Yankees’ Clarke Schmidt Faces Career Crossroads with Unexpected Second Tommy John Surgery
Boone hinted at Schmidt’s impending surgery ahead of the Mets game, confirming the injury to the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow, while Schmidt had been battling forearm soreness that cut short his latest outing in Toronto. Up until then, he held a respectable 4-4 record and a 3.32 ERA across 14 starts — not bad, considering he’d also battled right rotator cuff tendinitis earlier this season.
“He’s grown into a really solid starting pitcher,” Boone remarked last week, underscoring the blow this is to the rotation. Every baseball club faces its share of setbacks, yet the Yanks now have the challenge of stepping up, filling the void, and pushing forward — that’s the name of the game. Schmidt’s road has been no cakewalk; his first Tommy John surgery back in 2017 came just a month before New York drafted him 16th overall out of South Carolina. Now in his sixth major league season, the soreness that began after a June 4 start against Cleveland forced him out early from a June 21 game against Baltimore, capping off a remarkable streak of 28 1/3 innings without yielding a run.
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