Los Angeles Dodgers starter Dustin May, one of the game's brightest young pitchers, will undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery to repair a damaged ulnar collateral ligament, the team announced on Monday.
The surgery will be performed by Dr. Neal El Attrache. The recovery timetable usually falls somewhere between 12 and 16 months, a prognosis that could have May back for the stretch run of the 2022 season.
May, 23, has a 2.93 ERA with 111 strikeouts and 27 walks in 113 2/3 regular-season innings over the last three years. He won the fifth spot of the Dodgers' rotation coming out of spring training and appeared to reach yet another level in his development, with a 2.