Burdi will undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, ending his 2017 season, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.
It's an unfortunate end to what had been a promising start to the 2017 campaign, as Burdi had compiled a minuscule 0.53 ERA and a 20:4 K:BB through 17 innings before going on the DL with elbow soreness. The hard-throwing righty will likely return to the mound sometime in the middle of the 2018 season, where he'll look to build on his early success at Double-A Chattanooga.