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Edinson Volquez To Undergo Tommy John Surgery

By Steve Adams | August 1, 2017 at 7:51pm CDT

Marlins right-hander Edinson Volquez will undergo Tommy John surgery on Friday, president of baseball operations Michael Hill announced to reporters (Twitter link via Tim Healey of the South Florida Sun Sentinel). This will mark the second Tommy John procedure of Volquez’s career.

Marlins skipper Don Mattingly announced earlier today that Volquez would miss the remainder of the season and suggested that there was more at play than the knee tendinitis that had sidelined him since early July. However, there’d been no indication to this point that Volquez was dealing with any sort of arm injury, making the news of Tommy John surgery a fairly stunning development.

The timing of the injury is especially unfortunate for Volquez, as a fairly standard 12- to 15-month recovery timeline would keep him out of action not only for the balance of the 2017 season but also for most, if not all of the 2018 campaign as well.

Miami inked Volquez to a two-year, $22MM contract this past offseason due largely to his durability. From 2012-16, Volquez averaged 32 starts and 187 innings per season, and he hadn’t even been on the disabled list since his previous Tommy John surgery, which came back in 2009 as a member of the Reds. Volquez is still owed $16.05MM from now through the end of the 2018 campaign — $3.05MM for the remainder of the 2017 season in addition to a $13MM salary next year.

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  1. padresfan

    4 years ago

    Wow
    Wasn’t it reports of his knee? At least he got a no no and a World Series ring prior to this

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    • Ully

      4 years ago

      Right!?!

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    • ReverieDays

      4 years ago

      I mean…he’ll probably pitch again.

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      • davidcoonce74

        4 years ago

        Almost no pitcher with two TJs has come back from the second one successfully.

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        • davidcoonce74

          4 years ago

          Jason Frasor has pitched the most games of any pitcher after two TJs. Others: Medlen, Beachy, Rijo, Jarrod Parker, Corbin, Soria, Brian Wilson, capuano, Lance Carter, Randy Wolf, V Zambrano – you get the point. The few that came back did so as specialist relievers.

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        • CCCTL

          4 years ago

          Jarrod Parker’s second TJ was probably *too* successful, in that the new ligament later ripped apart its bone attachment. Still a question as to whether he ever pitches on a major-league level again.

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        • xabial

          4 years ago

          Pretty cool stuff CCCTL. Thanks for explaining this complicated medical procedure in Layman’s terms.

          Awesome! (Not for Jarrod you know what I mean..)

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        • twiker

          4 years ago

          Madson missed 3 consecutive seasons and is 36 and throws 95

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        • Jon_Snow

          4 years ago

          I know nothing but I can only recall one Corbin tj and Daniel Hudson had back to back tj surgeries and he’s been healthy since.

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        • davidcoonce74

          4 years ago

          Both Corbin and Hudson were starters and are now one-inning relievers. Ryan Madson has had TJ surgery just once.

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        • dwhitt3

          4 years ago

          Are you talking about Patrick Corbin? He’s only had 1 TJ and is a starter

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        • dwhitt3

          4 years ago

          Are you talking about Patrick Corbin? If so, he’s had just 1 TJ and is a starter

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        • davidcoonce74

          4 years ago

          Oops. Sorry. Yeah, Corbin just had the surgery once and is now a bad starter.

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      • padresfan

        4 years ago

        Maybe
        The stakes go up after more than one tj

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      • gocincy

        4 years ago

        We will see how he returns. The success rate after a second TJ surgery is dramatically worse than after the first surgery. Something like 70% of pitchers cannot regain their form after the second procedure.

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      • RunDMC

        4 years ago

        Very short list for productive 2-time TJ survivors.

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    • scjohn92

      4 years ago

      Sounds like the New York Mets training & medical staff have found new employment.

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    • thebare

      4 years ago

      I bet O’s wouldn’t passed him on a Physical but most don’t right ?

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  2. Zac19082016

    4 years ago

    See ya in 2019

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  3. nmendoza44

    4 years ago

    So Chen has barely pitched for them since being signed and Volquez barely had a successful run for them, Miami should probably stop trying to make free agent splashes for their rotation.

