Sports are going to have to take a long hard look at the state of human augmentation. Will they continue to be prudes and restrict the kind of enhancements that other countries will be letting their players get away with, or will they start to allow more and more ‘player betterments’. It won’t just be big sports like baseball and football either, bowling could benefit from a more powerful swing, pistol matches done by 10/20 vision would improve scores, the applications are endless. Just remember, the more the money that is involved, the more you will see this talked about.
To date, baseball pitchers have opted for the surgery only after suffering ligament damage, but elective-enhancement surgery is getting inevitable. And it will show up in other sports as well.
In fact, some players have already undergone laser eye surgery as it has been shown that “players coming off eye surgery are likely to see substantial improvements in batting average and power.”