Corbin Burnes to Undergo TJ Surgery- Possibly done for all of 2026

[Futuregm2]

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/06/ ... rgery.html

Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo has informed members of the media that right-hander Corbin Burnes will undergo Tommy John surgery. Burnes will therefore miss the remainder of this season and possibly the entire 2026 campaign as well. Radio broadcaster Chris Garagiola was among those to pass the info along.

[Futuregm2]

Arizona’s history with SP deals is

Burnes
Eduardo Rodriguez: -0.8 bWAR 4-7 5.99 ERA over 2 seasons (4 years/$80 million)
Jordan Montgomery: -1.4 bWAR 8-7 6.23 ERA over 2 seasons (1 year/$25 million deal with vesting option, which made it $47.5 million over 2)
Madison Bumgarner: -0.4 bWAR 15-32 5.23 ERA over 4 seasons (5 years/$85 million)

[cardsfaninla]

ouch
Ppl in my neck of the woods are gonna be bummed
Dbacks fans have a complex and this won't help.
5 straight amazing years of healthy pitching and he blows his elbow in his first season with the Dbacks.
Brutal.
No one said baseball (or life) was fair.

[imadangman]

Arizona’s history with SP deals is

Burnes
Eduardo Rodriguez: -0.8 bWAR 4-7 5.99 ERA over 2 seasons (4 years/$80 million)
Jordan Montgomery: -1.4 bWAR 8-7 6.23 ERA over 2 seasons (1 year/$25 million deal with vesting option, which made it $47.5 million over 2)
Madison Bumgarner: -0.4 bWAR 15-32 5.23 ERA over 4 seasons (5 years/$85 million)

And Zack Greinke before that

[hugeCardfan]

Cautionary tale on signing high dollar value, long term contracts to pitchers.

[ramfandan]

Why in the upcoming draft , I am not sold that Cardinals 5th pick should necessarily be a pitcher.
You rarely see a fine position player needing Tommy John surgery.

[rockondlouie]

Why in the upcoming draft , I am not sold that Cardinals 5th pick should necessarily be a pitcher.
You rarely see a fine position player needing Tommy John surgery.

^^^THIS^^^

I'd rather see them find a power hitter they can develop at 3B.

[ScotchMIrish]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Bo4MbdY_Bjs

Goose Gossage. All the fundamentals are out the window. Piece of bleep windup. You can't play in the majors without Tommy John. If it doesn't come out of that stupid computer they wouldn't know bleep.

[Pink Freud]

Right how the D'backs are a .500 team, and that's WITH Zac Gallen (5+ ERA) and Merrill Kelly. Losing Burnes; seeing Eduardo Rodriguez bombing, and now young Brandon Pfaadt getting lit up his last two starts is going to require some serious decision-making in late July: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/640010 ... -pitching/

Those really, really old farts in St. Louis who recall 1967 know that when Bob Gibson broke his leg, youngster Nelson Briles and 29-year-old rookie Dick Hughes unexpectedly stepped up their game to fill the breach. I don't see anyone in the D'backs system who can be depended on to do the same.

These disastrous arm injuries are going to continue with every club until some SP without a howitzer fastball, who just gets outs instead of trying to strike everybody out*** has a hugely successful season...then maybe pitching coaches will stress pitch variety and location, and going deep into games --- including (gasp) going through the lineup a 3rd or (horrors!) 4th time --- instead of 10-pitch strikeouts to every batter. It's this crazy strikeout mentality that's killing pitchers.

*** Just for example, in how many seasons did Bob Gibson strike out at least 1.00 batter per inning? Answer: None.
Steve Carlton? None.
Greg Maddux? None.
Tom Glavine? None.

[JDW]

Right how the D'backs are a .500 team, and that's WITH Zac Gallen (5+ ERA) and Merrill Kelly. Losing Burnes; seeing Eduardo Rodriguez bombing, and now young Brandon Pfaadt getting lit up his last two starts is going to require some serious decision-making in late July: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/640010 ... -pitching/

Those really, really old farts in St. Louis who recall 1967 know that when Bob Gibson broke his leg, youngster Nelson Briles and 29-year-old rookie Dick Hughes unexpectedly stepped up their game to fill the breach. I don't see anyone in the D'backs system who can be depended on to do the same.

These disastrous arm injuries are going to continue with every club until some SP without a howitzer fastball, who just gets outs instead of trying to strike everybody out*** has a hugely successful season...then maybe pitching coaches will stress pitch variety and location, and going deep into games --- including (gasp) going through the lineup a 3rd or (horrors!) 4th time --- instead of 10-pitch strikeouts to every batter. It's this crazy strikeout mentality that's killing pitchers.

*** Just for example, in how many seasons did Bob Gibson strike out at least 1.00 batter per inning? Answer: None.
Steve Carlton? None.
Greg Maddux? None.
Tom Glavine? None.

The hitters of today, with all the training, the labs, the exposure to high velo and spin rates at an early age would overall likely destroy the pitching like you're trying to describe.