It wasn’t that long ago when Félix Bautista was thought of as one of the best relief pitchers in all of baseball. After bursting onto the scene in 2022, Bautista anchored the Baltimore Orioles bullpen in 2023, finishing the season with a 1.48 ERA to go along with 33 saves in 61 innings before having a premature end to his season due to a shoulder injury that eventually required Tommy John surgery.
Now, nearly two years later, fans received another ominous update about Bautista that seems eerily similar to that 2023 update. Earlier this week, the Orioles announced that Bautista would miss the rest of the 2025 season due to his shoulder injury that popped up at the end of July.