Report: Mizzou lefthander Tony Neubeck to miss rest of season with torn UCL

The Missouri Tigers baseball team just suffered a massive loss on the mound. According to Kendall Rogers of D1 Baseball, Mizzou pitcher Tony Neubeck tore his UCL and will miss the rest of the year. Here was that report, which Rogers tweeted on Thursday morning:

“Mizzou Baseball left handed pitcher Tony Neubeck will miss the rest of the season after suffering a torn UCL. Neubeck’s loss is a tough blow for a red-hot #Mizzou club. He had appeared in six games and had a 3.86 ERA in 18.2 innings of work. #Mizzou.”

Tough loss for the Tigers and so early in the year too. Neubeck was really starting to come on strong as a sophomore after an up and down freshman campaign, where he appeared 15 times for 54 total innings while posting a 5.63 ERA. This year, as noted by Rogers, he was down to 3.86 and was starting to look like a future staple of the rotation.

The Tigers themselves were also starting to look like a real force to be reckoned with in the SEC as he went down. Just this past weekend, Mizzou swept No. 2 ranked Tennessee in dominant fashion, scoring 7+ runs in al three games while never allowing more than four runs to the Vols. And those three victories against the nation’s second-ranked team are part of a current six-game winning winning streak for Missouri, which has helped them climb into the college baseball rankings at No. 22, sandwiched right in between fellow SEC foes Texas A&M at 21 and Kentucky at 23.

Here was a summary of his accomplishments as a freshman in 2022, according to the Mizzou Athletics website:

“Made 15 appearances and nine starts on the mound in his first season … became an integral part of the Tigers pitching staff, working 54.1 innings with 60 strikeouts … held opponents to .240 hitting … tossed an immaculate inning at ULM (Feb. 25) as part of four-straight, three-pitch strikeouts in a seven-punchout performance to earn first win … earned his first SEC win with 7.0 innings of two-run work against Kentucky (April 15) … racked up seven strikeouts on three different occasions … earned Appalachian League Pitcher of the Week in his first season of summer ball … Selected to First-Year SEC Academic Honor Roll.”

Poor fella will now have to wait until next spring to add to the above list of accomplishments. Oh well. Still a very bright future for the underclassman lefty.