Thursday’s trade deadline marked one year since Grayson Rodriguez last pitched, one of many factors contributing to this lost 2025 season for the Orioles.

But after the recurrence of an impingement in his right elbow — which first surfaced in spring training — that prompted Rodriguez’s latest shutdown, general manager Mike Elias acknowledged season-ending surgery is a real possibility despite nothing being finalized. The good news is this isn’t Tommy John surgery or a UCL repair that would take him out of the equation for 2026, but the Orioles need to get one of their most talented pitchers healthy and back on the mound next season.

The organization is hoping surgery can make that possible after what’s been “a tough year” for Rodriguez.

“At the time, that was the opinion of all medical

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