{"id":2473211,"date":"2026-06-24T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2473211"},"modified":"2026-06-24T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T07:17:50","slug":"royals-lhp-cole-ragans-headed-for-elbow-surgery-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/royals-lhp-cole-ragans-headed-for-elbow-surgery-field-level-media-professional-sports-content-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals LHP Cole Ragans headed for elbow surgery &#8211; Field Level Media &#8211; Professional sports content solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said prior to Tuesday\u2019s game at Tampa Bay that Royals ace Cole Ragans is expected to undergo elbow surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Ragans, who served as the team\u2019s Opening Day starter each of the last three seasons, has not pitched in the big leagues since May 6 due to an impingement in his left elbow. He had one rehab outing for Triple-A Omaha on May 24, but he was moved to the 60-day injured list when his elbow did not respond well thereafter.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ragans, 28, will remain on the 60-day IL for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe anticipate it being a surgical procedure,\u201d Quatraro told reporters, per the Kansas City Star. \u201cWe don\u2019t know, as of right now, what it means. He\u2019s got to see another doctor as well, but we anticipate it being surgical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ragans posted a 1-4 record with a 4.84 ERA in eight starts for the Royals. He enjoyed three magnificent games \u2014 including a six-inning, one-hit showing on April 14 at Detroit \u2014 but endured two outings where he surrendered more runs than innings pitched.<\/p>\n<p>For his career, Ragans boasts a 22-24 record and a 3.76 ERA in 91 appearances (74 starts). He has averaged 10.86 strikeouts per nine innings: 506 whiffs in 419 1\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field Level Media<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__author--mobile\">\n<div class=\"article__author-profile\">\n<div class=\"author__avatar\">\n                                                                            <\/div><\/div><\/div><\/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 fieldlevelmedia.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City manager Matt Quatraro said prior to Tuesday\u2019s game at Tampa Bay that Royals ace Cole Ragans is expected to undergo elbow surgery. Ragans, who served as the team\u2019s Opening Day starter each of the last three seasons, has not pitched in the big leagues since May 6 due to an impingement in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2473212,"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-2473211","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\/06\/Royals-LHP-Cole-Ragans-headed-for-elbow-surgery-Field.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473211","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=2473211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473213,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473211\/revisions\/2473213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2473211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2473211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2473211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}