DENVER — In a season the place the checklist of injured pitchers for the Arizona Diamondbacks simply retains rising, the franchise was dealt much more dangerous information on Friday.
Reliever A.J. Puk, who final pitched on April 17, shall 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 in need of 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 Area earlier than the Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies started a three-game collection.
“If the ligament continues to be in place, they will not change the ligament,” Lovullo stated. “They will simply do this exterior bracing. If the ligament is broken and they should put a brand new ligament in there, yeah, it is going to be official Tommy John. Proper now, they will go in there and check out it after which see what they should have accomplished.”
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 checklist of Diamondbacks pitchers who’ve missed time and can proceed to take action this season.
