San Francisco Giants right-hander 2023 All-Star Alex Cobb will go through surgical treatment to “address his labrum and ongoing impingement issues” in his left hip this week, the staff introduced Monday (per MLB.com). The Giants say the process comes with a six-month restoration, indicating Cobb will miss spring coaching and the start of the 2024 season.
Cobb handled a nagging hip factor all through the second one part this 12 months and the Giants in the end close him down after he used to be tagged for 5 runs in two innings on Sept. 19. He spent the final a number of weeks making an attempt to rehab the damage and he won more than one varieties of remedy. Ultimately, surgical treatment used to be beneficial, and Cobb will cross below the knife this week.
Despite the surgical treatment, the Giants are most probably to workout the $10 membership possibility in Cobb’s contract and stay him subsequent season. The possibility comes with a $2 million buyout, so it’s an $8 million choice, and $8 million for even a partial season of an All-Star caliber starter is a discount. That very true given the approaching loose agent marketplace, which is fairly skinny.
With Cobb sidelined the one lock for San Francisco’s 2024 rotation is ace Logan Webb. Veterans Anthony DeSclafani, Sean Manaea, and Ross Stripling are all signed thru subsequent season, despite the fact that all of them frolicked understanding of the bullpen and/or injured in 2023. Top prospect Kyle Harrison is a rotation candidate as neatly. The Giants appear most probably to upload no less than one starter this offseason.
Cobb, now 36, pitched to a three.86 ERA with a stellar 57.6% floor ball charge in 151 1/3 innings this season. That floor ball charge used to be the second one best possible a few of the 127 pitchers to throw no less than 100 innings, trailing simplest Webb’s 62.1%. Cobb had a 2.91 ERA in 89 2/3 innings within the first part, earlier than his hip started to give him hassle.
The Giants went 79-83 this season, together with 9-19 in September as they fell out of the postseason race. Manager Gabe Kapler used to be fired all through the common season’s ultimate week and changed by means of Bob Melvin previous this month.