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    • padresfan

      4 years ago

      They got to sell tickets. They needed an ace type pitcher. At one point in time he was an ace type pitcher. They were trying to complete.

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    • GabeOfThrones

      4 years ago

      They kind of had no choice, if you recall…

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    • deal1122

      4 years ago

      Tough though when you lose the face of the franchise in an accident like Fernandez’s. They were almost a playoff team with him

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    • thebare

      4 years ago

      Tyler Kolax will be back there 1 st round draft pick from Texas a H S pitcher

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  4. formerlyz

    4 years ago

    This is what happens when you wait too long to trade everyone. They all get hurt. A nice parting shot from Loria with the Hech deal, and then not moving anyone, when we need to retool

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    • Steve Adams

      4 years ago

      Volquez has been out since early July. You can’t blame the Marlins for waiting to trade him when half the teams in the league weren’t even sure if they were buying yet when Volquez initially hit the disabled list.

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      • formerlyz

        4 years ago

        The start after the no hitter was when he should have been traded. He had a good run going for like 4 starts around then. Season was over in May. He isn’t the only one either. I’m not saying he would have been moved for premium prospects, but he still should have been moved, and i think someone would have traded for him at fair enough value that it would still make sense for the Marlins. I think a few teams had injuries then as well

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        • Steve Adams

          4 years ago

          That presumes that there were teams looking to take on a pitcher still owed about $19MM over the next 1.5 seasons in early June and/or that throwing a no-hitter would’ve somehow convinced clubs to part with notable Minor League talent.

          If you want to say the Marlins should’ve been more open to trading Straily (or that they never should’ve acquired him in the first place), I’ll agree with that. But there wasn’t going to be much of a market for Volquez in early June.

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        • formerlyz

          4 years ago

          I’m saying that everyone not named Stanton, Yelich, or Realmuto should have either been moved or should have been shopped. Like I said, I’m not looking for notable guys back for Volquez. Getting rid of his salary and getting a mid level guy and maybe another low-end guy still would have added talent to the terrible farm system.

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        • formerlyz

          4 years ago

          Actually, I’d even eat some money on a few guys, which they’d likely have to…but it’s the Marlins, so that doesn’t happen

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        • MafiaBass

          4 years ago

          Interesting that you mention the no-no. Has anyone else noticed that throwing a no-hitter essentially ends a lot of careers? Schilling was garbage after his 8 2/3 inning no-no in 08. Bud Smith, anyone? Clay Bucchholz couldn’t stay healthy after his.

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  5. xabial

    4 years ago

    I believe this should be called pulling a “Branson Arroyo”

    2 Durable pitchers signed, eventually got TJsurgery that Knocked them out for the remainder of their contracts. (min. 1 yr left on their contracts )

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  6. LA91744

    4 years ago

    Hits just keep on coming.

    Donnie Baseball is going to be ridding the unemployment soon

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  7. Marlins93

    4 years ago

    This is very surprising. He might not pitch until 2019. Time to bring back Henderson Alvarez.

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  8. William

    4 years ago

    The Baseball Gods are Punishing the Marlins for something ! Could it be Jeff ?

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  9. cxcx

    4 years ago

    It is useful to mention a pitcher’s age in an article about him having Tommy John.

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    • outinleftfield

      4 years ago

      The player’s name is a link. Click on it.

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      • jleve618

        4 years ago

        Who has time for that?

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  10. stretch123

    4 years ago

    I doubt he will be able to come back next season. Maybe in September if the Marlins somehow manage to make the playoffs next season… Marlins have Straily, Conley and Urena for 2018, maybe Chen, but I think they should sign a guy like Jaime Garcia for 2018 and give Dillon Peters as well as O’grady a chance again in 2018.

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  11. frankiegxiii

    4 years ago

    That sucks, I feel bad for him, but hey, he can always look at his bank account to cheer himself up.

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  12. Wrek305

    4 years ago

    Damn that sucks. Always liked him since his rangers days. Shame he went to such a horrible team. Yet he has the only no hitter for the Year so far.

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  13. Nickaalmas

    4 years ago

    This stinks for the Marlins because he’s got a couple no-hitters

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