The Boston Crimson Sox should end the 2025 season with out the providers of a former all-star.
Supervisor Alex Cora confirmed to reporters Saturday that beginning pitcher Tanner Houck will bear Tommy John surgical procedure and miss the rest of the season.
The 29-year-old right-hander hasn’t pitched since Could 12 when he was sidelined by a flexor pronator pressure of his proper elbow.
Houck struggled in 2025, with an 8.04 ERA over 9 begins with Boston.
However he is only one 12 months faraway from his first all-star choice when he had a 3.12 ERA over 30 begins in 2024.
Houck was initially chosen by the Toronto Blue Jays within the 2014 MLB Draft out of highschool, however opted to go to school as an alternative of turning professional. The Crimson Sox then drafted him within the first spherical (twenty fourth general) of the 2017 MLB Draft.
He made his MLB debut with the Crimson Sox in 2020 and has a profession 3.97 ERA over 5 seasons.
