This past winter, the Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent reliever Shawn Tolleson to a one-year deal, hoping that the veteran could find his way back to the 2015 season when he saved 35 games for the Texas Rangers.
However, Tolleson will not be pitching for the Rays anytime soon as the team announced via their pre-game press release that he underwent Tommy John surgery on Wednesday in Texas and will miss the remainder of the 2017 season and the majority of 2018, which was reported by Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times.