{"id":579647,"date":"2026-02-18T18:17:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579647\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:17:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:17:34","slug":"spencer-schwellenbach-hurston-waldrep-to-undergo-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/579647\/","title":{"rendered":"Spencer Schwellenbach, Hurston Waldrep To Undergo Elbow Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Braves righty <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schwesp01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-18_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spencer Schwellenbach<\/a> underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow today, manager Walt Weiss told the team\u2019s beat this morning (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mlbbowman\/status\/2024178117758119988\" rel=\"nofollow\">link Mark Bowman of MLB.com<\/a>). Fellow righty <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/w\/waldrhu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-02-18_br\">Hurston Waldrep<\/a>, who was also diagnosed with loose bodies in his elbow this spring, will undergo a similar operation on Monday. Weiss and the Braves have not put a formal timetable for a return on either young righty. Schwellenbach is <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/02\/braves-spencer-schwellenbach-60-day-injured-list-elbow.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">already on the 60-day injured list<\/a>, and Waldrep will surely join him there whenever Atlanta needs to open another 40-man spot.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Braves righty Spencer Schwellenbach underwent surgery to remove loose bodies from his right elbow today, manager Walt Weiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579648,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,38015,4,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-579647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-hurston-waldrep","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-spencer-schwellenbach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116093013186047617","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579647","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=579647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}