Carter Capps officially going under the knife.
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Carter Capps will undergo Tommy John surgery on Tuesday.
Capps underwent an MRI last Tuesday after feeling discomfort in his right elbow. He subsequently visited Dr. James Andrews in Pensacola. No good news came of that meeting, clearly. The 25-year-old right-hander will miss the whole of the 2016 campaign. While the team's hoping that he'll be ready for Opening Day, 2017, that's a long ways off and it should be considered a soft projection and nothing more at this point. The elbow injury's a tough blow for player and team, as Capps was a potential ninth-inning arm. In 31 innings last season, he held a stellar 1.16 ERA and 58/7 K/BB ratio. With him out of the picture, A.J. Ramos should be considered more/less locked in as closer.