White Sox right-hander Matt Foster underwent Tommy John surgical procedure this week, per Scott Merkin of MLB.com. The righty was positioned on the 15-day injured listing at first of the season as a result of a forearm pressure and was transferred to the 60-day final week.
Foster, 28, has spent his total profession with the White Sox to date, having been chosen by them within the twentieth spherical of the 2016 draft. He labored his means as much as the majors and debuted in 2020, exhibiting promise that yr by posting a 2.20 ERA in 28 2/3 innings. He struck out 28.4% of batters confronted whereas strolling 8.3% of them and bought grounders on 35.8% of balls in play. He wasn’t fairly capable of preserve that tempo within the two subsequent seasons, nevertheless, registering a mixed 5.14 ERA in 84 innings with a diminished strikeout fee of twenty-two.3%.
Foster will now be out of motion for the rest of this yr and a part of 2024 as properly, given the everyday Tommy John restoration time of 14 to 18 months. He’ll accrue a full yr of service time whereas on the IL all season, which is able to get him past the three-year plateau and qualify him for arbitration for the primary time within the coming offseason.
