{"id":103550,"date":"2024-03-12T04:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T04:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlbhi.aweu.info\/?p=103550"},"modified":"2024-03-12T04:10:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T04:10:26","slug":"red-sox-rhp-lucas-giolito-to-undergo-elbow-procedure-hong-nhung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/red-sox-rhp-lucas-giolito-to-undergo-elbow-procedure-hong-nhung\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox RHP Lucas Giolito to undergo elbow procedure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito will undergo elbow surgery Tuesday to determine the severity of an injury that occurred earlier in spring training, multiple outlets reported.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/albanyherald.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/5\/14\/5149055e-11f3-5bcc-bc30-ca87b5314aa7\/65ef7cf5d2ee5.image.jpg\" alt=\"Red Sox RHP Lucas Giolito to undergo elbow procedure | Sports |  albanyherald.com\" width=\"575\" height=\"385\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Giolito, 29, was signed by the Red Sox this past offseason to a two-year, $38.5 million deal, with the first year of that contract in danger of being a wash. While Tommy John surgery was a possibility, that will not be determined until Tuesday&#8217;s procedure in Birmingham, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>The initial injury was diagnosed as a partial tear in Giolito&#8217;s ulnar collateral ligament as well as a forearm flexor tendon strain.<\/p>\n<p>An All-Star in 2019 for the Chicago White Sox, when he also finished sixth in American League Cy Young Award voting, Giolito has struggled in recent seasons, delivering a 4.90 ERA in 2022 and a 4.88 mark last season when he went 8-15 while pitching for the White Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Cleveland Guardians.<\/p>\n<p>In eight major league seasons, Giolito is 61-62 in 180 appearances (178 starts) and has a 4.43 ERA with 1,077 strikeouts in 1,013 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Giolito had Tommy John surgery in 2012, while still getting drafted in the first round by the Washington Nationals, even though he needed the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Red Sox right-hander Lucas Giolito will undergo elbow surgery Tuesday to determine the severity of an injury that occurred earlier in spring training, multiple outlets reported&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":103552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nbahang.aweu.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}