Top Reds prospect Hunter Greene has been diagnosed with a sprained right ulnar collateral ligament, the team announced. He won’t pitch again this season.
For the time being, Greene is slated to attempt to rehab the injury. The announcement indicates that he’ll report to the organization’s Spring Training facility and be monitored “throughout the offseason.” Perhaps the hope is that he’ll be ready to ramp up fully in camp next year.
It seems promising that the organization feels it’s worth pursuing a rehab rather than a surgical route. The club has not specified the grade of the strain. Obviously, any UCL injury raises the specter of the famous Tommy John procedure, but there’s no indication that it’s a consideration at this point in Greene’s case and plenty of pitchers have made it back from the injury without going under the knife.
Greene, who’s closing in on his 19th birthday, was the second overall pick in the 2017 draft. The high-powered righty rose to 18th on MLB.com’s mid-season ranking of the top prospects in baseball. In eighteen starts this year, he compiled a 4.48 ERA with 11.7 K/9 and 3.0 BB/9 over 68 1/3 innings at the Class A level.
Pitchers in Cincinnati aren’t meant to succeed. Make him a hitter full time.
They ended that last season
Yikes
This is surprising to no one. It’s also unfortunate.
I hate seeing 18-year olds hailed as the next best thing out of high school. Huge amount of pressure to put on a kid that seems likely to negatively affect his future
Didn’t seem to effect LeBron.
LeBron didn’t play baseball.
Yea, he actually did.
^Which MLB team did he break the majors with?
Everyone played little league and many played high school baseball.
I don’t think you’re getting the whole point.
So did Michael Jordan, how’d that baseball career work out for him?
Lebron is one of the greatest people of all time. If we all compared ourselves to him we all suck.
Greatest athlete, maybe. Greatest person, not even close!
STEROIDS
He never said “greatest person”, he said “one of the greatest people”. Do you have a problem with someone who gives back so much? Like starting a school for example.
One is a great sport, the other is basketball..
One is the #2 most popular sport in th US, the other is baseball.
People still watch the train wreck that is the NBA? Who knew.
One is called the National Pastime, the other has the longest police blotter.
One is growing exponentially (NBA), and the other is dying (MLB), and made up of racists, homophobia, and domestic abuse
Where is there more domestic abuse-NBA or MLB?
NBA 7.4 billion in income, the dying, MLB 9.5 billion in income… You were saying?
The only thing NBA has on MLB is how the players are marketed.
I’m too lazy to look this up, but isn’t the NFL probably in the lead for police blotter?
That figure for the NBA has increased by 40% over the last 10 years, and total revenues is set to exceed MLB in 2019. I wrote “growing exponentially”, the audience for the NBA is much younger, more diverse. The average age of an MLB fan is 55 vs the average age of the NBA fan being 42. Among African Americans polled what their favorite sport was 5% responded Baseball. The NBA has higher ratings overall and finals games were third behind the College Football playoff, and the biggest the NFL.
You’re probably also the person that thinks soccer will be #1 in America too. Baseball will adjust the rules before they will die.
No, but in the SW and NW, Soccer is already #2. Though the point was all about the NBA as written. How is MLB going to as you say “adjust the rules” to get a younger more diverse fan base?
… lol why did you even open this thread?
Why not?
High school pitchers are such high risks…..
Not a Reds’ fan, but definitely don’t like seeing this. Heal fast Amigo!
Get the TJ now, let him play SS next year and he’ll only miss one season of pitching.
How do you figure he would throw from SS to first?
See Torres, Gleyber. The recovery from TJ for position players is much shorter.
For every Tanaka, there are a dozen Garrett Richards. I feel the same about Chad Kuhl. Just get it over with and come back strong.
Gleyber had TJ on his left elbow.
Even IF Gleyber had TJ on his RH elbow the return would be quicker. SS dont have the workload on arm like pitchers.
No he wouldn’t. See Christian Vasquez you will lose a year of your career if you have TJ on your throwing elbow. Big difference there. Gleyber would of just now been returning if he was lucky had it been on his throwing elbow. Pitcher or non-pitcher.
Good thing he can hit
man that sucks..
Just saw him throwing 102 in futures game, sad!
sucks for him and i hope for a speedy recovery, but let’s get real here.
Why are we talking about an 18 year old who has a 4+ ERA in Single A? i understand he’s a to prospect, buy i don’t get it.
Well he averages over 100 mph on his fastball as a starter, has a protectable frame and is extremely talented. If you don’t buy into hunter Greene as a top prospect thank god you aren’t a GM anywhere
i didn’t say he’s not a top prospect. I’m just saying, in baseball he’s just a kid and has a long path to the Bigs.
Greene is also doing well at not walking batters, especially considering his strikeout rate.
3 BB/9IP in the low minors. thats not good control. guys in the minors swing at just about everything
All players who go 1/1 are going to have a magnifying glass on them. There is nothing to “GET” First year watching baseball?
He was 2nd pick in draft…
He throws 100 mph at 19.
So does Andres Muñoz. Guess he should be a top prospect too. That makes SD’s farm system that much deeper
Munoz was an international signing out of Mexico for 700k Greene was drafted 1/1, an elite baseball talent that everyone has heard of, there is big difference in talent evaluation at this point. And Munoz is considered a top prospect, he’s in the top 250.
You realize Greene was 1.2 right?
So was Danny Hultzen
Yeah, I was commenting on his evaluation that he throws 100 at 19. Doesn’t make you a top prospect because of it. But I do agree he is.
Until a player is at AA & above toss out the stats, Its all about development.
IF there is a stat good for minor league pitchers to follow its K’s. Greene had 95 in 72.2 IP. The avg age difference in the league Greene was playing in was 4 years older then Greene. Greene was showing elite raw stuff to more advanced hitters.
Hopefully the kid heals up and returns next season to continue his development.
Scouting the stat line is a pretty dim way of looking at someone. Defenses down in A ball in particular aren’t great, difficult to expect teenagers to make good plays behind him, or even get to a reasonable amount of balls.
He has velocity, a great K-BB%, projectable frame and is a super athlete. The tools are there.
And as a kid who just this year became a full time pitcher, it has been really about repeating a delivery and find some feel with an off-speed pitch. The fact his stats are that good, is just how talented he is, when its just been trying to get a better feel for pitching at this point.
Love this kid. Great potential, lotta moxie
Reds will turn this into a career long injury as they always do with pitchers
Thought this only happened to Angel pitchers lately. Thanks Cincinnati, you may have broken the spell.
All teams
What is lately, the Mets may want a word
He is vastly overrated. Another guy who throws hard with zero control. Should have drafted someone else honestly jo addel looking wayyyy better right now
Another case of scouts and front office obsession with the radar gun.