{"id":296796,"date":"2025-11-20T10:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296796\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T10:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:04:08","slug":"joe-jimenez-underwent-knee-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/296796\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jim\u00e9nez Underwent Knee Procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braves reliever\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jimenjo02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Jim\u00e9nez<\/a> underwent a \u201ccleanup\u201d surgery on his left knee, president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos told reporters (including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DOBrienATL\/status\/1991355442505941008\" rel=\"nofollow\">David O\u2019Brien of The Athletic<\/a>). The right-hander missed the entire \u201925 season after undergoing surgery to repair cartilage damage in that same knee last November.<\/p>\n<p>While the framing of the surgery as a \u201ccleanup\u201d doesn\u2019t sound especially alarming, the timeline isn\u2019t clear. Anthopoulos said the team won\u2019t know how long he\u2019ll miss until late December at the earliest. That raises some question about his availability for the start of the season, which would be a tough blow for a bullpen that is already lacking right-handed setup options.<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta acquired Jim\u00e9nez from the Tigers going into the 2023 season. He turned in a 3.04 ERA and re-signed on a three-year, $26MM free agent deal. The first season was a success, as the 6\u20193\u2033 hurler fired 68 2\/3 frames of 2.62 ERA ball. Jim\u00e9nez wasn\u2019t able to build off that two-year run last season and evidently didn\u2019t recover as smoothly as hoped from last fall\u2019s procedure.<\/p>\n<p>The Braves <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2025\/11\/braves-re-sign-raisel-iglesias.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">re-signed<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/i\/iglesra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raisel Iglesias<\/a> to a $16MM deal this evening. He\u2019ll be back in the ninth inning. Jim\u00e9nez projects as their top right-handed setup man if healthy. Atlanta declined options on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kinlety01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tyler Kinley<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnspi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pierce Johnson<\/a> to keep as much financial breathing room as possible with needs in the rotation and at shortstop. They brought in a potential stopgap at the latter position with tonight\u2019s acquisition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/dubonma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mauricio Dub\u00f3n<\/a> from Houston. They remain in the market for a better shortstop and still need at least one starter. Uncertainty with Jim\u00e9nez only magnifies their need for a righty leverage piece in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hernada03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2025-11-19_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daysbel Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braves reliever\u00a0Joe Jim\u00e9nez underwent a \u201ccleanup\u201d surgery on his left knee, president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos told&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,170127,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-296796","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-joe-jimenez","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296796","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=296796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}