{"id":547943,"date":"2026-03-20T01:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547943\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T01:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T01:07:12","slug":"giants-birdsong-to-undergo-tommy-john-surgery-miss-entire-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/547943\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants&#8217; Birdsong to undergo Tommy John surgery, miss entire season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/baseball\/mlb\/teams\/san-francisco-giants\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"san-francisco-giants\" data-league=\"mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Francisco Giants<\/a> pitcher Hayden Birdsong will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the 2026 season.<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander had felt soreness in his throwing elbow after pitching in a Cactus League game on March 10. After the Giants diagnosed Birdsong with a forearm strain and ulnar collateral ligament sprain, Birdsong met with Dr. Keith Meister.<\/p>\n<p>Birdsong, 24, went 4-4 with a 4.80 ERA last season while making 21 appearances, including 10 starts. He struck out 68 batters over 65 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. \u2014 San Francisco Giants pitcher Hayden Birdsong will undergo Tommy John surgery and miss the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-547943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547943","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=547943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}