DENVER — In a season the place the record of injured pitchers for the Arizona Diamondbacks simply retains rising, the franchise was dealt much more unhealthy information on Friday.
Reliever A.J. Puk, who final pitched on April 17, might be out for the rest of this season and maybe past after having his left elbow surgically repaired on Friday. The 30-year-old southpaw was acquired from the Miami Marlins on the 2024 MLB commerce deadline and has a 1.78 ERA in 35.1 innings over 38 video games since coming to the desert.
Arizona supervisor Torey Lovullo stopped wanting saying Puk was having Tommy John surgical procedure because the standing of the ligament within the elbow was nonetheless in query on the time he met with the media at Coors Subject earlier than the Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies started a three-game sequence.
“If the ligament continues to be in place, they will not exchange the ligament,” Lovullo stated. “They’re going to simply do this exterior bracing. If the ligament is broken and they should put a brand new ligament in there, yeah, will probably be official Tommy John. Proper now, they are going to go in there and try it after which see what they should have carried out.”
Lovullo added that he believed it was simply Puk’s ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) that was in query and never the flexor tendon.
Whereas Puk has been out of motion since mid-April, the information provides one other layer to what has been an extremely lengthy record of Diamondbacks pitchers who’ve missed time and can proceed to take action this season.
