{"id":277680,"date":"2026-04-21T00:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277680\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:28:07","slug":"dodgers-closer-edwin-diaz-will-have-elbow-surgery-and-is-expected-to-miss-about-3-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/277680\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz will have elbow surgery and is expected to miss about 3 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz will undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow and is expected to miss about three months, the team announced Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure will be performed Wednesday at the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles, and D\u00edaz is not expected back until the second half of the season.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers placed the 32-year-old right-hander on the 15-day injured list and recalled left-hander Jake Elder from Triple-A Oklahoma City. Elder, was acquired from the Washington Nationals on April 1 for cash, has allowed two runs in 5 1\/3 innings this season with Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00edaz is 1-0 with a 10.50 ERA, 10 strikeouts and four saves in five opportunities over seven appearances. He gave up three runs without recording an out in Sunday&#8217;s 9-6 loss at Colorado. He has allowed three earned runs in each of his past two appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers signed the three-time All-Star to a three-year, $69 million deal last December after he opted out of the final two years and $38 million of his contract with the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time defending World Series champion Dodgers were set to close out their four-game series against the Rockies on Monday night before continuing a seven-game trip with a series at San Francisco that starts Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz will undergo surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow and is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,53,50,49,3834,127,19316],"class_list":{"0":"post-277680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-la","9":"tag-la-headlines","10":"tag-la-news","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","13":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","14":"tag-los-angeles-news","15":"tag-major-league-baseball","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-washington-nationals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277680","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=277680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}