{"id":8663,"date":"2025-11-04T20:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=8663"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:25:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:25:55","slug":"yu-darvish-undergoes-ucl-surgery-will-miss-entire-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/?p=8663","title":{"rendered":"Yu Darvish Undergoes UCL Surgery, Will Miss Entire 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>The Padres announced that right-hander <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/darviyu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-04_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Yu Darvish<\/a><\/strong> underwent surgery last Wednesday to fix a damaged right UCL and flexor tendon.\u00a0 The procedure was an internal brace surgery instead of a full Tommy John surgery, yet the outcome is still the same \u2014 Darvish will miss the entire 2026 season while recovering.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the second entirely lost year of Darvish\u2019s career, as he missed all of 2015 due to a Tommy John procedure.\u00a0 He has had some bouts of elbow soreness in the decade since that surgery, most prominently a stint on the 60-day injured list this season stemming from a bout of elbow inflammation that arose during Spring Training.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until July 7 that Darvish finally made his season debut for the Padres, and he clearly didn\u2019t look 100 percent while posting a 5.38 ERA over 15 starts and 72 innings.\u00a0 Small sample size notwithstanding, Darvish\u2019s 23% strikeout rate was the lowest of his 13 MLB seasons, and his chase and whiff rates were far below average.\u00a0 His 6.4% walk rate was still quite strong and Darvish did a very good job of limiting hard contact overall, but batters tended to thrive when actually squaring up on the veteran, as Darvish allowed 14 homers over his 72 frames.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/yu-darvish-undergoes-ucl-surgery-will-miss-entire-2026-season.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Padres announced that right-hander Yu Darvish underwent surgery last Wednesday to fix a damaged right UCL and flexor tendon.\u00a0 The procedure was an internal brace surgery instead of a full Tommy John surgery, yet the outcome is still the same \u2014 Darvish will miss the entire 2026 season while recovering. 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