{"id":662276,"date":"2026-04-04T05:33:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662276\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T05:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:33:30","slug":"seibu-lions-haruto-yamada-undergoes-right-elbow-surgery-expected-to-be-out-for-four-months-last-season-he-was-a-key-part-of-the-teams-win-formula-appearing-in-49-games-with-era-2-08-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/662276\/","title":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Haruto Yamada undergoes right elbow surgery; expected to be out for four months. Last season, he was a key part of the team&#8217;s win formula, appearing in 49 games with ERA 2.08. | Pacific League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Seibu Lions] Haruto Yamada undergoes right elbow surgery; expected to be out for four months. Last season, he was a key part of the team&#8217;s win formula, appearing in 49 games with ERA 2.08.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_source\">Sports Hochi<\/p>\n<p>                    March 16, 2026 13:50<\/p>\n<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260316-OHT1I51152-L.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1119\" alt=\"Haruto Yamada\" data-wovn-src:-original-alt=\"\u5c71\u7530\u967d\u7fd4\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Seibu Lions announced on the 16th that pitcher Haruto Yamada underwent &#8220;arthroscopic cleaning of the right elbow joint&#8221; at a hospital in Kanagawa Prefecture on the 9th. He is expected to be out of action for four months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-detail_text\">Last season, his third as a professional, Yamada made his debut in a first-team game and became a key part of the team&#8217;s win formula, appearing in 49 games with ERA of 2.08. He was expected to perform well this season as well, even though closer Taira has returned to being a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[Seibu Lions] Haruto Yamada undergoes right elbow surgery; expected to be out for four months. Last season, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2302],"tags":[5,2353,2352],"class_list":{"0":"post-662276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-npb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-nippon-professional-baseball","10":"tag-npb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116344810336043283","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662276","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=662276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}