Brewers' Quinn Priester To Have Season-Ending Surgery

[Steve Drumwright]

 

The expected bad news is now official: Quinn Priester's season is over.

The Milwaukee Brewers' right-handed starter will have surgery to repair his thoracic outlet syndrome. Priester told reporters Thursday that he will have surgery Monday. Priester is expected to miss eight to 10 months, meaning the early portion of that timeline would have him completely healthy in spring training.

Priester was diagnosed with thoracic outlet syndrome in spring training and had tried a number of things in an attempt to return to the mound. Priester pitched in eight minor-league games on rehab assignments, including the last two in the Arizona Complex League.

"I'm excited because this is a plan forward," Priester said.

Priester was a revelation after being acquired by the Brewers in April 2025. Picked up in a trade with the Boston Red Sox when the Brewers were desperate for starting pitching, Priester, who had been at Triple-A with Boston, jumped right into the major-league rotation and went 13-3 with a 4.01 FIP (3.32 ERA), walking 7.7% of batters and striking out 20.2%

 

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[patrickgpe]

I'm glad he is. Lets get him healthy and he can replace Woodruff next season when he is gone. 

The sad part is that the brewers waited so long to make this decision he will miss some of 2027 which was unnecessary. 

[KCBrewerfan34]

Do pitchers comeback from this surgery with good results? 

[long ball]

A real bummer, but I, like many other fans, had already written him off as a contributor to the 2026 season. 
 

let’s hope for a successful surgery, recovery, and return to his 2025 form. 
 

it does make you wonder how much the Brewers were counting on Priester coming into the season. They made a late off season trade to bring in Harrison and Drohan. If we wouldn’t have done that we’d be in a world of hurt given the injuries to Woody, Crow, and Henderson along with the shaky results from Gasser and Sproat. 

[ChapelHeel66]

I feel bad for Quinn.  He finally found a permanent home and now has to go through this.

 

 Does anyone know what kind of TOS it is?  I think Wheeler’s was venous and he took about 8 months (and looks awfully good out there)…and he’s at a much later stage of his career.  Those who recover well tend to be good as new.  Those who do not recover well simply don’t pitch anymore.  He seems optimistic and I’m looking forward to seeing him on the mound in 2027.

[liveforoctober]

24 minutes ago, KCBrewerfan34 said:

Do pitchers comeback from this surgery with good results? 

Strasburg will be the face of "fear" for TOS forever I think.

Admittedly, I am not very knowledgeable on this at all - this article from MLB I just dug up helped a bit:

What is thoracic outlet syndrome? Here’s everything you need to know

[BruisedCrew]

30 minutes ago, KCBrewerfan34 said:

Do pitchers comeback from this surgery with good results? 

Wheeler seems to be doing pretty well. 

[liveforoctober]

7 minutes ago, ChapelHeel66 said:

I feel bad for Quinn.  He finally found a permanent home and now has to go through this.

 

 Does anyone know what kind of TOS it is?  I think Wheeler’s was venous and he took about 8 months (and looks awfully good out there)…and he’s at a much later stage of his career.  Those who recover well tend to be good as new.  Those who do not recover well simply don’t pitch anymore.  He seems optimistic and I’m looking forward to seeing him on the mound in 2027.

Neurogenic. Here is a long clip McCalvy just posted on Priester talking about it. This is worth the watch I think listening to Quinn.

https://x.com/AdamMcCalvy/status/2067626770816233769?s=20