Jon Roegele

Baseball writer/analyst. Focus primarily on league-wide baseball research.

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

Crossword clue fictional pitching matchups of the season

[Jon Morosi @jonmorosi]

Amazing human story. Woodruff is one of the classiest people in the game. Richly deserved moment for him.

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

The 40.9% is for full TJ surgeries (or TJ + internal brace). I try to track brace only surgeries separately. If I included those there would be at least a dozen more pitchers.

Also Andrew Nardi, William Kempner, Blade Tidwell all had UCL surgery this year, but type is unknown.

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

The percentage of MLB pitchers who have had Tommy John surgery at some point in their lives continues to rise each year.

2016 - 27.4%
2017 - 25.9%
2018 - 28.5%
2019 - 30.8%
2020 - 32.0%
2021 - 32.0%
2022 - 34.4%
2023 - 35.7%
2024 - 38.9%
2025 - 39.6%
2026 - 40.9%

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

Here is the breakdown by team from 2026:

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

@susanslusser Thank you Susan. These days sometimes they find they need to do a full UCL reconstruction (and sometimes add an internal brace as well), and sometimes they just put in an internal brace. I was interested in which of those two he ended up having to do.

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

@IsaacAzout Hello Isaac. Do you know whether Andrew Nardi and/or William Kempner surgeries ended up being full TJ surgeries or just internal brace? I haven’t seen any detailed reports since the surgeries.

[Christopher Kamka @ckamka]

To run Skubal, Yamamoto, Snell & Glasnow out to the mound as your starting pitchers and get swept in 4 is absolutely ridiculous.

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

It is also the most cursed first round for Tommy John surgeries. Here is the view including Supplemental First Round picks. 15/22 pitchers.

[OldTimeHardball @OleTimeHardball]

2016 MLB Draft - 1st Round picks

[Vancouver Canadians @vancanadians]

Congrats to former Vancouver Canadian Otto Lopez! 🤩

[Joey Votto @JoeyVotto]

A message from players. We give to our communities, love the cities we play for, and are always thinking of the fans.
Vladdy is this guy. When I listened to his comments I just heard a frustrated competitor. Kudos to him for making this right. He loves the city that loves him.

[Joe Wolfond @joey_doubleyou]

if you’d told me before the season that the jays were gonna miss the playoffs in a year where it took 84 wins to get in, i’d have run through like 300 different scenarios before getting to “vlad finishes with a sub-700 ops & single-digit homers despite playing 140+ games.”

[Eric Cross @EricCrossMLB]

#Cubs Pete Crow-Armstrong is the first National League player since Barry Bonds in 2004 to record a 10 fWAR in a season.

[Sarah Langs @SlangsOnSports]

most wins by a team following at least three consecutive 100+ loss seasons:

2026 White Sox: 75
2014 Astros: 70
1965 Senators: 70
1925 Boston Braves: 70

Related: no team has made the playoffs following even 2 straight 100-loss szns
Or won its division the year after losing 100+
Yet

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

Great to see. I have tracked 1370 Tommy John surgeries for professional players who did eventually return to the same level of baseball. Only 8 endured through longer returns than the 49 months here.

[Patrick Reusse @Patrick_Reusse]

Matt Canterino on mound tonight for Cedar Rapids. Never have Twins held hope so long for a pitcher. Here’s the last of several columns during his odyssey. https://t.co/gxD8jJjw3B

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

Something incredible to me is that the Detroit Tigers have the 3rd best run differential (+47) in the American League (behind only NYY and BOS), but only the 12th best record in the American League (ahead of only KC, ATH, LAA).

[Mike Petriello @mike_petriello]

Tremendous detail here

[Jon Roegele @MLBPlayerAnalys]

The last two games Bryce Miller has started for the Mariners they have been outscored 41-2. That seems almost impossible.

[Jacob @jacobledelman]

1st PA: 449 ft HR
2nd PA: 382 ft HR
3rd PA: 368 ft HR

Pretty hard to watch Baez regress this quickly.