{"id":469215,"date":"2026-02-09T21:28:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469215\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:28:19","slug":"diamondbacks-saalfrank-has-shoulder-surgery-to-miss-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/469215\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks&#8217; Saalfrank has shoulder surgery, to miss season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ari\/arizona-diamondbacks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> left-handed pitcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5001155\/andrew-saalfrank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Saalfrank<\/a> will miss the season after shoulder surgery, the team confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was expected to be an important part of the team&#8217;s bullpen after compiling a 1.24 ERA over 28 appearances last season. The Diamondbacks did not say how Saalfrank got hurt, adding manager Torey Lovullo will address the injury on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s another hit for the pitching staff, which already is without relievers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/36201\/aj-puk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A.J. Puk<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5116851\/justin-martinez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Martinez<\/a>, along with ace starter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/39878\/corbin-burnes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corbin Burnes<\/a>, for the first few months of the season. All three are recovering from elbow surgery and hope to be back during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Saalfrank called the surgery a &#8220;tough pill to swallow&#8221; on social media, adding that &#8220;the game of baseball can be a brutal one, but it&#8217;s also given me some of the best moments of my life, and I don&#8217;t expect that to change moving forward.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX &#8212; Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitcher Andrew Saalfrank will miss the season after shoulder surgery, the team confirmed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-469215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469215","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=469215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}