{"id":576303,"date":"2026-02-16T22:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576303\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T22:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T22:30:28","slug":"minnesota-twins-starter-pablo-lopez-ends-bullpen-session-early-over-elbow-soreness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576303\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins starter Pablo L\u00f3pez ends bullpen session early over elbow soreness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota Twins right-hander Pablo L\u00f3pez ended a bullpen session early on Monday over what manager Derek Shelton said was &#8220;a little bit of elbow soreness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez, who turns 30 next month, threw two-plus innings before shutting things down. He was considered ahead of schedule in preparations to join Venezuela for the World Baseball Classic.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00f3pez has been the opening day starter for the Twins the past three seasons. He was limited to 75 2\/3 innings last year, with three stints on the injured list for hamstring, shoulder and forearm issues.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 All-Star had made 32 starts in each season from 2022-24, the first of those with Miami before a pair with Minnesota. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We decided, out of an abundance of caution, let&#8217;s get him off, let&#8217;s get him off the field and make sure he&#8217;s OK,&#8221; Shelton told reporters at the club&#8217;s spring training facility. &#8220;We&#8217;ll get some imaging on it, just because of how important it is and he is to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lopez was 5-4 with a 2.74 ERA last season. He won 10 games in each of the previous three seasons, capped by a career-best 15 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota Twins right-hander Pablo L\u00f3pez ended a bullpen session early on Monday over what manager Derek Shelton said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,182,19,822,60,3190,4,185,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-576303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-major-league-baseball","11":"tag-minnesota","12":"tag-minnesota-twins","13":"tag-minnesotatwins","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116082680686630836","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576303","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=576303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}