{"id":671252,"date":"2026-04-09T00:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671252\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T00:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T00:46:17","slug":"orioles-zach-eflin-undergoes-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/671252\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles&#8217; Zach Eflin undergoes Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-clubhouse-guid=\"9ca473b8-e73e-a33d-8ea0-b4d160be4be7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bal\/baltimore-orioles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a> right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"84677d10-4742-cff6-2704-1deaa80186fb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/32804\/zach-eflin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zach Eflin<\/a> had season-ending Tommy John surgery Wednesday, the team announced.<\/p>\n<p>Eflin had received a second opinion on his right elbow from Dr. Keith Meister, who performed the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Eflin, who turned 32 on Wednesday, was pulled after 3\u2154 innings in his first start against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"4fa2cf46-09fc-255f-74a1-2a8857b0e671\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/tex\/texas-rangers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Rangers<\/a> on March 31 due to right elbow discomfort. The team had transferred him to the 60-day injured list Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Eflin landed on IL three times in 2025 because of lat and back ailments and finished 6-5 with a 5.93 ERA in 14 starts. He re-signed with the team for $10 million in the offseason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baltimore Orioles right-hander Zach Eflin had season-ending Tommy John surgery Wednesday, the team announced. Eflin had received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-671252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116371992352096168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671252","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=671252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}