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Rays’ Colin Poche Undergoes Tommy John Surgery

By Steve Adams | July 30, 2020 at 11:51am CDT

JULY 30: Poche has indeed undergone Tommy John surgery, the Rays announced.

JULY 21: Rays lefty Colin Poche has been diagnosed with a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow and will miss the 2020 season, the team announced. Tommy John surgery has been recommended for the 26-year-old Poche, who has been placed on the 45-day injured list. Tampa Bay selected veteran catcher Kevan Smith to the big league roster in a corresponding move.

The loss of Poche is a tough blow for the Tampa Bay bullpen. While last season’s 4.70 ERA doesn’t exactly stand out as an impressive mark. Poche’s secondary numbers were all considerably better. The southpaw averaged 12.5 strikeouts and 3.3 walks per nine innings pitched with a 4.08 FIP in 51 2/3 frames.

In spite of that unsightly ERA, Poche overwhelmed both left- and right-handed hitters, yielding just a .167/.276/.348 slash to lefties and a .190/.277/.388 line to righties. A 67.6 percent strand rate that was vastly worse than his career mark in the minors, and Statcast pegged Poche in the 91st percentile or better in terms of swinging-strike rate and his opponents’ expected batting average, slugging percentage and weight on-base average. A breakout season for the talented lefty seemed eminently possible, but he could now be sidelined into late 2021 — if not all the way into the 2022 season.

Poche will get a year of service time in 2020 as he rehabs on the 45-day IL, and he’ll need to be placed on the 60-day IL to open the 2021 season as well. If he is indeed out until 2022, he may be arbitration-eligible as a Super Two player by the time he’s able to return to the mound, although with 114 days under his belt at the moment, he’d be a very borderline case for Super Two status.

As for the 32-year-old Smith, he’ll likely make the club’s roster as a backup catcher. Smith has seen time in each of the past four seasons — 2016-18 with the White Sox and 2019 with the Angels — hitting a combined .272/.318/.381 along the way. That’s pretty solid production from behind the plate, but Smith also owns a woeful 14 percent caught stealing rate and has posted sub-par framing numbers as well.

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  1. DarkSide830

    6 months ago

    thats rough. good for Smith though, i think he is a very good piece at C

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  2. matt4baseball

    6 months ago

    Big Suprise! How do you blow out your elbow after 17 months of down time? He only throws at 92 as well? Seems no one could hit Poche’s fastball even though he threw it 90% of the time. Anyway the Rays are stacked with pitchers, especially lefthanders.

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    • Steve Nebraska

      6 months ago

      It’s almost like the stress that you put on your UCL by throwing a baseball 90+ mph is enough to tear it at anytime…

      Also, his spin rate is in the elite of the elite’s. Has that classic “Rise” on his ball.

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  3. Bob Lablah

    6 months ago

    This blows….starting off just like last year with TJ’s.

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  4. RaysFanTL

    6 months ago

    Not good. I Feel terrible for Poche :( he was supposed to be a big part of the bullpen this year. I was worried about our bullpen after we traded Pagan and now our only lefties are Alvarado and Loup who are both pretty big question marks.. Let’s hope this we got all the pitching injuries out of the way.

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  5. bighiggy

    6 months ago

    The cardinals have Brett cecil you can have. Lefty and you can have him for probably nothing.

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  6. HaloHonk4Life

    6 months ago

    Not the Angels fault

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  7. Cey Hey

    6 months ago

    Frank Jobe Surgery, not Tommy John.

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    • Striket

      6 months ago

      Kerlan-Jobe surgery. Had mine done by Dr. Yocum in 2000.

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  8. TJECK109

    6 months ago

    If you need a sucky reliever…. you can have anyone and I mean anyone from the Pirates pen

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  9. metsfan68

    6 months ago

    See you in 2022

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  10. jim stem

    6 months ago

    Can’t any pitcher under 30 avoid TJ surgery?

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  11. HaloHonk4Life

    6 months ago

    It’s a left handers right of passage

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