{"id":20839,"date":"2019-06-11T18:13:42","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=20839"},"modified":"2019-06-11T18:13:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T22:13:42","slug":"alex-cobb-set-for-season-ending-hip-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/06\/11\/alex-cobb-set-for-season-ending-hip-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cobb Set For Season-Ending Hip Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/mlb-teams\/baltimore-orioles\/\" target=\"_self\">Baltimore Orioles<\/a>\u2019 rough season just got a little bit worse. According to general manager <strong>Mike Elias<\/strong>, right-handed starting pitcher <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/cobbal01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alex Cobb<\/a><\/strong> will miss the rest of 2019 while undergoing hip surgery. In addition to the hip surgery, MASNsports.com\u2019s <strong>Roch Kubatko<\/strong> notes that Cobb might also undergo minor surgery on his knee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Alex Cobb having season ending hip surgery <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/orioles?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#orioles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roch Kubatko (@masnRoch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/masnRoch\/status\/1138550655482826752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 11, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Alex Cobb to Miss Remainder of Season With Hip Injury<\/h2>\n<p>Just like the entire Orioles organization, Alex Cobb has struggled over the past two seasons. Initially added on a four-year, $57 million contract prior to the 2018 season, Cobb has struggled to capture the form which made him a solid mid-rotation arm for the Tampa Bay Rays. The righty has appeared in just three games this season, tossing 12.1 innings to the tune of a 10.95 ERA and an 11.82 FIP. He\u2019s striking out less than six batters per nine innings while allowing an atrocious 6.57 HR\/9 rate. The lone silver lining is that Cobb\u2019s walking just 1.46 batters per nine.<\/p>\n<p>Cobb first joined the Orioles in the weeks leading up to the 2018 season. Pitching in 152.1 innings, Cobb finished the year with an underwhelming 4.90 ERA and a 4.80 FIP. While he ended his season on a high note, it\u2019s hard to call Cobb\u2019s Baltimore tenure anything other than a disappointment.<\/p>\n<p>Cobb is still under contract for two more seasons, so perhaps a clean bill of health will help him return to form. Prior to joining the Orioles, Cobb was actually a decently productive starter for the Tampa Bay Rays. From 2011 to 2017, Cobb pitched a combined 700 innings in Tampa Bay. During his time on the mound, Cobb posted a 3.50 ERA with a 3.68 FIP. He struck out 7.3 batters per nine innings while walking just 7% of his batters faced. This included a 2017 season in which he recorded a 3.66 ERA and a 4.16 FIP in 179.1 innings of work.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"eQS6zg77Qqd1fQCOKLEKew\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1145066548\" 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:'eQS6zg77Qqd1fQCOKLEKew',sig:'g2DEGnYvmNBSLHwuOyparaGrvbV6NIe1cYh17jVRPXo=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1145066548',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>Baltimore Orioles right-handed starting pitcher Alex Cobb will miss the remainder of the 2019 season to undergo hip surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":20841,"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":[3,1071,35],"tags":[1121,258,68,2513,941,69],"class_list":["post-20839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","tag-alex-cobb","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baseball","tag-injured-list","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-mlb"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20839","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\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}