The Red Sox announced right-handed this afternoon Liam Hendriks Today, today, Chris Cotillo from Masslive was successfully performed and today underwent a successful right elbow transposition surgery. A timeline for Hendriks recovery has not been announced.
Hendriks, 36, was shut down earlier this month due to his tight forearm. The right-hander has recorded only 18 2/3 innings in the past three seasons due to a battle with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and Tommy John’s surgery. He returned to the mound in April this year, returning as the Red Sox but was eliminated due to initially being described as hip inflammation, although Hendriks later clarified that he was diagnosed with a hernia, which eventually proved to be a abdominal strain. Whatever his illness was throughout the summer, Hendriks was on his way back, and then the above-mentioned tightness in his forearm appeared.
This tightness led to today’s surgery, a common follow-up procedure after Tommy John’s surgery. As Cotillo pointed out, Hendriks’ Red Sox teammate Zach Kelly The same procedure was conducted in 2023. In early May of that year, he returned to a major league mound less than five months after the end of September. If Hendriks follows a similar recovery schedule, that would allow him to delay the 2026 spring training a little, and may not affect his availability for the opening day next year.
The one returning to the mound will be with the Red Sox or will be accompanied by the air in another organization. The club and Hendriks are worth 12mm in a shared choice for the 2026 season, but mutual choices are never actually trained, and it seems apart from certain that the Red Sox will reject their option end, instead paying Hendriks a 2mm acquisition while he returns to the free agent market. Once there, it was interesting how he was valued by the rest of the league. Righty lacked situations in recent years, lists of injury disasters and a 6.59 ERA when he was healthy enough to pitch for this year’s Red Sox, which could make him look like an arm that he wouldn’t be able to get a offer that out of the minor leagues.
However, Hendrix’s value cannot be so easily overlooked. After all, it was a pitcher who ranked best in his last truly healthy baseball game. From 2019 to 2022, Hendriks played three All-Star games, winning the Major League Baseball Awards of the Year twice for his outstanding work in his bullpen. Over those four years, Hendriks beat 38.8% of his opponents with a 2.13 FIP and scored 114 saves.
Even with Hendriks’ age and injury history, a player with a track record, the elite will be seriously interested in the Bullpen Club. after all, Kirby Yates He had a similar three-year injury plagued from 2020 to 2022, and then he turned around and released the 2.21 ERA with the 36-year-old and -37 seasons of Atlanta and Texas. David Robertson Between 2019 and 2021, he threw only 18 2/3 innings and then recovered in a 2022 revival with the Cubs, which extended his career to his fiftieth birthday. Kenley Jansen Tomorrow will celebrate his 38th birthday Aroldis Chapman Will do the same thing in February. Neither age nor age damage must be a death-loss of the Elite Relief career, and there will certainly be a team interested in rolling dice on Hendriks this winter to see if he can be the next injured shot to re-receive his All-Star formation late in his thirties.
