SCOTTSDALE — Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitching prospect Blake Walston will undergo Tommy John surgery, ending his 2025 season before it starts, manager Torey Lovullo announced on Friday.
Walston started a spring training game on Sunday in Las Vegas against the Athletics and complained afterward about elbow tenderness. After imaging and a second opinion, the decision was made to have surgery.
“It’s terrible news for him, terrible news for all of us,” Lovullo said. “The investment he’s made, continuing to work and grow and progress in the system is just going to be put on hold for 14 months, give or take a month, but it’s part of the game. It happens.”
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Walston is 23 years old and made his MLB debut last season as the starting rotation went through a slew of injuries. He made seven appearances for the Diamondbacks, pitching to a 4.42 ERA with 18 strikeouts and 10 walks in 18.1 innings.
In Triple-A Reno, he worked a 4.98 ERA in 65 innings.
“There were a lot of things I learned about taking care of your body to make you be that successful guy on the mound every single day,” Walston told Arizona Sports’ Wolf & Luke earlier this spring.
“Being in the minor leagues, you can get away from that stuff a little bit, it’s not as much pressure or adrenaline that’s gonna make you more sore the day after. There’s a lot of things I had to learn and get my body to feel that soreness to know I need to enhance my recovery, and that’s something I took very seriously in the offseason and building for this season.”
Walston had already been optioned to Triple-A this spring and represented pitching depth at the upper minors along with Tommy Henry, Yilber Diaz and Cristian Mena.
MLB Pipeline ranked Walston No. 30 on Arizona’s prospects list entering the season. Arizona took the 6-foot-5 lefty with the No. 26 overall pick out of high school in 2019.
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