{"id":532587,"date":"2026-01-22T13:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532587\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T13:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T13:15:07","slug":"atlanta-braves-ss-ha-seong-kim-out-4-5-months-with-hand-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/532587\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves SS Ha-Seong Kim out 4-5 months with hand injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expected to enter the 2026 season as the Atlanta Braves’<\/a> starting shortstop, Ha-Seong Kim<\/a> will instead be sidelined four to five months due to an offseason injury to his hand.<\/p>\n

The Braves announced Sunday<\/a> that Kim suffered a torn tendon in his right ring finger while in his homeland of Korea. He underwent surgery Jan. 18 in Atlanta.<\/p>\n

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Kim, 30, was signed last September by the Braves<\/a> after the Tampa Bay Rays<\/a> put him on waivers. He hit .253 with three home runs and 12 RBI in 24 games for Atlanta, and was re-signed to a one-year, $20 million contract this offseason.<\/p>\n

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Atlanta Braves shortstop Ha-Seong Kim throws the ball to first base for an out against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the seventh inning at Truist Park on Sept. 27, 2025.<\/p>\n

Kim won a Gold Glove as a utilityman with the San Diego Padres<\/a> in 2023 and was the favorite to start at shortstop this season in Atlanta. Instead, the Braves will likely have two-time Gold Glove utilityman Mauricio Dubon<\/a> starting there on opening day.<\/p>\n

In five major league seasons since signing with the Padres in 2021 after years in the KBO, Kim has hit .242\/.324\/.377 with 52 homers and 84 stolen bases.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Braves’ Ha-Seong Kim to miss 4-5 months following hand surgery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Expected to enter the 2026 season as the Atlanta Braves’ starting shortstop, Ha-Seong Kim will instead be sidelined…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532588,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4166,5,192,1417,633,3617,4,18,68],"class_list":["post-532587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-gold-glove","tag-ha-seong-kim","tag-mauricio-dubon","tag-mlb","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-tampa-bay-rays"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115938940236663854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532587","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=532587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}