Edinson Volquez may have thrown his last pitch with the Miami Marlins.
Hours after it was revealed that the right-hander would be shut down for the rest of the season due to left knee tendinitis, Marlins president of baseball operations Michael Hill revealed to Joe Frisaro of MLB.com that Volquez has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow and is scheduled to undergo Tommy John surgery.
The procedure will be performed on Friday, per ESPN's Buster Olney.
Volquez has been on the disabled list since early July with his knee issue, and it was announced earlier in the day that a second opinion confirmed the tendinitis would end his season. According to Hill, the right-hander felt pain in his elbow while rehabbing his knee injury, leading to an MRI and the discovery of the torn UCL.
"It's a devastating blow, no question," Hill said, according to Frisaro. "We brought him in to be a veteran stabilizer to this rotation. To lose him with the knee was a big blow. But now to know the elbow needs to be repaired is definitely difficult to deal with."
This will be the second time Volquez has been forced to have his UCL surgically repaired. He first underwent Tommy John surgery while a member of the Cincinnati Reds on Aug. 3, 2009 - nearly eight years to the day of Tuesday's announcement of the second procedure being required.
Volquez ends his 2017 season sporting a 4-8 record with a 4.19 ERA and 1.419 WHIP, while averaging 7.9 strikeouts per nine innings across 17 starts. He threw the sixth no-hitter in Marlins history on June 3.
The 34-year-old joined the Marlins this past winter on a two-year, $22-million contract. He'll make $13 million next season.
