{"id":215773,"date":"2026-06-10T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215773\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T18:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T18:32:08","slug":"phillies-johan-rojas-suffers-ucl-tear-wont-return-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/215773\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; Johan Rojas suffers UCL tear, won&#8217;t return in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-phillies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Philadelphia Phillies<\/a> outfielder <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/42829\/johan-rojas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Johan Rojas<\/a>, who was nearing the end of his <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48226383\/phillies-johan-rojas-suspended-80-games-mlb-failed-drug-test\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">80-game suspension<\/a>, has suffered a UCL tear in his right elbow, will need surgery and will not return this season, the team said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rojas was suspended on March 16 following a positive test for the performance-enhancing substance Boldenone. He had been preparing for his return on June 25, but he instead will now focus on being ready for spring training in 2027.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Rojas, 25, hit .224 with one homer, 18 RBIs and 12 stolen bases for the Phillies in 2025. He was demoted to Triple-A Lehigh Valley on Aug. 1 and didn&#8217;t play for Philadelphia during the remainder of the season. Rojas was 3-for-15 with one RBI for the Phillies during spring training this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He has a .252 career average with six homers, 73 RBIs and 51 stolen bases over 250 games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Johan Rojas, who was nearing the end of his 80-game suspension, has suffered a UCL&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215774,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[94474,1421,1423,139,69,71,70,1425,59980],"class_list":["post-215773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-94474","tag-espn","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-rojas-johan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}