{"id":310259,"date":"2025-10-17T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310259\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T08:24:12","slug":"yankees-carlos-rodon-undergoes-surgery-that-will-delay-his-2026-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/310259\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees’ Carlos Rodon undergoes surgery that will delay his 2026 start"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming off a workhorse season for the Yankees, Carlos Rod\u00f3n will be sidelined for the start of 2026.<\/p>\n

The left-hander underwent an elbow scope Wednesday to remove loose bodies and shave down a bone spur, which will land him on the injured list to start the regular season, Brian Cashman and Aaron Boone said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The surgery, performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache, comes with an eight-week shutdown from throwing.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you build in the ramp-up and throwing program into getting him ready to be a starting pitcher, probably delays him potentially a couple weeks to start the season,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut everything went well [Wednesday].\u201d<\/p>\n

Cashman said that if Rod\u00f3n does not encounter any issues in his recovery, he could return some time in April or early May.<\/p>\n

\"YankeesYankees left-hander Carlos Rodon, seen here during Game 3 of the ALDS, underwent an elbow procedure on Wednesday. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

The Yankees rotation was projected to be an area of strength heading into next season, but at least initially it will be without Rod\u00f3n, who posted a 3.09 ERA across 195\u2009\u00b9\/\u2083 innings. His final start was less encouraging, getting tagged for six runs across 2 \u00b9\/\u2083 innings in Game 3 of the ALDS against the Blue Jays.<\/p>\n

Rod\u00f3n will join rotation mates Gerrit Cole and Clarke Schmidt on the IL to begin the year, the duo recovering from Tommy John surgery. That leaves their in-house rotation options as Max Fried, Cam Schlittler, Will Warren and Luis Gil.<\/p>\n

Cole is expected to throw off the mound next week for the first time before deloading into the offseason. Boone said he could begin facing hitters at some point during spring training, and though he won\u2019t be ready by Opening Day, his return would be \u201chopefully not too far after.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"YankeesYankees manager Aaron Boone speaks to reporters at Yankee Stadium on Oct. 16, 2025. Charles Wenzelberg \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

Aaron Judge will not need surgery on his right elbow, as The Post reported last week.<\/p>\n

The Yankees captain underwent an MRI exam after the season ended, which showed improved healing from the flexor strain he sustained in July and played through over the final two months. His arm strength was not the same initially, but he looked more like himself by the playoffs.<\/p>\n

Boone said he expects Judge to be the right fielder next season.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019ll take some time off and continue to do strengthening things and rehab and stuff,\u201d Boone said. \u201cBut felt like he finished the season in a pretty good place as we saw continued improvements with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Giancarlo Stanton, who missed the start of the season due to tendinitis in both elbows and eventually played through it, is not expected to need any procedures this offseason.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s in a pretty good place,\u201d Boone said. \u201cHe\u2019ll treat it and everything, but nothing expected for Big G.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Coming off a workhorse season for the Yankees, Carlos Rod\u00f3n will be sidelined for the start of 2026.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":310260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10632,1266,2228,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-310259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-carlos-rodon","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-new-york-yankees","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115388551702127578","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}