The epidemic of major elbow injuries that has marred baseball for several years revisited the Dodgers this week, the team announcing that 24-year-old right-hander Emmet Sheehan underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery on Wednesday.
Sheehan, who showed promise by going 4-1 with a 4.92 ERA and 64 strikeouts in 60 u2153 innings over 13 games — 11 of them starts — last season, is the first Dodgers pitcher to undergo the ligament-replacement procedure this season, but the team lost starters Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin to the surgery in 2023.
Sheehan, who jumped from double-A to the big leagues last season, entered spring training as the favorite to win the fifth rotation spot, but he was slowed in Arizona by what the team first called “general body soreness” and later right-shoulder soreness.