I don't actually know how big the knife is. Now that I think about it, it's probably a small knife. But regardless of the size of the knife, he's going to be out for a while, as he will undergo Tommy John surgery.

It won't have much effect on the 2018 A's, because he was ineffective and then hurt before this announcement, and to be brutally honest it probably won't have much effect on the 2019 or any other version of the A's, either, because it's just not clear he's a major league–caliber pitcher. But it will have an effect, a massive one, on Gossett, and so all we can really do is wish him well.