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Orioles’ Bautista undergoes procedure on elbow, timeline for 2025 return unaffected

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Orioles star closer Félix Bautista, who had Tommy John surgery in October, had a right elbow rebridement and an ulnar nerve  transposition on Friday with Dr. Keith Meister in Dallas.

The procedure was to remove scar tissue in his elbow and to move his nerve to free it up from compression by some scar tissue in the area.

The Orioles don’t believe the additional procedure will affect his rehabilitation timeline, and he is expected to return for the 2025 season.

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Bautista was 8-2 with a 1.48 earned-run average in 56 games with 33 saves and struck out 110 of the 237 batters faced before he injured the elbow on August 25th.

Even though he missed the final five weeks of the regular season, Bautista still  won the 2023 Mariano Rivera Award, given annually to the top relief pitcher in the American League.

Rich Dubroff

Rich Dubroff grew up in Brooklyn as a fan of New York teams, but after he moved to Baltimore, quickly adopted the Orioles and Colts. After nearly two decades as a freelancer assisting on Orioles coverage for several outlets, principally The Capital in Annapolis and The Carroll County Times, Dubroff began covering the team fulltime in 2011. He spent five years at Comcast SportsNet’s website and for the last two seasons, wrote for PressBoxonline.com, Dubroff lives in Baltimore with his wife of more than 30 years, Susan.

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