Going from one of the top prospects in a deep Red Sox farm system, to the hospital, not exactly a step in the right direction for Ryan Westmoreland. Local 21 year old product from Portsmouth, Rhode Island had a cell mass on his brain stem that was bleeding onto his brain. This caused Ryan to lose nearly all his vision and go deaf in one ear. He describes it a little in the video posted below. So he had surgery to correct the problem, a surgery, like a lot of surgeries, that had no guarantees he would even survive. He did survive, and after the surgery started to regain his senses, and his motor skills. Obviously the first thing on he and his families minds were getting him healthy and living a normal life again, but when they realized that was going to happen, it turned to baseball once again. This man is the definition of resilient. If a lot of people were to have brain surgery and have trouble with the things Ryan struggled with at first, they may have given up on baseball. Not this guy, even when he struggled at the game he was once a can’t miss prospect in, he still has hope he’s going to make it to the big leagues, and he is still working hard to make that happen. He is currently in the Red Sox minor league system, but I hope to see him at Fenway real soon. You have to root for a guy like this. Keep an eye on him, he’s got what it takes, I believe in him.
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