{"id":189068,"date":"2025-10-04T06:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189068\/"},"modified":"2025-10-04T06:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:13:10","slug":"lawrence-butler-undergoes-patellar-tendon-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/189068\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Butler Undergoes Patellar Tendon Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

The A\u2019s announced that\u00a0Lawrence Butler<\/a> underwent surgery to repair the patellar tendon in his right knee. The outfielder also received a platelet-rich plasma injection to address patellar tendonitis in his opposite knee. The club didn\u2019t announce a specific recovery timeline but said that Butler will rehab during the offseason in preparation for Spring Training.<\/p>\n

Butler is coming off a middling season. He hit .234\/.306\/.404 while striking out at a 28.4% rate across 630 plate appearances. Butler still managed a 20-20 showing, but all three slash stats regressed from his excellent 2024 campaign. He had a particularly poor second half, hitting .203\/.268\/.351 with a strikeout rate narrowly above 30% after the All-Star Break.<\/p>\n

The knee issues could explain some of that downturn. General manager David Forst told Mart\u00edn Gallegos of MLB.com<\/a> on Tuesday that Butler played through the right knee injury for the final few weeks of the season. The 25-year-old remains one of the organization\u2019s core lineup pieces.\u00a0Nick Kurtz<\/a> and Jacob Wilson<\/a> already look like stars.\u00a0Brent Rooker<\/a>,\u00a0Tyler Soderstrom<\/a>,\u00a0Shea Langeliers<\/a> and Butler all have All-Star ceilings, giving the A\u2019s a lineup that runs at least six deep.<\/p>\n

Butler is one season into the second-largest contract in franchise history. He signed a seven-year, $65.5MM deal in Spring Training. He finished the season as the everyday center fielder but probably projects as their long-term right fielder.\u00a0Denzel Clarke<\/a>, who missed most of the second half with a groin injury, is a phenomenal center fielder. Their ideal defense has Clarke up the middle, but he\u2019ll need to improve upon the 38% strikeout rate he posted in his rookie season to stick even at the bottom of the lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The A\u2019s announced that\u00a0Lawrence Butler underwent surgery to repair the patellar tendon in his right knee. The outfielder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189069,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,22906,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-189068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-lawrence-butler","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}