcher → have → tommy john surgery | 9 |
| pitcher → need → tommy john surgery | 6 |
| pitcher → undergone → tommy john surgery | 4 |
| pitcher → require → tommy john surgery | 4 |
| pitcher → get → tommy john surgery | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.277 | 0.609 | 0.113 |
| Raw frequency | 54 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.582 |
| Modifier score | 0.811 |
| Perplexity | 37.510 |