{"id":262747,"date":"2025-11-04T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262747\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:42:08","slug":"padres-yu-darvish-out-for-all-of-2026-after-ucl-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/262747\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres&#8217; Yu Darvish out for all of 2026 after UCL surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4dec648c-3eb9-055c-aebc-2711f30975a0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/sd\/san-diego-padres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Padres<\/a> veteran pitcher <a data-player-guid=\"7251fc52-37d7-5cf4-1266-8308b6bcf656\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32055\/yu-darvish\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yu Darvish<\/a> underwent Ulnar Collateral Ligament repair surgery on his right elbow and is expected to miss all of the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>Darvish announced the news on social media Tuesday, saying he had the surgery last Wednesday and is using an internal brace to help repair the UCL.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will be working hard on my rehab to be able to throw a ball comfortably again,&#8221; Darvish said, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/faridyu\/status\/1985799236747993578\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to a translated post on X<\/a>. The typical recovery timeline for that procedure is 12-15 months, according to the Padres.<\/p>\n<p>Darvish, 39, was 5-5 with a 5.38 ERA for San Diego last season. He has three years and just under $50 million remaining on his six-year deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres veteran pitcher Yu Darvish underwent Ulnar Collateral Ligament repair surgery on his right elbow and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262748,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-262747","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-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262747","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=262747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}