Yankees minor league reliever Jacob Lindgren spent all season fighting the inevitable, but the news we all knew was coming finally was announced Wednesday. The 23-year-old lefty will require the dreaded Tommy John surgery, effectively ending his 2017 campaign before it even begins.
Things couldn’t have gone much worse for the Yankees 2014 second round pick this year. He was the first member of New York’s 40 man roster cut from major league camp after it became apparent he wasn’t fully recovered from surgery to remove a bone chip in his elbow.
He did manage to make six appearances for High-A Tampa, but the control issues that had plagued him in the spring only got worse.