{"id":617296,"date":"2026-03-10T19:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617296\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:03:16","slug":"hunter-greene-out-into-july-following-elbow-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/617296\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunter Greene Out Into July Following Elbow Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reds ace Hunter Greene<\/a> will undergo surgery to remove bone chips from his right elbow today, per Gordon Wittenmyer of the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>. The team is hoping to have him back at some point in July. He\u2019ll be placed on the 60-day injured list whenever Cincinnati needs to open a spot on the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

The Reds revealed late last week that they\u2019d sent Greene for multiple waves of imaging<\/a> and hoped to have further news early this week. Greene himself said at the time that he\u2019s navigated bone spurs for some time but had recently received a clean MRI on his ulnar collateral ligament. Doctors hadn\u2019t recommended surgery for the bone chips until this point. He experienced some pain late last season, and doctors recommended an injection at the time. That allowed Greene to have a normal offseason, but he experienced renewed discomfort upon ramping up in camp and will now head under the knife.<\/p>\n

Greene is far from the only pitcher in MLB to pitch through some known bone spurs or loose bodies in his elbow. Most professional pitchers have some degree of wear and tear in their elbow and\/or shoulder, be it bone chips or mild damage to a ligament, flexor tendon, rotator cuff, labrum, etc. Reds fans will surely feel frustration that the discomfort dates back to last season but is being addressed in 2026. Surgery is a last-resort option, however, and hadn\u2019t been recommended until this latest wave of discomfort set in.<\/p>\n

Losing Greene is a gut-punch for a Reds rotation that had looked like one of the game\u2019s strongest, on paper. He was in line to start Opening Day and be followed by Andrew Abbott<\/a>, Nick Lodolo<\/a>, Brady Singer<\/a> and one of Chase Burns<\/a> or Rhett Lowder<\/a>, both former top-10 picks in the draft and highly touted top prospects. Greene\u2019s injury now opens the door for both Burns and Lowder to make the staff \u2014 particularly after Chase Petty<\/a> was optioned yesterday \u2014 although left-hander Brandon Williamson<\/a> remains in camp and could be an option as he returns from a 2025 season lost to injury.<\/p>\n

A former No. 2 overall draft pick, Greene has been one of the game\u2019s best pitchers on a rate basis over the past two seasons. However, he\u2019s also missed considerable time due to a pair of groin strains in 2025 and some elbow discomfort in 2024. He\u2019s started 45 games across dating back to \u201924 and worked to a 2.76 ERA with a 29.2% strikeout rate, 8.1% walk rate and 33.5% ground-ball rate. Last year\u2019s 15.4% swinging-strike rate was fourth-best in MLB (min. 100 innings pitched), trailing only Tarik Skubal<\/a>,\u00a0Dylan Cease<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Logan Gilbert<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Greene is entering the fourth season of a six-year, $53MM extension. The 26-year-old is being paid $8MM this season before making $15MM and $16MM in 2027-28. The Reds hold a $21MM club option (with a $2MM buyout) over his 2029 season. With Greene on the shelf to begin the year, Abbott has been named the Reds\u2019 Opening Day starter. President of baseball operations Nick Krall said last week<\/a> at the time Greene was being sent for an MRI that he didn\u2019t envision turning to free agency even in the event that Greene would be sidelined for a significant period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reds ace Hunter Greene will undergo surgery to remove bone chips from his right elbow today, per Gordon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,2102],"class_list":{"0":"post-617296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-hunter-greene"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116206437336606094","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617296","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=617296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}