{"id":31570,"date":"2022-06-01T04:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/washington-nationals-rhp-joe-ross-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T04:34:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:34:32","slug":"washington-nationals-rhp-joe-ross-to-have-tommy-john-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/washington-nationals-rhp-joe-ross-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Nationals RHP Joe Ross to have Tommy John surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Nationals right-hander Joe Ross will have season-ending Tommy John surgery, clouding his future with Washington in his final year under contract.<\/p>\n<p>Washington manager Dave Martinez said Tuesday that Ross had opted for the surgery.  The 29-year-old starter has been out since spring training with right elbow issues, and he exited a minor league rehab start last week with renewed soreness.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He got different opinions, and they all came back to say that he needed surgery,&#8221; Martinez said before a game against the New York Mets.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<ul>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ross was a member of the Nationals&#8217; 2019 championship team and appeared in two games during the World Series against Houston.  Acquired as a minor leaguer in 2014 along with shortstop Trea Turner from San Diego, Ross is set to become a free agent for the first time this offseason.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez had rosier news on injured starter Stephen Strasburg, who will make his first minor league rehab start with Triple-A Rochester on Friday.  Strasburg has been out since last June following surgery for thoracic outlet syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old right-hander could return to the majors in the next couple of weeks, depending on how he feels at Triple-A.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can see the light at the end of the tunnel,&#8221; Martinez said.<\/p>\n<p>Star slugger Nelson Cruz was out of the Nationals&#8217; lineup with a left ankle contusion, but Martinez said he was available to pinch hit.<\/p>\n<p>Washington also called up right-hander Jordan Weems and left-hander Francisco Perez from Triple-A, optioned righty Andres Machado to Rochester and designated right-hander Austin Voth for assignment.<\/p>\n<p>Minor league left-hander Evan Lee was in the Nationals&#8217; clubhouse and could make a spot start Wednesday against the Mets.  It would be the 24-year-old&#8217;s big league debut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8211; Nationals right-hander Joe Ross will have season-ending Tommy John surgery, clouding his future with Washington in his final year under contract. Washington manager Dave Martinez said Tuesday that Ross had opted for the surgery. The 29-year-old starter has been out since spring training with right elbow issues, and he exited a minor &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/washington-nationals-rhp-joe-ross-to-have-tommy-john-surgery\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Washington Nationals RHP Joe Ross to have Tommy John surgery<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[13061,236,146,5610],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2017\/0523\/r212203_1296x729_16-9.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2017\/0523\/r212203_1296x729_16-9.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}