{"id":154282,"date":"2025-07-05T18:22:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154282\/"},"modified":"2025-07-05T18:22:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:22:10","slug":"yankees-starter-clarke-schmidt-likely-needs-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/154282\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt likely needs Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/sports\/mlb\/new-york-yankees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Yankees\u2019<\/a> rotation suffered another blow, as Clarke Schmidt likely needs Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, manager Aaron Boone said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s kind of getting second opinions now, but not great news on that front obviously,\u201d Boone said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/07\/03\/yankees-clarke-schmidt-leaves-start-blue-jays-forearm-tightness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Schmidt, 29, exited Thursday\u2019s start<\/a> in Toronto after three innings, then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/07\/04\/clarke-schmidt-injured-list-yankees-boone-cam-schlittler\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">landed on the injured list Friday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He has a 3.32 ERA this season.<\/p>\n<p>Developing story, check back for updates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yankees\u2019 rotation suffered another blow, as Clarke Schmidt likely needs Tommy John surgery on his right elbow,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2376],"tags":[1797,5,1216,4499,4,1690,62,2548,2547,6408,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-154282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-yankees","8":"tag-aaron-boone","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-clarke-schmidt","11":"tag-elbow-injury","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-yankees","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkyankees","17":"tag-tommy-john-surgery","18":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114802022614748867","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}