{"id":672188,"date":"2026-04-10T04:39:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672188\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T04:39:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T04:39:23","slug":"angels-reliever-robert-stephenson-is-out-for-season-with-elbow-injury-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/672188\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels reliever Robert Stephenson is out for season with elbow injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles Angels right-hander Robert Stephenson will miss the 2026 season after having ligament and flexor tendon repair surgery on his right elbow.<\/p>\n<p>It is the continuation of injury woes for Stephenson, who was expected to be one of the team&#8217;s top relievers after signing a three-year, $33 million deal in January 2024. He missed the 2024 season after undergoing an ulnar collateral ligament repair with an internal brace in May 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson was limited to 12 games in 2025 after he was diagnosed with a stretched biceps nerve.<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson, 33, had a setback in spring training after attempting to pitch through thoracic outlet syndrome symptoms he experienced in the offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Angels manager Kurt Suzuki told MLB.com before Wednesday&#8217;s 8-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves that Stephenson&#8217;s latest setback was heartbreaking.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This guy wants to pitch, this guy wants to be good,&#8221; Suzuki said. &#8220;Up until he had that setback in spring training, he was in a good spot mentally. He was excited, he was happy to be back on the mound. So this is heartbreaking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stephenson, who made his major league debut with Cincinnati in 2016, has a 4.69 ERA in nine seasons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Angels right-hander Robert Stephenson will miss the 2026 season after having ligament and flexor tendon repair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2390],"tags":[291,5,1648,1165,446,3223,774,56,3224,3222,4,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-672188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-angels","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-angels","13":"tag-laangels","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-angels","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-losangelesangels","18":"tag-mlb","19":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116378570891961895","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672188","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=672188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}