{"id":574396,"date":"2026-02-15T20:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/574396\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:02:21","slug":"hurston-waldrep-out-indefinitely-with-loose-bodies-in-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/574396\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurston Waldrep out indefinitely with \u201cloose bodies\u201d in elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That Atlanta Braves have taken another blow to their potential starting rotation with news this afternoon that starting pitcher Hurston Waldrep had an MRI after experiencing discomfort in his elbow while throwing batting practice. The MRI showed \u201cloose bodies\u201d but no ligament damage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Braves manager Walt Weiss met with the media and gave some additional details on Waldrep\u2019s status. Weiss said Waldrep will be meeting with doctors on Monday. The assumption is that some type of procedure will be needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Waldrep had a strong showing after joining Atlanta\u2019s starting rotation in August 2025. Because he had options available, and other starting pitching options like Bryce Elder, Grant Holmes and Joey Wentz do not, it would have been possible Waldrep would have started the season at Triple-A to preserve the organization\u2019s roster flexibility even if he would have otherwise been part of the Opening Day rotation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now is seems likely Waldrep will not be an option for the Opening Day rotation regardless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That Atlanta Braves have taken another blow to their potential starting rotation with news this afternoon that starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4244,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-574396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-injuries","11":"tag-atlanta-braves-news","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-braves","15":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116076435639220100","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574396","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=574396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}