In early September, Davey Martinez was asked if there was any update on reliever Tanner Rainey, who’d had Tommy John surgery a month earlier, after an up-and-down run for the right-hander in his fourth season in D.C.
Rainey’s 2022 season ended in early July, with a right elbow issue which eventually needed a surgical fix. He had the surgery in early August.
“It obviously stinks,” Martinez said, as quoted by MASN’s Mark Zuckerman in announcing the bad news on Rainey undergoing the procedure.
“It’s frustrating. He understands that he’s got a long road ahead of him, but he wants to get back as soon as possible.