{"id":754582,"date":"2026-07-18T00:03:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754582\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T00:03:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T00:03:18","slug":"athletics-designated-hitter-brent-rooker-out-for-the-season-after-left-knee-surgery-mlb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/754582\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker out for the season after left knee surgery | MLB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Athletics designated hitter and outfielder Brent Rooker had season-ending left knee surgery Friday, a tough loss of a leader both on and off the field for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The team expects him to return in time for the start of spring training next year.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Tim McAdams and Dr. Mike Freehill performed the debridement procedure of Rooker&#8217;s articular cartilage tear at Stanford Orthopedic Hospital in Redwood City and also removed loose bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Rooker, who has had an injury-plagued year after he played in all 162 games last season, had received a cortisone shot last month for the knee and was rehabilitating from a bone bruise before seeking further evaluation at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>He also missed 15 games in April with a strained right oblique muscle.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star, he batted .200 with 10 home runs and 29 RBIs over 48 games this season. <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/brent-rooker-athletics-contract-2e18c3ba916789efcbbef1d4c451ff64\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rooker received a five-year contract<\/a> worth $60 million ahead of last season.<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                Success! An email has been sent to  with a link to confirm list signup.\n            <\/p>\n<p>\n                Error! There was an error processing your request.\n            <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) \u2014 Athletics designated hitter and outfielder Brent Rooker had season-ending left knee surgery Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2391],"tags":[537,93649,5,4,3226,256,185,7826],"class_list":["post-754582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics","tag-athletics","tag-athletics-brent-rooker-knee-surgery","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-athletics","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-sports","tag-surgery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116938054245216707","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754582","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=754582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}