Rangers right-hander Jake Odorizzi underwent an arthroscopic process on his shoulder and can miss the complete 2023 season, experiences Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning Information.
For sure, that is an terrible growth for each Odorizzi and the membership. The Rangers went into the offseason trying to improve a rotation that posted a 4.63 ERA final yr, which positioned them twenty fifth out of the 30 golf equipment within the league. They have been additionally set to lose Martín Pérez, their handiest starter final yr, to free company. By the tip of the offseason, they’d re-signed Pérez, traded for Odorizzi and signed free brokers Jacob deGrom, Nathan Eovaldi and Andrew Heaney. These 5, together with incumbent Jon Grey, completely overhauled the rotation and allowed them to enter spring with six established huge league starters.
Although that’s a robust group on paper, there have been additionally harm considerations sprinkled all through it, with Odorizzi being no exception. Although he made at the very least 28 begins in every season from 2014 to 2019, the previous few years have seen a couple of well being points creep in. He solely made 4 begins in 2020, occurring the injured checklist as a result of an intercostal pressure, chest contusion and proper center finger blister. In 2021, a proper pronator muscle pressure and proper foot soreness every resulted in IL stints, limiting him to 104 2/3 innings. Final yr, decrease left leg discomfort saved him out of motion about six weeks and he tallied simply 106 1/3 innings.
Nonetheless, Odorizzi appeared like a strong pickup for the Rangers. Amid all these accidents, he nonetheless posted ERAs of 4.21 in 2021 and 4.40 final yr. He additionally didn’t value a lot, as Atlanta agreed to cowl $10MM of his $12.5MM wage as a part of the commerce. The one piece the Rangers despatched the opposite method was Kolby Allard, who had struggled to a 6.07 ERA in his huge league profession up to now.
Sadly, the Rangers will finally get nothing out of the deal, as Odorizzi will develop into a free agent after this misplaced season. He was slowed in camp by some arm fatigue and basic supervisor Chris Younger just lately gave a vaguely ominous replace that Odorizzi would possible be out “longer than shorter,” which was adopted by the righty getting positioned on the 60-day injured checklist for Opening Day. That dominated him out for the primary couple of months of the season however this information now means he’ll miss his whole age-33 marketing campaign.
Going into 2021, Odorizzi was signed by the Astros to a two-year, $23.5MM deal. That contract got here with a $6.5MM participant possibility for 2023 that had a $3.25MM buyout, although these two figures would leap to $12.5MM and $6.25MM if Odorizzi made 30 appearances over 2021 and 2022. He ended up making 46, simply pushing these numbers up. In August of final yr, the Astros flipped Odorizzi to Atlanta for left-hander Will Smith. At season’s finish, Odorizzi triggered that participant possibility earlier than getting flipped to Texas.
The Rangers nonetheless have that robust entrance 5 in deGrom, Eovaldi, Heaney, Pérez and Grey, however they may now proceed with out their deliberate #6 starter. Proper-hander Dane Dunning and left-hander Cole Ragans are most likely the membership’s prime depth choices now, although each are working within the huge league bullpen within the early elements of this season.
