9:52pm: The hope is that Melancon will be ready to be activated on May 16th, the earliest he’d be available given his backdated DL placement, as Alex Pavlovic of NBC Sports Bay Area was among those to tweet. Manager Bruce Bochy noted that the veteran hurler has been pitching through some discomfort for a few weeks, with the team evidently deciding now was time to try to get him past the issue.
6:21pm: The Giants have placed closer Mark Melancon on the 10-day DL, Andrew Baggarly of the Mercury News reports on Twitter. The team is calling his injury a “mild right pronator strain.”
At the moment, it’s not clear how long Melancon is expected to miss. It’s promising, at least, that the team has specified the strain is “mild.” But any forearm issue comes with potential implications for elbow health, so the club will need to exercise care in getting Melancon back to the hill.
The news is yet another blow to a San Francisco team that has drastically underperformed expectations after promising Melancon $62MM over four years to solve the club’s ninth-inning woes of last year. The veteran reliever has held up his end of the bargain — he carries a 2.53 ERA through 10 2/3 innings, with a typically excellent K/BB ratio (10:1) — but not much else has gone right for the Giants thus far.
It seems likely Derek Law will get the first crack at the closer’s job while Melancon is down, Alex Pavlovic of CSN Bay Area writes. Hunter Strickland would also seem to have a shot at factoring in the mix.
alesebas
65 m. To help the bullpen.
davidcoonce74
This was an odd year, so not sure what the Giants were thinking.
TheMichigan
Isn’t it an odd year? We should be expecting this.
ttinsley1434
Last year was an even year………..
Robertowannabe
Not sure but is next year an even year??
ExileInLA 2
That depends. There’s enough odd in the world right now to fill another whole year…
24TheKid
Your grammar is definitely odd.
lesterdnightfly
Even so, it’s been an odd year….
JKB 2
Jesus enough with the even year odd year thing with the Giants. Last year was an even year. They lost. Give it a rest
Cam
It’s fine, he’d be collecting dust in the bullpen anyway – can’t save games you’re getting pummeled in.
User 4245925809
Earl Weaver used to accuse Jim Palmer of inventing new body parts to get injured at. Here is one never heard of that Weaver would scream at.
JoeyPankake
He will certainly be off the DL before the Giants have a lead in the 9th inning which would call for a closer anyway.
jide
Nice
outinleftfield
Somehow the Giants have offended the baseball gods this season. Poor play and an incredible number of injuries from their star players.
sfgiants49ers
The season has been tough to watch so far. Reminds me off the days when Jeff Fassero was our swingman back in 2005.
Go Giants!
Nathan Wagner
Don’t forget about the glory years of ’07 and ’08 when we were trotting out Vinnie Chulk and Brad Hennessy in the 7th innings of ball games. Also, my personal favorite from that time was Alex Hinshaw…. RIP Noah Lowrey
dstuart
Not like we need him anyway, we couldn’t win a game if the other team died in the 4th inning.
nentwigs
Way to go, Bobby and Brian. Wouldn’t you like to have some of those traded players, DFA’d players ( due to poor roster management) and jettisoned free agents back? Perhaps you could field a lineup that had the opposing team trembling in fear instead of rollicking with laughter.
nentwigs
Are those REALLY SF Giant’s boxscores or are the 49’ers playing already?
davidcoonce74
To be fair, the Giants have a massive payroll – something like 200 million – and I doubt they have much ability to add good players. But their outfield has combined for something like 5 home runs this season. But their #5 starter is making 28 million dollars.
gilgunderson
Will the last healthy Giants player please turn out the lights?