NEW YORK – The toll from a decade of durability for Jose Berrios came due Wednesday, when the Toronto Blue Jays right-hander underwent Tommy John surgery that will sideline him for the next 12-18 months.

An every-fifth-day reliability while pitching in 275 games, all but two of them starts, and logging 1,571.2 innings from 2017-2025 earned him the nickname La Makina, Spanish for The Machine, and made the news more jarring, even if his breakdown began last season.

Berrios was moved to the bullpen last September amid a rough stretch of outings and made just one relief appearance before elbow inflammation landed him on the injured list for the first time in the big-leagues.

During camp in February, he conceded that he had doubts about his health as far back as the previous spring, and while he tried to pitch through it, the effects showed in his numbers. In 30 starts overall, he posted a 4.06 ERA across 164 innings, but was at 3.26 through his first 17 starts and 5.37 in his final 13.

Still, following an off-season of healing, as well as mending fences after he left the team during the World Series, he felt strong this spring and was stunned when a stress fracture in his right elbow was found during an insurance physical for the World Baseball Classic. 

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