{"id":490286,"date":"2025-03-11T03:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=490286"},"modified":"2025-03-11T03:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T07:17:21","slug":"yankees-gerrit-cole-to-undergo-season-ending-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/yankees-gerrit-cole-to-undergo-season-ending-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Yankees\u2019 Gerrit Cole to undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees suffered a massive blow as ace Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, sidelining him for the entire 2025 season. The 34-year-old right-hander will have the procedure performed by Dr. Neal ElAttrache on Tuesday at the Cedars-Sinai Kerlan-Jobe Institute in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Gerrit Cole shares a heartfelt message with Yankees fans. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JbZN2pliFR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/JbZN2pliFR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MLB (@MLB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB\/status\/1899238964575252929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 10, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t the news any athlete wants to hear, but it\u2019s the necessary next step for my career,\u201d Cole said in a statement. \u201cI have a lot left to give, and I\u2019m fully committed to the work ahead. &#8230; I can\u2019t wait to be back on the mound \u2014 stronger than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cole, who experienced discomfort following his second spring training start, is the latest in a growing list of Yankees injuries. AL Rookie of the Year Luis Gil is also out for at least three months with a strained lat, while Giancarlo Stanton (tendon pain in both elbows) and DJ LeMahieu (calf strain) remain sidelined.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the setbacks, manager Aaron Boone remains optimistic. \u201cIt\u2019s not a death sentence for us by any means, so it\u2019s an opportunity for someone else,\u201d Boone told the YES Network. \u201cThe reality is Gerrit still has a lot of pitching in front of him in his career and pitching with the Yankees, and we want that to be as successful as it\u2019s been already.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees suffered a massive blow as ace Gerrit Cole will undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, sidelining him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":490287,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16902],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[22845,18990],"acf":{"announce":"\u201cI have a lot left to give, and I\u2019m fully committed to the work ahead\", he said","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/490286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/490286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490288,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/490286\/revisions\/490288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/490287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490286"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=490286"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=490286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}