{"id":647106,"date":"2026-05-16T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647106\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T17:43:07","slug":"jose-berrios-to-undergo-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/647106\/","title":{"rendered":"Jose Berrios To Undergo Elbow Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/berrijo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-05-16_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jose Berrios<\/a> will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a stress fracture in his right elbow, as Blue Jays manager John Schneider told <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/thehazelmae\/status\/2055671801531789634\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportsnet\u2019s Hazel Mae<\/a> and other reporters.\u00a0 Dr. Keith Meister will perform the procedure, and it is possible the surgery could be more complicated since \u201cthere is some concern about [Berrios\u2019] ligament,\u201d Mae writes.\u00a0 A recovery timeline (or whether or not Berrios will pitch at all in 2026) therefore won\u2019t be known until the surgery is complete, and a further assessment is made for any ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p>Surgery is perhaps the natural endpoint to what has been an injury-marred nine months for a pitcher once known for his durability.\u00a0 Right elbow inflammation sent Berrios to the 15-day injured list at the end of the 2025 season and kept him from participating in the Blue Jays\u2019 postseason run.\u00a0 As he prepared to pitch for Puerto Rico in this spring\u2019s World Baseball Classic, tests revealed more inflammation and then a stress fracture in Berrios\u2019 right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Toronto placed Berrios on the 15-day IL to begin the season, and he appeared to be on track before more elbow discomfort arose during his minor league rehab assignment.\u00a0 Berrios had an MRI and a previous visit with Dr. Meister last week, and Schneider told reporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/05\/blue-jays-notes-berrios-kirk-barger.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">yesterday<\/a> that surgery was now a possibility, as Berrios could be dealing with loose bodies in his elbow area.<\/p>\n<p>More to come\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jose Berrios will undergo surgery on Wednesday to repair a stress fracture in his right elbow, as Blue&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[379,99],"class_list":["post-647106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-jose-berrios","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}