{"id":176330,"date":"2026-02-13T09:13:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176330\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:13:24","slug":"angels-robert-stephenson-one-week-behind-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/176330\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels&#8217; Robert Stephenson: One week behind schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770882970_221_video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/LAA\/los-angeles-angels\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/301.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/players\/1894642\/stephenson\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephenson<\/a> said Wednesday that he&#8217;s about a week behind schedule after dealing with a nerve issue and thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms this offseason, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson insists that he feels good now, and with a bullpen session set for later this week he&#8217;s not worried about missing Opening Day. The veteran reliever missed all of 2024 following UCL reconstruction with an internal brace, and he made only 20 total appearances in 2025 due to more arm problems. It&#8217;s positive news that Stephenson is currently in a good spot, and he will be among those in the mix to close games for the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/teams\/LAA\/los-angeles-angels\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Angels<\/a> in 2026 if he can stay healthy. That said, he remains a major health risk.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stephenson said Wednesday that he&#8217;s about a week behind schedule after dealing with a nerve issue and thoracic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,17997,2866,48806],"class_list":["post-176330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fantasy-baseball","tag-los-angeles-angels","tag-robert-stephenson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}