{"id":529539,"date":"2026-03-09T20:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529539\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T20:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T20:40:10","slug":"rockies-prospect-rj-petit-has-sprained-ucl-out-indefinitely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/529539\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies prospect RJ Petit has sprained UCL, out indefinitely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. &#8212; <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"f3f1ba71-05f1-a49a-0363-3b1d8e0db4cf\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/col\/colorado-rockies\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Rockies<\/a> reliever <a data-player-guid=\"2e663c10-5982-35b8-ac86-55b1e2353c50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4421878\/rj-petit\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RJ Petit<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story?id=47269383\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first pick in last year&#8217;s Rule 5 draft<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47269383\/rule-5-draft-yankees-take-winquest-rockies-get-petit\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/r1587811_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/47684202\/top-100-mlb-prospects-2026-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mlb_kiley_mcdaniel_top_100_prospects_cr_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. &#8212; Colorado Rockies reliever RJ Petit has a sprained UCL ligament in his right elbow, sidelining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-529539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}