A soreness on the final day of spring training resulted in a surgery earlier this month that will cost John Brebbia the season. The Cardinals’ reliever, who was a candidate to be a closer coming out of spring training, had elbow reconstructive surgery on June 8 in St. Louis, the Cardinals disclosed Wednesday. The recovery from Tommy John surgery is usually a full year.
The belatedness of the announcement stems from the oversight of a reporter to ask a more specific question earlier this month, the team focusing its public comments on the draft, and the oxygen being taken up recently by labor negotiations and frustrations.