Atlanta Braves right-hander Reynaldo López will bear arthroscopic surgical procedure to find out if there’s any structural injury to his throwing shoulder, according to MLB’s Mark Bowman. López, positioned on the injured listing on Monday with shoulder irritation, is predicted to overlook a number of months of motion.
“[López] threw a facet yesterday and it went good, however he went in after the facet and needed to have his shoulder checked,” Braves manager Brian Snitker told reporters on Monday. “There’s clearly some irritation in there. We’re getting him checked out at the moment. I have never heard the outcomes but.”
López, 31, authored one of the crucial unexpectedly good seasons in baseball in 2024 after signing with the Braves and changing from reduction work to beginning. He appeared 26 instances (25 of these begins), amassing a 1.99 ERA (208 ERA+) and a 3.52 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Not solely did he make his first profession All-Star Recreation, he earned an Eleventh-place end in Nationwide League Cy Younger Award balloting.
López’s extended absence will come after he made only one begin in 2025: a five-inning effort that noticed him give up three runs on 9 hits and two walks in opposition to the San Diego Padres. Bryce Elder has since taken over the vacated spot in Atlanta’s beginning rotation.
Depend López’s misfortune as the most recent unwelcomed improvement for a Braves staff that entered Tuesday with an 0-5 document on the younger season. The Braves, who will proceed their street collection with the defending World Sequence champion Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday, are additionally at present with out ace Spencer Strider, outfielder Ronald Acuna Jr., catcher Sean Murphy, infielder Ignacio Alvarez Jr., and reliever Joe Jiménez on account of harm.
Moreover, the Braves noticed free-agent signing and outfielder Jurickson Profar receive an 80-game suspension on Monday after he examined optimistic for a performance-enhancing drug named Chorionic Gonadotrophin (hCG).
Even when the Braves can recuperate from their sluggish begin and crop of accidents, Profar shall be ineligible to look on this 12 months’s postseason as a part of his punishment.
