More terrible news for A’s starter Jarrod Parker.
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reported late Saturday night -- or, more accurately, early Sunday morning -- that the 26-year-old right-hander has been diagnosed with a fractured medial epicondyle in his pitching elbow. That’s the bone where one end of his Tommy John surgery graft is attached. Surgery is said to be imminent, and it could very well be another Tommy John procedure.
Parker suffered the fracture Friday in a rehab start at Triple-A Nashville. It was his fourth minor league rehab outing, and he was maybe a week or two from returning to the A’s starting rotation after missing all of 2014 following his second Tommy John surgery.
Parker was the ninth overall pick in the 2007 MLB Amateur Draft out of an Indiana high school and had registered a promising 3.68 ERA and 1.237 WHIP over his first 384 major league innings. What a shame.