{"id":245167,"date":"2026-07-16T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245167\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T20:07:07","slug":"phillies-brad-keller-has-torn-ucl-likely-done-for-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/245167\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillies&#8217; Brad Keller has torn UCL, likely done for season"},"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> reliever <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/35292\/brad-keller\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Brad Keller<\/a> has a torn UCL and is expected to miss the rest of the season, the team announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">If Keller, who was placed on the injury list, undergoes surgery on his right elbow, it would keep him out a significant portion, if not all, of 2027 as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 30-year-old right-hander is 2-1 with a 4.02 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 31 innings over 32 appearances this season. He has three saves, which ties his career high.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Keller, a nine-year veteran, signed a two-year, $22 million deal with Philadelphia over the winter after a resurgent 2025 season with the <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/chc\/chicago-cubs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chicago Cubs<\/a> in which he compiled a 2.07 ERA in 68 appearances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">To fill his spot on the 26-man roster, the Phillies recalled Seth Johnson from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 ESPN Internet Ventures. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Phillies reliever Brad Keller has a torn UCL and is expected to miss the rest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[104970,1421,76404,1423,139,69,71,70,1425],"class_list":["post-245167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-104970","tag-espn","tag-keller-brad","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245167","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=245167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}