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.
Wow
Wasn’t it reports of his knee? At least he got a no no and a World Series ring prior to this
Right!?!
I mean…he’ll probably pitch again.
Almost no pitcher with two TJs has come back from the second one successfully.
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.
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.
Pretty cool stuff CCCTL. Thanks for explaining this complicated medical procedure in Layman’s terms.
Awesome! (Not for Jarrod you know what I mean..)
Madson missed 3 consecutive seasons and is 36 and throws 95
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.
Both Corbin and Hudson were starters and are now one-inning relievers. Ryan Madson has had TJ surgery just once.
Are you talking about Patrick Corbin? He’s only had 1 TJ and is a starter
Are you talking about Patrick Corbin? If so, he’s had just 1 TJ and is a starter
Oops. Sorry. Yeah, Corbin just had the surgery once and is now a bad starter.
Maybe
The stakes go up after more than one tj
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.
Very short list for productive 2-time TJ survivors.
Sounds like the New York Mets training & medical staff have found new employment.
I bet O’s wouldn’t passed him on a Physical but most don’t right ?
See ya in 2019
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.
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.
They kind of had no choice, if you recall…
Tough though when you lose the face of the franchise in an accident like Fernandez’s. They were almost a playoff team with him
Tyler Kolax will be back there 1 st round draft pick from Texas a H S pitcher
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 )
Hits just keep on coming.
Donnie Baseball is going to be ridding the unemployment soon
This is very surprising. He might not pitch until 2019. Time to bring back Henderson Alvarez.
The Baseball Gods are Punishing the Marlins for something ! Could it be Jeff ?
It is useful to mention a pitcher’s age in an article about him having Tommy John.
The player’s name is a link. Click on it.
Who has time for that?
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.
That sucks, I feel bad for him, but hey, he can always look at his bank account to cheer himself up.
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.
This stinks for the Marlins because he’s got a couple no-hitters