{"id":500627,"date":"2026-02-20T21:31:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/pablo-lopez-will-undergo-tommy-john-surgery-and-will-miss-the-2026-season\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T21:31:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:31:45","slug":"pablo-lopez-will-undergo-tommy-john-surgery-and-will-miss-the-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/sports\/baseball\/pablo-lopez-will-undergo-tommy-john-surgery-and-will-miss-the-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo L\u00f3pez will undergo Tommy John surgery and will miss the 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"Fort Myers, Florida. \u2013 Venezuelan pitcher Pablo L\u00f3pez, ace of the Minnesota Twins&#8217; rotation, will undergo Tommy John reconstructive surgery this Wednesday after a significant tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his right elbow was confirmed.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ab.deultimominuto.net\/deportes\/beisbol\/pablo-lopez-presenta-desgarre-en-el-codo-y-podria-someterse-a-cirugia-tommy-john\/#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pablo L\u00f3pez presents a tear in his elbow and could undergo Tommy John surgery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nA second medical opinion ratified the initial diagnosis, so the right will be intervened in Texas by the renowned specialist Keith Meister.\n\nThis will be the second Tommy John surgery in L\u00f3pez&#8217;s career, which represents a hard blow for both the player and the Minnesota organization heading into the 2026 season.\n\nThe estimated recovery time for this procedure in pitchers is approximately 12 months, so the Venezuelan will miss the entire 2026 campaign. However, it is projected that he could be ready to return to the mound at the beginning of the 2027 season.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Myers, Florida. \u2013 Venezuelan pitcher Pablo L\u00f3pez, ace of the Minnesota Twins&#8217; rotation, will undergo Tommy John reconstructive surgery this Wednesday after a significant tear in the ulnar collateral ligament of his right elbow was confirmed. You may be interested in: Pablo L\u00f3pez presents a tear in his elbow and could undergo Tommy John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[35481],"tags":[611,40231,40813,13766,41186],"class_list":["post-500627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-baseball","tag-deultimominuto","tag-dominican-republic","tag-major-leagues","tag-mlb","tag-theperiodicodelatruth"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26eD","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Baseball"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}