{"id":565869,"date":"2026-02-11T08:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565869\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:57:30","slug":"heritage-grad-saalfrank-out-for-season-with-diamondbacks-with-shoulder-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/565869\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage grad Saalfrank out for season with Diamondbacks with shoulder injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">PHOENIX (WPTA) &#8211; Heritage graduate and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Andrew Saalfrank announced he will miss the 2026 MLB season after undergoing shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saalfrank tells 21Alive Sports he had bone spurs removed and a slight labrum repair due to time and a heavy workload, and his recovery is expected to take anywhere from 10 to 16 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pitcher made his MLB debut for the Diamondbacks in 2023, this would have been his fourth season in the Big Leagues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WPTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (WPTA) &#8211; Heritage graduate and Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Andrew Saalfrank announced he will miss the 2026 MLB&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[146,22,4314,12691,5,38,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-565869","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-azfamily","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116051171334218369","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565869","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=565869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}