{"id":488382,"date":"2026-02-18T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488382\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:58:08","slug":"spencer-schwellenbach-hurston-waldrep-to-undergo-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/488382\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Schwellenbach, Hurston Waldrep To Undergo Elbow Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braves righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schwesp01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a> underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow today, manager Walt Weiss told the team\u2019s beat this morning (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/2024178117758119988\" rel=\"nofollow\">link Mark Bowman of MLB.com<\/a>). Fellow righty Hurtson Waldrep, who was also diagnosed with loose bodies in his elbow this spring, will undergo a similar operation on Monday. Weiss and the Braves have not put a formal timetable for a return on either young righty. Schwellenbach is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/braves-spencer-schwellenbach-60-day-injured-list-elbow.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already on the 60-day injured list<\/a>, and Waldrep will surely join him there whenever Atlanta needs to open another 40-man spot.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braves righty Spencer Schwellenbach underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow today, manager Walt Weiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,228184,591,204622,85],"class_list":["post-488382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-hurston-waldrep","tag-mlb","tag-spencer-schwellenbach","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488382","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=488382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}