Arizona Diamondbacks: Silvino Bracho’s Broken Heart…er, Elbow

Rosters are whittled and shaped in Spring Training, sometimes by forces beyond team control. The latest injury to Diamondbacks reliever Silvino Bracho is one of those cases.

Diamondbacks reliever Silvino Bracho will undergo Tommy John surgery, knocking him out for the entirety of the season, tweets the Athletic’s Zach Buchanan. Bracho left his last spring outing with elbow discomfort, and this represents the worst-case scenario.

Bracho will miss not only the entirety of the 2019 season, but potentially some of 2020 as well, MLB Trade Rumors reports. The injury comes just as Bracho seemed to cement himself as part of the Diamondbacks bullpen picture. He was out of options, which helped his…