A few prominent National Leaguers departed their teams’ games with injuries on Sunday. Here’s the latest on that group:
- Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich exited the club’s loss to the Mets with lower back discomfort, Sarah Langs of MLB.com writes. Fortunately for the slumping Brew Crew, manager Craig Counsell suggested that Yelich will steer clear of the injured list. The reigning NL MVP is enjoying another transcendent season thus far, having slashed a video game-like .353/.460/.804 with a major league-leading 14 home runs over 124 plate appearances.
- On the other side of Sunday’s Milwaukee-New York matchup, the Mets lost second baseman Robinson Cano after he took an 88 mph Gio Gonzalez fastball off his left hand. An X-ray on Cano came back negative, but the Mets are “still a little concerned,” manager Mickey Callaway told Anthony DiComo of MLB.com and other reporters. Cano will undergo an MRI on Monday. In the meantime, the Mets will hope this doesn’t prove to be another serious injury for Cano, whose OPS has climbed from .551 to .754 over the past two weeks. Cano suffered a fractured right hand on a hit by pitch when he was with the Mariners last year.
- Padres rookie Fernando Tatis Jr. had to leave the team’s loss to the Nationals with a hamstring injury, but it seems the shortstop will avoid an IL stint. Tatis will miss “a few days” at most, sources tell the San Diego Union-Tribune’s Kevin Acee, who reports the 20-year-old could even play Monday. The Padres will know more then about the status of Tatis, who, just 27 games into his career, has already emerged as one of the up-and-coming franchise’s best players. The early NL Rookie of the Year candidate has slashed .300/.360/.550 with six homers and six steals in 111 PA.
From the looks of the replay, I think Tatis needs to start taking yoga classes to increase his flexibility. That looked painful.
If I were a religious person I’d have been praying for Tatis. I’m glad to hear it’s minor and he will be back soon.
You don’t have to be religious to pray.
I think you might.
You absolutely might.
Oh? I’m atheist, what would I pray to?
Beer
Flying spaghetti monster?
Vlad Sr.
Captain Beefheart
I prayed to baseball gods whenever I was struggling. Seemed to help more than the other sky fairies
More like baseball angels.
I wonder if his numbers would be “video game-like” if he didn’t play at that launch pad they play in
Lol u right. He’s been league average if not straight up bad on the road so far. Shut him down at Busch!
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Yelich away .288/.373
League Avg .246/.323
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Yeah I can just imagine how little people would think of him if he was playing for Colorado with those H/R splits. Miller Park is not really that much better than Coors to be honest.
Coors Field’s park factor was 26% better than Miller Park’s last season.
espn.com/mlb/stats/parkfactor/_/year/2018
You are just looking at the “runs” factor. There are many different park factors. I can point out that in the 2019 “home runs” park factor, Miller Park is 32% higher than Coors Field as of today.
That’s because of Yelich himself
coors field sucks I don’t watch any game there. It hurts teams that go there for 2 weeks after physically. I think MLB should force them to close Coors field and move them some where else..
If one player can affect park factors that much, which I doubt, all that proves is that the stat is not particularly effective or useful.
Take a look at historical park factors. If things fluctuated wildly year to year you may have a point. Coors Field is always in the top 2. Always. It’s a real thing.
With the roof and windows closed at Miller Park, the place plays like a pony league diamond. Fact.
Where do I sign up? Lol
I remember Sosa hitting a ball into the slide. It’s a indoor launching pad.
Cuz yeah he totally had splits like that last year too…
Haters got to hate.
my rtts player in mlb the show ’18 is hitting over .800 with 150 home runs with around 3 weeks to go in the aa season. he is still rated and out of 40 men. that’s video game like and still crazy.
If you’re going to call Yelich’s season “transcending”, what are you going to call what Cody Bellinger’s doing in a pitcher’s ballpark?
Luck. His BAbip is 89 points higher than league average and 80 points higher than his career avg. His BA is 157 points higher than his career average. His strike out rate was just 13% for the 1st 100 at bats of the season. That does not appear to be sustainable for after he struck out at a 27% clip last season. He will come back to earth.
Players can get better. Look at Trout; every year he comes to ST with a mission to improve some aspect of his game. The Dodgers are a really smart team that conveys data to their players really well. The BABIP is unsustainable, sure, but Bellinger may be transforming as a player.
Not so much luck as his leaps-and-bounds improvement around the zone, taking walks when issued, not chasing, and waiting for his pitch. Ditching the all-or-nothing swings in appropriate counts, and putting the ball “where they ain’t” during the shift (going oppo, or line drives above their heads). Will the league catch up with him? Of course, to an extent. Is this luck? No.
He may come back to earth but luck? What a silly comment.
If it were luck, he’d have 35 singles right now. At the old age of 23, I think he may actually be *gasp* getting better.
Koamalu you mean to tell me a 23 year old Cody Bellinger couldnt be breaking out? He was a finished product at 22? He’s clearly not going to bat .400 all season and hit 70 Homeruns. If you think he can’t blow past all his old numbers I’m very sorry. Guys develop and get better. You could normalize his BABIP down to around .300 (where he’s at for his career)and he’d still be batting .340 right now.
When you play three series against the same teams in the first month, numbers are misleading.
That is great news for the Padres. Tatis is an extraordinary talent.
Well we don’t know that yet actually.
Shut up dimitrios, your comment is blatant denial that the padres actually have a reason to be optimistic for the first time in 10 years
Try 20.
21 years, to be exact. That 1998 team was magical. Steroids or not. Chemistry can’t be learned.
Tatis is 21 and performing incredibly well at the major league level. I’m so glad the Padres just let him play rather than manipulating service time. He’s proving he was ready and the Padres are performing much better than expected, in large part with contributions from young players.
Tatis is an extraordinary talent but Bellinger is just lucky.
Brewers don’t look like a team that have any plans this year to compete for a division, or anything else. Great to bring Moose and Grandal in and yet the team is badly underachieving and look absolutely terrible at times. Aguilar is sure proving he was just a flash in the pan. He has been bad since July 15 of last year.
Last year was a magic season for the Brewers. Sadly their pitching talent and depth was badly over estimated by management. There’s still plenty of time to turn it around but there are some significant issues with the team. They can’t score runs unless it’s by an HR. They rely too heavily on Yelich to get it done
Aguilar was a good hitter in 2017, not just the first half last season.
Those PED bones tend to be brittle Mets homies.
Good one.
Digging your username my man.