San Francisco Giants outfielder Jung Hoo Lee will bear season-ending surgical procedure for a torn labrum in his left shoulder within the subsequent couple of weeks, the group introduced Friday.
Lee injured the shoulder when he crashed into the center-field wall after he leaped in an try to catch a fly ball in Sunday’s residence sport towards the Cincinnati Reds. He was initially recognized with a dislocation, and an MRI later revealed structural injury within the shoulder. Lee acquired a second opinion Thursday from Dr. Neal ElAttrache, who confirmed the shoulder would require surgical procedure.
Lee could have about six months of rehab and is anticipated to make a full restoration for the 2025 season, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi stated.
“To begin with I really feel unhealthy for him, however clearly for our group he loves enjoying baseball and he loves enjoying for the Giants and this was a major signal for us, so it is disappointing for everyone, largely for him,” supervisor Bob Melvin stated. “We’ll discover a strategy to do our factor with out him, however he was actually a key man for us and he is aware of that. Nothing you are able to do about it. You play a sure approach and generally these items are going to occur. Yeah, that is going to take just a little bit to sink in.”
Lee was one of many massive offseason additions for the Giants after starring for years enjoying professionally in his native South Korea, the place he had surgical procedure on the identical shoulder in 2018. He signed a $113 million, six-year contract with San Francisco and had been the group’s beginning heart fielder this season.
Zaidi stated the Giants acquired a few medical opinions and stated in some instances the surgical procedure may be postpone till the tip of the season and a participant can rehab by the damage contemplating the restoration is about six months.
“On this case given his age and the truth that he is injured the shoulder earlier than and simply the medical collective consensus medical opinions it made sense to get this taken care of straight away and provides him as a lot of a head begin making ready for 2025 as attainable,” Zaidi stated.
Lee, 25, excelled within the discipline and hit .262 with two homers, eight RBIs and .641 OPS in 37 video games. Luis Matos has moved over to heart discipline rather than Lee.
“It isn’t how I assumed [I’d] finish my rookie season this yr,” Lee stated by an interpreter. “However from all my baseball profession I’ve had, this may very well be one of the vital disappointing seasons I had. And for now, I am simply making an attempt to consider it extra optimistically. Making an attempt to consider not the previous, however the future.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.