San Francisco’s Lee Jung-hoo is going to have surgery on his left shoulder…Club “Season Out”
Lee Jung-hoo of the San Francisco Giants, who suffered a shoulder injury, ended up on the operating table and was no longer able to play this season.
“Lee Jung-hoo met Dr. Neal Elatrache in Los Angeles and was recommended for shoulder surgery,” the San Francisco Giants said today (18th). “He will have surgery on his left shoulder joint and net suture within a few weeks. He will not be on the ground in 2024.”
Lee Jung-hoo jumped to catch Jaymer Candelario’s ball in the top of the first inning of a home game against the Cincinnati Reds at Oracle Park in San Francisco, California, on the 13th, when he hit the fence hard.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination revealed structural damage to Lee Jung-hoo’s left shoulder, and Lee Jung-hoo moved to Los Angeles on the 17th to meet Dr. Elatrache.
Dr. Elatrache is a world-renowned surgery doctor in sports. To Korean baseball fans, he is famous as a doctor who performed shoulder and elbow surgery on Ryu Hyun-jin (currently Hanwha Eagles). Last year, MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani (Los Angeles Dodgers) received elbow surgery from Dr. Elatrache.
This is the second time Lee Jung-hoo has undergone shoulder surgery.
Lee Jung-hoo injured his left shoulder while sliding against the Doosan Bears in Jamsil on June 19, 2018, when he played for the Nexen Heroes (currently Kiwoom) in the KBO League in the Korean professional baseball league, and was diagnosed with a ruptured hip.
He returned to the ground after a month of pulling the rehabilitation schedule, but Lee Jung-hoo injured his left shoulder again while throwing himself to catch the ball in the bottom of the ninth inning of the second round of the semi-playoff against the Hanwha Eagles in Daejeon on Oct. 20 of that year.
Eventually, Lee Jung-hoo underwent an anterior and posterior joint of his left shoulder and net suture in November.
Lee Jung-hoo, who had a career batting average of 0.340 while playing in the KBO League until 2023, entered the big leagues with a six-year, $113 million contract with San Francisco ahead of this season.스포츠토토
Lee Jung-hoo posted a batting average of 0.262 (38 hits in 145 at-bats), two homers, eight RBIs, two steals, and an OPS of 0.641 in 37 major league games this year.
Lee will schedule his surgery soon and start his rehabilitation. Zaidi, the president of San Francisco’s baseball division, referred to Lee’s rehabilitation as six months. “The past month and a half that I played in the Major League Baseball is the most unforgettable time in my baseball life,” Lee told a local media.