Mets top pitching prospect, 20-year-old Marcos Molina had Tommy John surgery in September, meaning he will likely miss all of 2016, according to Baseball America’s Matt Eddy (Oct. 30, 2015).
Molina was 1-5 with a 4.57 ERA, with 36 strikeouts and 11 walks in 41 1/3 innings last season for High-A St. Lucie.
Molina made six starts this year before being shut down in May with a strained right elbow. Instead of having Tommy John surgery in June, he and the organization chose to rehab the injury. He returned to make three starts in August, but struggled with his command and velocity.
Molina had posted a 1.78 ERA in 76 innings for Single-A Brooklyn in 2014.
The surgery will keep him out most of 2016, but should allow him a complete off season routine that allows him to be 100 percent healthy in 2017.
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This is a shame. He’s a tough kid, and I think fans will love him when they get a look at what he can do. I bet he would have hit Double-A this season had it not been for his elbow pain. And if he didn’t get there, he certainly would have next season, after which he would have been the talk of Spring Training in 2017. But, now he is slowed down a bit.
It may end up being for the best. He’s a fastball, change-up guy, with a slurve, and a simple, smooth delivery. He’s a bit of slinger. So, with a 96 mph fastball, this injury was probably inevitable. It’s best he has the surgery now, so, like Matt Harvey once did, he can spend a full season rehabbing and start new next off season. Then, in 2017, he can restart his ascent, just like Steven Matz and Jacob deGrom had to go through in 2010.
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