Kenta Maeda, a pitcher of the Twins, a major league baseball player who is on the list of injured due to his right forearm, will undergo surgery on his right elbow on September 1.
Pitcher Maeda was replaced in the middle of the 5th inning due to the tension of his right arm in the game against the Yankees on August 21, and became a losing pitcher with 5 goals.
After that, he was on the list of injured people for 10 days and was diagnosed by multiple doctors, but Twins coach Baldelli held a meeting before the game on the 27th, and pitcher Maeda was at a hospital in Dallas, Texas on September 1. It was revealed that he would undergo surgery on his right elbow.
Baldelli said that the details of the surgery and the cure were not yet known, and that Tommy John's surgery, in which the ligaments of the elbows were removed and other parts of the ligaments were transplanted, was "one of the options." bottom.
33-year-old pitcher Maeda was the first pitcher in the major leagues this season, but so far he has only scored 6 wins and 5 losses and an ERA of 4.66 ahead of 21 games.
Surgery on the right elbow will eliminate pitching during this season.
If you have Tommy John surgery, your return will generally be in the 2023 season, so there is a possibility of long-term withdrawal.