{"id":579072,"date":"2026-02-18T10:34:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579072\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:34:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:34:28","slug":"pablo-lopez-could-need-season-ending-surgery-for-torn-ucl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579072\/","title":{"rendered":"Pablo Lopez could need season-ending surgery for torn UCL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a> are currently taking part in spring training as they gear up for the upcoming 2026 MLB season. The <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins\/twins-news-minnesota-signs-former-yankees-infielder-minor-league-deal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twins are hoping to bounce back<\/a> after two straight years of missing the playoffs, but unfortunately, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/mlb\/minnesota-twins\/twins-news-pablo-lopez-elbow-injury-scare-spring-training\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota got some bad news<\/a> on Tuesday morning regarding one of their star players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPablo L\u00f3pez has a torn elbow ligament and \u2018surgery is very much on the table&#8217; according to Twins general manager Jeremy Zoll,\u201d reported Aaron Gleeman of The Athletic on X, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronGleeman\/status\/2023799809971544108\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">formerly Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPablo L\u00f3pez has significant tearing of his UCL. Going for a second opinion,\u201d confirmed Dan Hayes of The Athletic, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DanHayesMLB\/status\/2023799952624005332\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">who also noted<\/a> that the surgery could be an option, which would end Lopez&#8217;s season.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes also reported that \u201cPablo L\u00f3pez is hoping for miracle, but acknowledges surgery is a reasonable option.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lopez is one of the few remaining veterans on the Twins&#8217; roster after their trade deadline fire sale last year, which came amid the team&#8217;s losing skid following an impressive winning streak earlier in the year.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins broke through and made the playoffs in the 2023 season, but have followed that up with two straight campaigns of missing out on the big dance, which played a big role in their decision to part with so much veteran talent last year.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Lopez is one of the best starting pitchers in MLB today, and the prospect of losing him for any extended period of time, let alone the entire season, would certainly be devastating for the Twins and their fans, and could certainly motivate future roster decisions for the team.<\/p>\n<p>The MLB season is slated to begin in late March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Twins are currently taking part in spring training as they gear up for the upcoming 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,822,60,3190,4,3410,1997,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-579072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-minnesota","10":"tag-minnesota-twins","11":"tag-minnesotatwins","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-mlb-injury","14":"tag-pablo-lopez","15":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116091189027199531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579072","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=579072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}