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Max Kranick Undergoes Tommy John Surgery

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According to Jason Mackey, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Max Kranick had Tommy John surgery on Friday, which ends his 2022 season early and will have him out during the early part of 2023.

Kranick pitched five scoreless innings over two appearances with the Pirates this year. He missed some time early in the season with forearm soreness, which eventually turned into the surgery after being shut down for a second time. He pitched just 8.2 innings in the minors this season, and his final big league appearance on May 11th was also his last outing of the season, though he ended up on the minor league injured list, not the majors. The 24-year-old Kranick had a 6.28 ERA and a 1.71 WHIP in 38.2 innings over nine starts with the 2021 Pirates.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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