{"id":525453,"date":"2026-03-09T22:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525453\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T22:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:29:08","slug":"braves-lhp-joey-wentz-to-miss-2026-season-after-tearing-acl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/525453\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves LHP Joey Wentz to miss 2026 season after tearing ACL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH PORT, Florida &#8212; One awkward step has cost <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/atlanta-braves\/239\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta Braves<\/a> left-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/joey-wentz\/917946\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/joey-wentz\/917946\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Wentz<\/a> the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The club said Monday that Wentz tore the ACL in his right knee while covering first base against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/team-page\/tampa-bay-rays\/254\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> on Sunday. There was initial hope that Wentz had avoided serious injury, but further testing revealed the ligament tear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injury is the latest setback for an Atlanta starting rotation that has already seen both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/spencer-schwellenbach\/1119983\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/spencer-schwellenbach\/1119983\" target=\"_blank\">Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hurston-waldrep\/1452097\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/hurston-waldrep\/1452097\" target=\"_blank\">Hurston Waldrep<\/a> placed on the 60-day injured list after undergoing elbow surgery to clean up \u201cloose bodies\u201d in their throwing elbows this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The well-traveled, 28-year-old Wentz was supposed to be in the mix for a spot in the rotation. He posted a 5-7 record with a 5.60 ERA for three teams last season, including a 3-6 mark with a 4.92 ERA in 14 appearances for the Braves (13 starts).<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wentz entered Sunday\u2019s game as a reliever in the fifth inning and had two outs with a man on third when Tampa Bay\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/taylor-walls\/915802\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/mlb\/player\/taylor-walls\/915802\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Walls<\/a> bunted. Wentz went to cover first, stepped gingerly on the bag and collided with Walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH PORT, Florida &#8212; One awkward step has cost Atlanta Braves left-handed pitcher Joey Wentz the 2026 season.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,490,462,82,507],"class_list":["post-525453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-detroit-tigers","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-toronto-blue-jays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525453","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=525453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}