Jordan Romano offers advice to Brandon Barriera amidst major Injury.

Brandon Barriera's injury, along with those to fellow pitching prospects Ricky Tiedemann and Landen Maroudis cast a bit of a cloud over the minor-league season's start for the Blue Jays.

When you're first starting out, you have all these dreams, like we're going to go low-A, high-A, have great years, just keep climbing the ladder � you really don't even think about a big injury at that point, that's not built into your timeline. So when it happened to me, it was a huge shock. I was feeling great in spring, elbow never hurt in my life and then one pitch, you're on the operating table the next week. There's no way around it, it's tough. It's a year long, there a lot of times going into the facility just to rehab, you're not even throwing yet, you'll think, like, is it worth it, is this what I signed up for?

"I like letting guys know it's not going to be easy,» says Romano, «but it'll be good in the end.»