{"id":15258,"date":"2018-10-12T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=15258"},"modified":"2018-10-12T15:14:08","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T19:14:08","slug":"didi-gregorius-undergo-tommy-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2018\/10\/12\/didi-gregorius-undergo-tommy-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Didi Gregorius to undergo Tommy John Sugery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees were officially eliminated from the playoffs Oct. 9 by the Boston Red Sox. While losing to their archrivals is bad enough, the end of the week saw more bad news come down for the Yankees. The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YESNetwork\/status\/1050789537700405249\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">team announced<\/a> in a Friday press conference that shortstop <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gregodi01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Didi Gregorius<\/a><\/strong> will undergo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/johnto01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tommy John<\/a> surgery on his throwing elbow in the off-season.<\/p>\n<p>The team believes he suffered the fateful injury in the ALDS during a play in Boston. However, General Manager <strong>Brian Cashman<\/strong> admitted Gregorius did have a partial tear in his elbow when he was acquired from Arizona. Recovery times from the operation have varied, and Yankees manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/booneaa01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aaron Boone<\/a> <\/strong>remains optimistic that Gregorius will return to action in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN reporter Coley Harvey shared comments from Cashman and Boone on the injury:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Didi Gregorius underwent an MRI Thurs, is undergoing Tommy John surgery at a to-be-determined time. Yankees believe he hurt it in one of the games in Boston. Aaron Boone is \u201coptimistic he\u2019ll be back at some point during the season &#8230; a realistic chance he plays bulk of season\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColeyHarvey\/status\/1050788666862432256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Brian Cashman says when Didi Gregorius was acquired from Arizona, he had a partial tear in his elbow that was asymptomatic. It was:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;the finishing part of something that was a sleeping giant, I guess.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Coley Harvey (@ColeyHarvey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ColeyHarvey\/status\/1050792681000062981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">October 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Didi Gregorius to undergo Tommy John Sugery<\/h2>\n<p>The Yankees and their deep lineup appear well-suited to deal with the absence of Gregorius. However, he will be missed as he as brought stability to the shortstop position in the post-<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/j\/jeterde01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derek Jeter<\/a> <\/strong>era. In four seasons in New York, Gregorius has slashed .274\/.319\/.447 while appearing in 578 games. He is coming off three consecutive season of at least 20 home runs, 23 doubles, and 68 runs scored. Gregorius also finished third-highest among Yankees position players in bWAR at 4.2.<\/p>\n<p>Gregorius has made three post-season appearances with the Yankees and has proven to be one of the key left-handed bats in the lineup. Though he managed just three hits in the ALDS against Boston, his loss will leave a void moving forward.<\/p>\n<h3>Outlook<\/h3>\n<p>For the short term, New York may turn to youngster <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/torregl01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gleyber Torres<\/a> <\/strong>at shortstop. However, he has played a total of 123 MLB games with just 152 innings at short. If the Yankees are not confident in Torres at the position, they could pursue free agent <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/machama01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Manny Machado<\/a> <\/strong>this off-season. It is worth noting both Torres and Machado are right-handed hitters, and New York&#8217;s lineup may be better off finding a left-handed bat to fill the void.<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"QKOldv3wQrNBomeUQDwHtQ\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1051546040\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'QKOldv3wQrNBomeUQDwHtQ',sig:'xqc79QU_QZuk3kFQyw1oUfWvh5BV6N3oBjfEHKC3wfk=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1051546040',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Yankees released a bit of tough news Friday with the announcement that shortstop Didi Gregorius will undergo Tommy John surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1230,"featured_media":15264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1071,35],"tags":[68,189,69,41],"class_list":["post-15258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-yankees","category-mlb","category-news","tag-baseball","tag-didi-gregorius","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees"],"modified_by":"Brandon Murphy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1230"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}