{"id":611258,"date":"2026-04-17T23:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T23:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T23:56:08","slug":"cardinals-minor-league-pitcher-fitts-has-season-ending-surgery-to-repair-a-right-lat-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/611258\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; minor league pitcher Fitts has season-ending surgery to repair a right lat injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOUSTON &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/stl\/st-louis-cardinals\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Louis<\/a> minor league pitcher Richard Fitts had season-ending surgery this week to repair an injury to his right lat that landed him on the injured list earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Long term prognosis should be good,&#8221; Cardinals&#8217; president of baseball operations Chaim Bloom said Friday. &#8220;We&#8217;re confident he&#8217;s going to bounce back and be just fine but, he&#8217;s not going to pitch again this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fitts was 2-0 with a 1.76 ERA in three starts for Triple-A Memphis this season. He is in his first season with the Cardinals after joining the team this offseason from the Red Sox as part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32082\/sonny-gray\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sonny Gray<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Oliver Marmol said they were impressed with Fitts during spring training and were hoping he could help the team at some point this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He did really well, and it&#8217;s someone that we definitely were going to count on providing some innings and helping when the time presented itself this year,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Really unfortunate because it&#8217;s someone that we definitely would have liked to see and just a really good competitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The right-hander is 2-5 with a 3.97 ERA in 15 games with 14 starts over two seasons with the Red Sox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOUSTON &#8212; St. Louis minor league pitcher Richard Fitts had season-ending surgery this week to repair an injury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-611258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611258","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=611258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}