{"id":98230,"date":"2025-03-25T19:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=98230"},"modified":"2025-03-25T19:48:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T23:48:15","slug":"pirates-jared-jones-injured-list-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2025\/03\/25\/pirates-jared-jones-injured-list-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates to Shut Down Jared Jones for Six Weeks with Elbow Discomfort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=jonesja09,jones-013jar&amp;search=Jared+Jones&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jared Jones<\/a> will be placed on the injured list with elbow discomfort. The good news is that Tuesday\u2019s tests revealed no ligament damage, and therefore, surgery won\u2019t be required. He won\u2019t throw for six weeks. Noah Hiles of the <em>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette<\/em> was the first to report this news that Pirates fans had been anxiously awaiting since Jones skipped his last spring start.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sources: No torn ligaments, no surgery for Jared Jones. He will go six weeks without throwing. Overall encouraging news for the Pirates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Noah Hiles (@_NoahHiles) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_NoahHiles\/status\/1904667717409341940?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Pirates Will Place Jared Jones on Injured List<\/h2>\n<p>Last year, Jones surprised the baseball world by <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/25\/jared-jones-pirates-opening-day-roster\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">breaking camp<\/a> with the big club as a rookie after a splendid spring that was hard to ignore. He was the Pirates&#8217; No. 3 prospect at the time. The fearless right-hander began the regular season with a bang, becoming just the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/24\/pirates-rookie-pitcher-jared-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">fourth pitcher<\/a> to register seven strikeouts in his first four games since 1893. After his July 3 start, he was 5-6 with a 3.56 ERA while holding opponents to a .220\/.283\/.398 slash line. Unfortunately, he was <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/07\/04\/jared-jones-injured-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">placed on the IL<\/a> with a lat strain the next day. Jones returned on August 27, but his six remaining starts didn\u2019t go as well. He finished at 6-8 with a 4.14 ERA and 1.192 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the place of Jones in the Pirates&#8217; rotation will be right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mlodzca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carmen Mlodzinski<\/a>. Mlodzinski had a nice rookie season of his own in 2023, establishing himself as a high-leverage option with a 2.25 ERA and 1.278 WHIP. Last year, he came back to Earth a bit with a 3.38 ERA, although his 1.184 WHIP was an improvement. In the spring, it was revealed that he expressed an interest in becoming a starter in 2025. He has five major league starts under his belt, but those were situations where he was used as an opener. Starting won\u2019t be foreign to Mlodzinski, however. He made 36 minor league starts, including at Double-A Altoona as recently as 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Jones going to the IL opened the door for either <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strathu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hunter Stratton<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/strzepe01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Peter Strzelecki<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/wentzjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-03-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joey Wentz<\/a> to make the team as a relief pitcher. As of this writing, no final decision has been made, and Jones hasn\u2019t been formally placed on the IL.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Nathan Ray Seebeck-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Jared Jones will be placed on the injured list with elbow discomfort. The good news is that Tuesday\u2019s tests revealed no ligament damage, and therefore, surgery won\u2019t be required. He won\u2019t throw for six weeks. Noah Hiles of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was the first to report this news that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5010,"featured_media":98240,"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":[26,1071],"tags":[3632,3718,1306],"class_list":["post-98230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pirates","category-mlb","tag-carmen-mlodzinski","tag-jared-jones","tag-joey-wentz"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98230","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\/5010"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98230"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98241,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98230\/revisions\/98241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}