{"id":805389,"date":"2026-09-15T05:37:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/805389\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T05:37:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T05:37:03","slug":"rafael-devers-to-undergo-core-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/805389\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Devers To Undergo Core Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/deverra01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rafael Devers<\/a> will indeed undergo left-side core surgery on Tuesday, the Giants told reporters (including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/by_ZachSweet\/status\/2099615961699516748\" rel=\"nofollow\">Zach Sweet of MLB.com<\/a>). The team will have a recovery timetable after the operation is complete.<\/p>\n<p>The Giants surprisingly shut Devers <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2026\/09\/giants-place-rafael-devers-on-60-day-il-select-scott-bandura.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">down for the season<\/a> yesterday. He\u2019d started every game of the season until September 9 after leading MLB with 163 games played last year \u2014 getting the extra game as a scheduling quirk after being traded midseason. Devers has apparently played through core discomfort for the bulk of this season.<\/p>\n<p>That certainly wasn\u2019t evident in his performance. The three-time All-Star overcame another slow start to finish the year with a .258\/.340\/.525 slash line across 633 plate appearances. Devers has kept pace with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crowape01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pete Crow-Armstrong<\/a> as the best hitters in the sport since the beginning of July. Crow-Armstrong is the only player with more home runs than Devers\u2019 22 over that stretch. They\u2019re the only two hitters with 150+ plate appearances and an OPS north of 1.000 in the last two and a half months.<\/p>\n<p>Crow-Armstrong is deservedly on his way to an MVP. Devers doesn\u2019t have nearly the same defensive value, of course, but it\u2019s remarkable that he\u2019s managed to hit at this level while playing through an injury that required surgery. His 37 homers are the most by a Giants hitter since\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bondsba01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Barry Bonds<\/a> connected on 45 back in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Devers and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/eldribr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bryce Eldridge<\/a> are among the best first base\/designated hitter pairings in the sport. They were the two biggest bright spots in an otherwise ugly season for the Giants. They\u2019ve shut down most of their lineup to close one of the worst years in franchise history. San Francisco has nine hitters among an astounding 21 players on the MLB injured list.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chapmma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Matt Chapman<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/schmica01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-15_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Casey Schmitt<\/a> are other regulars who underwent season-ending surgeries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rafael Devers will indeed undergo left-side core surgery on Tuesday, the Giants told reporters (including Zach Sweet of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,863],"class_list":["post-805389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-rafael-devers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117273443964476672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805389","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=805389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}