Welcome to the latest seminar on sports medicine for dummies, with the dummies played, unsurprisingly, by Toronto baseball writers and the visiting professor’s role filled by Blue Jays head trainer Nikki Huffman.



The sportswriting gig requires its practitioners to delve with some regularity into the realm of wounded bones, muscles and ligaments. To convey the details to readers with a degree of accuracy, we must rely on what team officials tell us, which is often esoteric and vague, and sometimes deliberately so. That can lead us to seek help from medical websites, which can be a precarious business, at best.



So it was refreshing and useful Friday afternoon to gather in manager Charlie Montoyo’s office to listen to and question Huffman about the anatomical nuances of Ryan Borucki’s elbow, a hinge of considerable value to pitcher and ballclub.



Blue Jays fans are familiar with Borucki’s painful backstory. An up-and-coming big-league...