{"id":416489,"date":"2025-11-05T07:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/416489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:51:12","slug":"padres-ace-darvish-to-miss-2026-mlb-season-after-surgery-national-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/416489\/","title":{"rendered":"Padres ace Darvish to miss 2026 MLB season after surgery | National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish said Tuesday he will miss the entire 2026 Major League Baseball season after undergoing surgery to repair injured tendons in his elbow.<\/p>\n<p>The 39-year-old right-hander, who holds the record for the most strikeouts in MLB by a Japanese pitcher, revealed the injury news in a post on social media.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last Wednesday, I underwent elbow surgery &#8230; I will not be able to pitch in games during the 2026 season,&#8221; Darvish wrote. &#8220;I will work hard on my rehabilitation to be able to throw a ball comfortably again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Darvish said he had also had an internal brace fitted to his ulnar collateral ligament in his elbow.<\/p>\n<p>Darvish, a five-time All-Star, moved to the major leagues in 2012, beginning his career with the Texas Rangers.<\/p>\n<p>He spent subsequent stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs before joining the Padres in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>rcw\/ea<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Padres pitcher Yu Darvish said Tuesday he will miss the entire 2026 Major League Baseball season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42644,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-416489","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-afp","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115496005725661300","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416489","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=416489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}