{"id":619816,"date":"2026-03-12T07:38:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T07:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T07:38:53","slug":"colorado-rockies-pitching-prospect-rj-petit-has-sprained-ucl-in-his-right-elbow-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/619816\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Rockies pitching prospect RJ Petit has sprained UCL in his right elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Colorado Rockies reliever RJ Petit has a sprained UCL ligament in his right elbow, sidelining him indefinitely.<\/p>\n<p>The club made the announcement on Monday, adding that the 6-foot-8 Petit will undergo further testing before a decision is made on what course of treatment Petit will receive.<\/p>\n<p>The Rockies selected Petit with the first pick in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rule-5-draft-mlb-winter-meetings-d5bba8e5b09d2ab6d697001aa091c0f0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last year&#8217;s Rule 5 draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old Petit was taken by the Tigers in the 14th round of the 2021 amateur draft and went 10-2 with a 2.44 ERA in two starts and 45 relief appearances last season for Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo. He struck out 79 and walked 22 in 66 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Petit is 21-15 with a 3.40 ERA and 14 saves in five starts and 182 relief appearances over five minor league seasons but has yet to make his big-league debut.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) \u2014 Colorado Rockies reliever RJ Petit has a sprained UCL ligament in his right elbow,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2405],"tags":[4704,635,4705,4706,4707,5,4708,1004,1487,3995,167,52,4316,4703,4,168],"class_list":["post-619816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-rockies","tag-aaron-munoz","tag-alan-trejo","tag-andy-gonzalez","tag-anthony-molina","tag-austin-gomber","tag-baseball","tag-brendan-rodgers","tag-brenton-doyle","tag-bud-black","tag-cal-quantrill","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-coloradorockies","tag-elias-diaz","tag-mlb","tag-rockies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116215069916887554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}