{"id":563431,"date":"2026-02-10T02:42:54","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563431\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T02:42:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:42:54","slug":"diamondbacks-left-hander-andrew-saalfrank-has-shoulder-surgery-will-miss-all-of-2026-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/563431\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks left-hander Andrew Saalfrank has shoulder surgery, will miss all of 2026 | Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitcher Andrew Saalfrank will miss the season after shoulder surgery, the team confirmed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old was expected to be an important part of the team&#8217;s bullpen after compiling a 1.24 ERA over 28 appearances last season. The Diamondbacks did not say how Saalfrank got hurt, adding manager Torey Lovullo will address the injury on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>kAmxEVD 2?@E96C 9:E 7@C E96 A:E49:?8 DE277[ H9:49 2=C625J \ud83d\ude00 H:E9@FE C6=:6G6CD p]y] !F&lt; 2?5 yFDE:? |2CE:?6K[ 2=@?8 H:E9 246 DE2CE6C r@C3:? qFC?6D[ 7@C E96 7:CDE 76H &gt;@?E9D @7 E96 D62D@?] p== E9C66 2C6 C64@G6C:?8 7C@&gt; 6=3@H DFC86CJ 2?5 9@A6 E@ 36 324&lt; 5FC:?8 E96 DF&gt;&gt;6C]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm$22=7C2?&lt; 42==65 E96 DFC86CJ 2 \u201cE@F89 A:== E@ DH2==@H\u201d @? D@4:2= &gt;65:2[ 255:?8 E92E \u201cE96 82&gt;6 @7 32D632== 42? 36 2 3CFE2= @?6[ 3FE :EVD 2=D@ 8:G6? &gt;6 D@&gt;6 @7 E96 36DE &gt;@&gt;6?ED @7 &gt;J =:76[ 2?5 x 5@?VE 6IA64E E92E E@ 492?86 &gt;@G:?8 7@CH2C5]\u201dk^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! |{qi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^|{qQm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^|{qk^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AP) \u2014 Arizona Diamondbacks left-handed pitcher Andrew Saalfrank will miss the season after shoulder surgery, the team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,5,38,4,3618,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-563431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-arizona","9":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","10":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-diamondbacks","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-national_sports","15":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116044038383749696","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563431","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=563431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}