{"id":66360,"date":"2025-11-23T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66360\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T09:56:21","slug":"grayson-rodriguez-hopeful-after-most-recent-elbow-procedure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/66360\/","title":{"rendered":"Grayson Rodriguez ‘hopeful’ after most recent elbow procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no way Grayson Rodriguez could know it at the time but an innocuous start in July 2024 would be his last for the Baltimore Orioles. Rodriguez would be a late injury scratch the following week. And then he’d sit out the rest of his sophomore season and the entire 2025 campaign with a string of lat and elbow injuries. After months on the IL, Rodriguez opted to undergo elbow surgery<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n

The procedure removed bone spurs that the pitcher believes had been causing his chronic injury issues. Feeling back to his old self and ready for spring training 2026, Rodriguez learned he\u2019d been traded to the Los Angeles Angels<\/a>. And, to his surprise, the team was confident in his health. So much so that the Angels didn\u2019t require a physical before completing the trade.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is grateful to move forward<\/a> with his new team. \u201cGetting these bone spurs out has been a huge relief. Hopefully, this is all behind us and in the past,\u201d Rodriguez said, per Foul Territory. \u201cObviously you don\u2019t want to go through a season like I had last year where you don\u2019t even throw an inning. But you can kinda just look back and reflect\u2026 and just move on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Grayson Rodriguez embraces move to Angels\"BaltimoreReggie Hildred-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Rodriguez is ready to start fresh with the Angels<\/a>. But he’s still amazed at the journey he took over the last two years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve tried to see just about every doctor there is to try to figure out [what\u2019s causing the recurrence]. You know, there\u2019s no surgery required for any of this\u2026 You\u2019re just trying to figure out why it keeps happening\u2026. And everybody we spoke with, we all kinda came back to the same conclusion of having the bone spurs in there and the elbow not being able to get to full extension,\u201d Rodriguez explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can\u2019t get out there [and fully extend], you can\u2019t slow your arm down quick enough, your lat\u2019s firing twice as hard. It\u2019s having to work just as much, so it all kinda comes back to the same conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fortunately, elbow surgery broke the vicious cycle Rodriguez was trapped in. Now the 26-year-old righty will attempt to move on with the Angels.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles made the most of Taylor Ward\u2019s expiring contract and traded the power-hitting outfielder for Rodriguez, who\u2019s under club control until the 2028 season. It was a gutsy move by the Angles. But one that could pay off if the pitcher, now healthy, returns to form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no way Grayson Rodriguez could know it at the time but an innocuous start in July 2024…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,36470,2866,1334,38973],"class_list":{"0":"post-66360","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anaheim","8":"tag-anaheim","9":"tag-anaheim-headlines","10":"tag-anaheim-news","11":"tag-grayson-rodriguez","12":"tag-los-angeles-angels","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-mlb-injury"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360","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=66360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}