{"id":488212,"date":"2026-02-20T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488212\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:39:08","slug":"pablo-lopez-to-undergo-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/488212\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo L\u00f3pez To Undergo Tommy John Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twins right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lopezpa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-20_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pablo L\u00f3pez<\/a> will have Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronGleeman\/status\/2024914298686873897?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic<\/a>. Earlier this week, it was <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/twins-pablo-lopez-ucl-tear-surgery-tommy-john.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the Twins revealed<\/a>\u00a0that he had tearing in his right elbow\u2019s ulnar collateral ligament. He took a few days to explore a second opinion but it seems there was no avoiding the worst-case scenario.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll be the second Tommy John procedure for L\u00f3pez. His first was more than a decade ago. He\u2019ll miss the entire 2026 season and hope to be ready early in the 2027 campaign, which will be the final season of his four-year, $73.5MM contract with the Twins.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Twins right-hander Pablo L\u00f3pez will have Tommy John surgery on Wednesday, per Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic. Earlier&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":479644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,44198,82],"class_list":["post-488212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}