Cubs left-hander Brailyn Márquez underwent debridement surgery on his throwing shoulder last month, vice president of player development Jared Banner told reporters (including Meghan Montemurro of the Chicago Tribune). He’ll miss the remainder of the 2022 season.
It’s a second consecutive lost season for Márquez, who hasn’t thrown a pitch in an affiliated game since 2020. That was a lone appearance during which he recorded two outs in relief to make his major league debut. He otherwise spent the abbreviated season at the alternate training site, and he’s lost each of the past two years to injury.
Before the health woes set him off track, Márquez was regarded as one of the sport’s most promising arms. He placed among Baseball America’s top 100 prospects entering both the 2020 and ’21 campaigns, showing mid-rotation or better upside when healthy. Márquez averaged around 98 MPH on his heater during his lone big league outing, flashing the power arm that led BA to place a top-of-the-scale grade on his fastball.
Márquez is still only 23 years old, so there’s a fair bit of time for him to made good on his promise if he can put the shoulder woes behind him. He’s spent the past two seasons on the minor league injured list, so he’s collected all of three days of major league service to date. He’s continued to count for a spot on Chicago’s 40-man roster throughout that time, and he’ll remain on the roster while on the minor league IL. Chicago could elect to recall Márquez and place him on the major league 60-day IL at any time to clear a roster spot, but doing would require paying him at the prorated portion of the $700K MLB minimum salary.
Hope the poor dude doesn’t end his career with a 67.50 ERA
Still a better than all of us! He got to spend 21 days in the show. Twenty-one greatest days of his life. Where he never handled his own luggage in the show. Someone else carried his bags. He hit white balls for batting practice. Ballparks were like cathedrals. The hotels all had room service and the women all had long legs and brains.”,
As always, we await developments.
Glad he still has time left being only 23
Call him up, put him on major league IL. Free up a spot and pay the man some money.
I was thinking about that with Max Meyer the other day – not saying he did this, but I’m sure it’s happened: you know you have an injury barking at you, but you’re still able to perform decently well in the minor leagues.. you wait until you get called up to make the injury known and then get paid MLB $ because you’re on the IL instead of getting minor league $ on the IL there.
Sigh. Both him and alzolay showed some promise too.
Is Alzolay out for the season too?
I’m not sure. I haven’t heard a peep about him all year.
Yes, I believe that Alzolay has been out since spring training. Probably the rest of the year too.
No longer a prospect..remove him from the 40 man roster.
The “broke” Cubs won’t spend the extra money putting him on the major league 60 day DL. Ownership cares more about every penny than they do about the product they put on the field
That’s the problem. The cubs are far from broke. The owner just doesn’t want Jed and Tom to spend his money.
Tom is the owner lolz
Ted Cruz is the owner.
Career over before it even begins just like Alex Reyes.
I was never really impressed with Marquez anyway. When he pitched he always looked out of sync like he had no plan so I’m not surprised he had arm problems. Davis coming back this year is good news as he got injured in Spring Training and it wasn’t helpful that it was so short because of the lockout. He tried to play through it and ended up hurting himself worse. Lesson learned. I hope. Let him come back and play in Iowa the rest of the year whatever it is and hopefully he has a regular off season and comes to camp ready to go and we’ll see where he’s at. The Cubs have about 4 LH P’s who are better than Marquez on his best day now anyway, so no big loss IMO.