November 17th, 2018 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka Dodgers All-Star closer Kenley Jansen will undergo his planned cardiac ablation surgery on Monday, November 26, with a recovery time that can range anywhere from two to eight weeks.
“If we don’t find anything, so let’s say they go in and nothing happens, everything is good, I will be done in two weeks,” the 31-year-old Curacao native told reporters on Friday. “But if something is abnormal, then I’ll be down for eight weeks. … But I still can do all my [off-season work] to get ready for Opening Day.”
Although Jansen’s recovery time could be anywhere between two and eight weeks, he fully expects to be 100 percent ready to go when pitchers and catchers report for Spring Training in February 2019.
(Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)
The operation is designed to remove scar tissue in the heart that causes incorrect electrical signals thereby creating an abnormal or irregular heart beat. This will be the second such procedure for the 6′-5″ / 275-pound hard-throwing right-hander.
“There is no real time pressure because doing it in the next few weeks, it will be a limited amount of downtime,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said at the general managers meetings earlier this month. “He’ll be able to start working out again. It won’t interfere with his throwing program at all.”
Dodger fans may recall that Jansen experienced an irregular heartbeat during a series against the Colorado Rockies at mile-high Coors Field this past August, causing him to spend two weeks on the disabled list after receiving an electrical shock to get his heart back into rhythm. But upon his return to action on August 20, the extremely popular Dodgers closer just didn’t seem like the Kenley of old, and understandably so.
“I think when you come back from that, sometimes, just subconsciously, you can make changes and it becomes muscle memory and it can be very subtle and then get more pronounced,” Friedman said. “And I think his delivery got a little bit out of whack after [an earlier] hamstring thing is my theory. He worked hard to get it back in sync and I think there were periods when he synced up really well and there were periods where his delivery got a little bit out of whack.
“But I know it’s something he’ll really focus on this off-season, and I expect him to return to the best closer in baseball,” Friedman added.
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All the best to Kenley. GET WELL you have young kids.
Then come back and help us win next years World Series.
Oh and by the way, my advice, lose about 30-40 pounds.
Has Friedman ever acknowledged a management decision as the problem when something doesn’t work out? Consider these facts with Kenley:
They give him a light workload in ST. Kenley goes into the season unprepared. The hammie surely contributed but he still wouldn’t have been ready without that problem.
He sat out the last series at Coors (not managements fault), then doesn’t pitch until the third game in Cincy, giving him a total of six days off. I was expecting to see him in the first game back, just to give him some work.
His first game pitched in the WS was game three, after five days off. He should have got an inning in game 1 or 2. He didn’t pitch all that bad in that one, one hit it two innings, but the hit was a HR that turned the game into an unscheduled double header.
Like all the great closers Kenley thrives on a steady work load and pressure situations.