Blue Jays pitching prospect Eric Pardinho underwent Tommy John surgery earlier today and will miss the entire 2020 season as a result, tweets Baseball America’s Ben Badler. Toronto signed Brazilian-born righty for a $1.4MM bonus back in 2017.
It’s a discouraging blow for Pardinho, who missed much of the 2019 season due to elbow troubles but was able to avoid going under the knife. Pardinho, who entered the 2019 season as one of the game’s Top 100 prospects according to both Baseball America and MLB.com, was limited to just 37 2/3 frames this past season. He did, however, post a sterling 2.15 ERA with a 35-to-16 K/BB ratio when healthy enough to pitch.
Pardinho is just 19 years of age and has yet to pitch beyond Class-A, but the news of surgery on the heels of an injury-plagued 2019 campaign means that the highly touted righty will lose nearly two full years of development. He’ll return for the 2021 season, assuming his recovery goes well, which will prove to be a pivotal year; Pardinho will need to be added to the Jays’ 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 Draft in the 2021-22 offseason.
This sucks. Hopefully he bounces back, he’s a big piece of this teams future.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!
Ditto.
Sorry to hear, but better now than in a pennant race in the big leagues in five years. Hopefully this will take care of his injury issues and he can come back strong in 2021.
19 is too young for Tommy John. His body hasn’t filled out yet. This does not bode well for the future.
Osuna had the same surgery at around the same age. He still looks pretty good!
57% of all Tommy John surgeries are performed on kids between the ages of 15 – 19…. The surgery has a success rate approaching 90%…. So no, 19 is not too young to receive the surgery. And, outside of the 10% chance the surgery is a failure, Pardinho will have a 90% chance of returning to his full potential, albeit a year (year and a half) later than originally anticipated.
Those stats are garbage.
Do 90% you mention go on to pitch at an elite level in MLB? no.
What a load of nonsense.
no jimmer but far more make the pros that have the surgery than dont…
Tae, how many of those are elite? Not many.
The real point is, at 19, his chances are not 90% to become an elite pitcher in the big leagues.
The Jays need healthy top 100 guys.
no but his chances no longer diminish like they once did. the success rate is simply too high to ignore
They’ll need healthy top 500 guys too.
Not going to see a 26man roster full of top 100 guys right?
Interesting that Osuna is the comparison, does Pardinho get moved to relief upon return?
Does Luzardo stay in relief with the A’s or does he get stretched out this year? If he gives the A’s over 100 innings of electric pitching this season, I will have extra reason for hope over Pardinho.
Maybe Giolito takes another step forward this season and we can have extra hope for Pardinho becoming an effective piece as a starter.
Some good comparisons to watch this year as we’re stuck wondering.
Good points filthy.
I would add Julian Merryweather to the list.
Ahahah sadly we’ll have more than this year to add to this list as we’re stuck wondering. 3years I’ll guess. Optimistically.
At 5’10” and 155 LBS there was a pretty solid chance he was gonna end up in the pen anyway. Hopefully this clears up the elbow issues and he can get back to throwing that electric stuff. High leverage reliever I would think, tho.
You can’t contradict Jimmertree…he has #psychicscoutseyes!
Ahh terry, my padwin. Thanks for the shout-out!
He’s also a moron. No point in trying to reason with him
Ducey, there is never any reason to call anyone a name or insult them personally in these pages..
Please keep it professional.
#glaucomagetsyoueventually
His probability wasn’t 90% to be an ace before the surgery, Jimmer.
You’re spinning a wheel of hit garbage, per usual.
HOT HOT Garbage
Considering how high this kid has been on the Jays prospect list which included Vlad and Bo, he was projected to be a TOR guy. Every comment you type is garbage. At least you’re consistent.
Jimmystump,,,,,,the next time you compliment anything positive out of the BJ organization,,,,,,,,keep it to yourself so we all don’t get blown away and think you’re on more crack than now
Snake, there is never any reason to call anyone a name or insult them personally in these pages..
Please keep it professional.
Jimmer since most of the people here don’t have any baseball intellect I will bring real talk to this discussion. The village idiots of Ducey, TerryM, Taejon and Assume really can’t hold a baseball conversation.
You said something here, however, that bodes well for this young man; he hasn’t filled out yet. More likely an injury will occur if your body isn’t prepared to handle the rigorous workload. When his body fills out, he will be stronger than every before, no?
I’m not here to say he has a bright future nor will I say his career is over. But he has time to bust his tail, get himself back on-track to reach the majors by 22 or 23. This injury, although horrific, may be the best thing for him to face and overcome in his young career.
You’re really smart. Do you watch every game?
You’re not, and darn close to every game.
Guests, what you said.
tinstaapp
yikes. guess all those people worried about his usage in the WBC were correct.
Blue Jays pls sign puig and jose Bautista
Blue Jays pls sign puig and jose Bautista
Puig yes. He would be better than most of the Jays current outfielders.
trading for Joc would even be better
Yes deal for an expiring contract. Verrrrrry smart. Unless the Jays are giving up Grichuk, hard pass and a bad idea.
Hernandez out performed Puig last year…. don’t need 2 of the same guys…
Thats rough. The jays need Pearson, Groshans and 1 of woods-Richardson or him to pan out
I agree murph,,,,,but jimmytee will set us straight on that and point out which of those were a good pick up and what their potential is,,,,,,which will be notta,,unless the jays trade one of them
According to jimmer, bo bichette is not a quality mlb player… so consider that take. Lol
lol… didn’t he say he has weak wrists and a weak core. OMG this guy is classic. This guy is a legend in a lot of jays groups for his pure stupidity.
Manoak, Kloffenstein….