Miami Marlins ace and reigning NL Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara won’t pitch once more this season, he showed Saturday (per the Miami Herald). Alcantara has a sprained ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow and has been shut down after experiencing forearm tightness all over a Triple-A rehab get started previous this week.
“It’s very frustrating for me, a guy like me who always likes to go out and compete,” Alcantara told the Miami Herald. “I feel sorry about the fans, my family, my son, my friends, the city because I want to be out there this year. Hopefully, I’ve got to be ready for next year. I don’t know. I’ve just got to keep positive.”
Alcantara used to be put on the injured record on Sept. 6 with what the Marlins first of all referred to as a proper forearm flexor pressure. He struck out 4 in 4 shutout innings all over his Triple-A get started Thursday, even though he didn’t really feel proper in a while, and returned to Miami for analysis.
The UCL is the Tommy John surgical operation ligament and flexor traces and forearm tightness are not unusual signs of elbow hassle. The Marlins and Alcantara are in the strategy of figuring out the subsequent choices, even though his season is over. Tommy John surgical operation (or the trade inner brace process) would wipe out his 2024 season as smartly.
“I don’t know yet,” Alcantara told the Miami Herald about the next steps. “We’ve got to get together, have a conversation. I don’t know how long but we have to talk about decisions that we have to make. I don’t know if we have to decide about surgery or not. We just have to get together.”
Needless to mention, shedding Alcantara for any period of time is a devastating blow to a Marlins crew this is in the thick of the wild-card race. They input play Saturday one sport in the back of the Chicago Cubs for the 3rd wild-card spot, even though the Cincinnati Reds are just a half-game in the back of Miami. The wild-card race could be very, very tight.
Alcantara, 28, is the sport’s preeminent workhorse. He led baseball in innings (228 2/3) and batters confronted (886) en path to successful the Cy Young ultimate season, and even if he has no longer been as efficient this year as ultimate, Alcantara did give his crew 184 2/3 innings with a 4.14 ERA earlier than getting harm.
Miami has used a sequence of openers and bullpen video games to exchange Alcantara since he landed on the injured record.