{"id":2406989,"date":"2026-05-08T01:54:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2406989"},"modified":"2026-05-08T01:54:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T01:54:51","slug":"royals-say-cole-ragans-dealing-with-pitchers-elbow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-say-cole-ragans-dealing-with-pitchers-elbow\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals say Cole Ragans dealing with pitcher&#8217;s elbow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"11a5df00-0945-35a5-66fe-a3a107975558\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/kc\/kansas-city-royals\">Kansas City Royals<\/a> left-hander <a target=\"_blank\" data-player-guid=\"5b245474-0b1d-854e-10eb-1f70b7902e6e\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41054\/cole-ragans\">Cole Ragans<\/a> has been diagnosed with valgus extension overload, otherwise known as pitcher&#8217;s elbow, after leaving his start against the <a target=\"_blank\" data-clubhouse-guid=\"6ad8fa03-36bc-baab-c76a-345b6544424d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/cle\/cleveland-guardians\">Cleveland Guardians<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Manager Matt Quatraro told reporters Thursday that the team doesn&#8217;t yet know how long Ragans will be sidelined.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48698409\/royals-starter-cole-ragans-removed-3-scoreless-innings-vs-cleveland\" class=\"img-link\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/48694135\/mlb-2026-power-rankings-week-6-dodgers-yankees-braves-cubs-rays\" class=\"img-link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0505\/mlb_power_rankings_week6_1296x1296.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;We have to evaluate that [Friday] once he comes in and sees how he feels,&#8221; Quatraro said, according to MLB.com.<\/p>\n<p>Ragans, 28, is 1-4 with a 4.84 ERA this season.<\/p>\n<p>He had Tommy John surgery in March 2018 while in the Texas minor league system, then tore the grafted ligament during his rehabilitation and had a second Tommy John surgery in May 2019. He returned to the major leagues in August 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He said Wednesday this discomfort was nothing like what he experienced previously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know what I&#8217;ve been through, the elbow stuff. I know it&#8217;s not what I&#8217;ve been through before,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ragans was traded to Kansas City in August 2023 and became a first-time All-Star in 2024, going 11-9 with a 3.14 ERA in 32 starts.<\/p>\n<p><i>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.espn.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Royals left-hander Cole Ragans has been diagnosed with valgus extension overload, otherwise known as pitcher&#8217;s elbow, after leaving his start against the Cleveland Guardians on Wednesday. Manager Matt Quatraro told reporters Thursday that the team doesn&#8217;t yet know how long Ragans will be sidelined. Editor&#8217;s Picks 1 Related &#8220;We have to evaluate that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2406990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2406989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Royals-say-Cole-Ragans-dealing-with-pitchers-elbow.jpgw130h130scalecroplocationcenter.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2406989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2406991,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2406989\/revisions\/2406991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2406990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2406989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2406989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2406989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}