{"id":69841,"date":"2024-04-04T14:48:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=69841"},"modified":"2024-04-04T14:48:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T18:48:58","slug":"exciting-young-marlins-pitcher-out-for-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/04\/exciting-young-marlins-pitcher-out-for-the-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting Young Marlins Pitcher Out for the Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young 2024 MLB season has been an absolute disaster for the Miami Marlins, and it&#8217;s only getting worse. On Wednesday, Miami officially fell to 0-7 just hours before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal\/status\/1775657223727030373\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ken Rosenthal reported<\/a> on the possibility of a sell-off at the deadline. Well, more demoralizing news came out on Thursday, as the team announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/perezeu02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Eury P\u00e9rez<\/a> will undergo Tommy John surgery on Monday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Tommy John surgery for Eury P\u00e9rez on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Marlins?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Marlins<\/a> announce<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Christina De Nicola (@CDeNicola13) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CDeNicola13\/status\/1775933253158891554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"Styles__StoryPartContainer-sc-1mfrmm0-0 groqnz story-part markdown\">\n<div class=\"Styles__MarkdownContainer-dxqlie-0 eJdqRG\">\n<p>The surgery will sideline P\u00e9rez for the rest of this season and parts of 2025. The 20-year-old first experienced elbow soreness in the middle of March. Testing initially revealed inflammation in his right elbow, but no structural damage.<\/p>\n<p>While the team knew the ailment would require P\u00e9rez to start the season on the injured list, surgery seemed to be off the table. However, P\u00e9rez will go under the knife less than a month after first experiencing discomfort.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Styles__StoryPartContainer-sc-1mfrmm0-0 groqnz story-part markdown\">\n<div class=\"Styles__MarkdownContainer-dxqlie-0 eJdqRG\">\n<h2>Eury P\u00e9rez to Undergo Tommy John Surgery<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Styles__StoryPartContainer-sc-1mfrmm0-0 groqnz story-part markdown\">\n<div class=\"Styles__MarkdownContainer-dxqlie-0 eJdqRG\">\n<p>A top prospect in the Marlins system, P\u00e9rez made his major league debut in 2023 and shined. The lanky right tossed 91 1\/3 innings across 19 starts and posted a 3.15 ERA (142 ERA+). Per Statcast, P\u00e9rez ranked among the best in the game in metrics like Whiff, Chase, and Strikeout percentage.<\/p>\n<p>While many young flamethrowers lack command and\/or secondary pitches, P\u00e9rez succeeded by having a good feel for multiple solid pitches. He paired his high-9o&#8217;s four-seamer with effective sliders and curveballs while showing above-average command.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Top-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Marlins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Marlins<\/a> prospect Eury P\u00e9rez brings the heat for MLB strikeout No. 1 at 98.1 mph! \ud83d\udd25 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R4HMDO8udm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/R4HMDO8udm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB Pipeline (@MLBPipeline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBPipeline\/status\/1657155636197752832?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 12, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Young pitchers with electric stuff like P\u00e9rez typically strike a lot of batters out while simultaneously lacking command and control. This was not the case with P\u00e9rez, as he paired a great strikeout rate with an average walk rate.<\/p>\n<p>That said, pitchers, especially hard throwers, are as fragile as ever. So far in his brief career, P\u00e9rez is no different. Prior to his current elbow injury, P\u00e9rez missed time in 2023 with left SI joint inflammation.<\/p>\n<h3>Injuries Throughout The Marlins Starting Rotation<\/h3>\n<p>P\u00e9rez will have Tommy John surgery around a year after his mentor and fellow Marlins ace <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/a\/alcansa01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sandy Alc\u00e1ntara<\/a>. Plus, Miami experienced <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/13\/marlins-cabrera-shoulder-impingement\/\" target=\"_self\">injuries to starters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/garrebr01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Braxton Garrett<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cabreed02.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward Cabrera<\/a> in spring training. The Marlins hoped that P\u00e9rez would return mid-season and take another step forward. Unfortunately, the fish will have to rely on their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/15\/miami-marlins-rotation-2024\/\" target=\"_self\">makeshift rotation<\/a> for longer than they hoped.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo: \u00a9 Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The young 2024 MLB season has been an absolute disaster for the Miami Marlins, and it&#8217;s only getting worse. On Wednesday, Miami officially fell to 0-7 just hours before Ken Rosenthal reported on the possibility of a sell-off at the deadline. Well, more demoralizing news came out on Thursday, as the team announced that Eury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4683,"featured_media":69862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1071,35],"tags":[4188,3365,1818],"class_list":["post-69841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marlins","category-mlb","category-news","tag-braxton-garrett","tag-edward-cabrera","tag-sandy-alcantara"],"modified_by":"Matt Graves","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4683"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}