The Padres are likely to place phenom Fernando Tatis Jr. on the injured list because of back spasms, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune tweets. Tatis departed Tuesday’s game because of the issue and then sat out Wednesday.
This will be the second IL stint of the season for Tatis, a 20-year-old rookie shortstop who has been among the majors’ best players – first year or otherwise – in 2019. Although he missed a month earlier in the season with a hamstring strain, Tatis has still managed to slash an excellent .317/.379/.590 (149 wRC+) with 22 home runs, 16 steals and 3.7 fWAR across 372 plate appearances. Tatis may join Mets first baseman Pete Alonso as the leading NL Rookie of the Year vote-getters at season’s end, though having a pair of IL trips under his belt could help prevent the Padre from winning the award.
Regardless of whether he takes home any hardware this year, Tatis has the talent to end up in the running for plenty of accolades in the future. With that in mind, the Padres will surely be cautious with Tatis as he works his way back from this injury – especially considering they’re all but out of playoff contention. However, the club is hopeful he’ll be able to return after 10 days off, according to Acee.
Drats! Really want Tatis to stay healthy and win ROY.
I hope in his stead, the Padres call up Ty France to play 2b while Jose Urias slides over to SS. France has been playing some 2b in El Paso, and Urias started at SS today. Ty France is tearing up AAA, hitting over .400. He is already 25. I would love to undo the Hosmer deal and have France play 1b. This would have been great for 2020:
C: Mejia, Hedges
1b: France
2b: Urias
SS: Tatis
3b: Machado
OF: Myers, Margot, Renfroe
If Hosmer weren’t here, the Padres probably don’t trade Franmil Reyes, and go with a 5 man rotation in the OF and 1b with Reyes, Myers, Margot, Renfroe, and France, with France also filling in at 3b. But nooooooooooooo
France underwhelmed in the bigs to start the season. not exactly exciting ped
Reyes had to go no D and your line up doesn’t exactly send shivers up an opposing pitcher. With Hedges, France, Urias, Myers you have four guys who can’t hit their weight all; EZ outs. Unless they turn things around they’ll never make the playoffs.not in 2020 or 2021.
Is there one player in that lineup who is hitting close to .300, aaaa Nope. And .270 is not close to .300. I can’t count Mejia not enough AB’s.
Tatis is hitting .315, but he is clearly going to the IL again. Hosmer is hitting .287. And he is not in my lineup because all the rest of them with higher BA are still just plain better hitters. I think that Mejia, France, and Urias deserve longer looks in the majors. And Myers can turn it around.
Mejia sure started to hit
IF they were better hitters, they would be hitting better than Hosmer.
Hosmer, duhhh
Who’s Jose Urias?
Back spasms at 20? Yikes
Lower back strains are a young man’s troubles. I was plagued with a bad back, lower back, in my twenties. I guess you learn how to manage your back and be smart as you get older?
Haven’t had problems since, knock on wood. Best stretch is the Chinese rice eating position, almost like a catcher, except the big key is your heels are on the ground, and shoulders between the knees. Saved my basketball career.
Start doing yoga stretches buy a DVD and do them it really made a difference for me
Sex works too………
Ddp yoga
After he made a amazing leap catch and then fouled off a ball.
Tatis for young guy has missed a lot of time. He missed time last year sliding headfirst and this year stretching for throw and now this.
That’s because hTatis is giving it 110% if they all did they’d be close to first instead of last place. Green also needs to give him off a day here and there.
There’s no reason to bring him back early, were doomed for last again. I say rest him for three weeks and bring him back then. Why rush the kid.
He went on the DL the last time doing the splits.
One thing Green doesn’t do is give his players a day off. I’ve seen how Tatis gives it 110 percent every game how about giving the guy a day off here or there. Same thing with Machado. Our former Mgr Bochy had a great format for resting a player to give them an extra day here or there. I blame Green 100% for this injury. I kept saying rest Tatis never happened.
Noooo! He’s been a beast for me in fantasy this year! He’s one of my many young guns (Alonso, Acuña, Aquino) saving my season this year.
We will all say a prayer for your fantasy team.
Just a reminder to laugh at the fact that the White Sox gave him to the Padres for two and a half bad seasons of James Shields.
So
Didn’t the Blue Jays give up Thor for a mediocre 38 year old knuckle-baller?
That happened to win a Cy Young. Sandy Alderson sold high on him. Ironically with both trades, the selling team had the opportunity to bring back the former star pitcher years later. R.A. Dickey still wanted to continue his career last but he wanted to find an offer within either driving distance or a short flight distance of his home in Nashville. Direct flights from NYC would’ve helped, though I think he was looking more seriously at Cincy and Atlanta.
As for the Friars, James Shields still has his home in San Diego and he was making it clear he was open for a return. Pads weren’t biting though.
I do not know why Brian Reynolds does not get more attention as a ROY candidate.
He is among the leaders in many hitting categories and is a good outfielder who is capable of playing a decent centerfield.
He is not a great power hitter but he has his share of home runs.
Could it be that he is not playing in NY?
That’s a legit gripe. Hitting an NL leading .338, with the same WAR as Tatis and Alonso.
As of today he was leading the ML in batting average.
The last time a NL Rookie did that was,well,never.
There’s a large rookie crop this season. Top Rookies per position in order as of today IMO:
C ARI Carson Kelly
C TOR Danny Jansen
C LAD Will Smith
C SDP Francisco Mejia
1B NYM Pete Alonso
1B ARI Christian Walker
1B HOU Yordan Alvarez
1B SEA Daniel Volgelbach
1B TOR Rowdy Tellez
2B TBR Brandon Lowe
2B MIL Keston Hiura
2B TOR Cavan Biggio
2B BOS Michael Chavis
2B KCR Nicky Lopez
2B CIN Josh VanMeter
3B TOR Vlad Guerrero
SS SDP Fernando Tatis
SS PIT Kevin Newman
SS TOR Bo Bichette
LF PIT Bryan Reynolds
LF ATL Austin Riley
LF CHI Eloy Jimenez
LF LAD Matt Beaty
LF MIA Harold Ramirez
LF DET Christian Stewart
CF LAD Alex Verdugo
CF CLE Oscar Mercado
CF CIN Nick Senzel
CF WSN Victor Robles
CF BAL Stevie Wilkerson
RF SFG Mike Yastrzemski
RF CIN Aristide Aquino
RF SDP Josh Naylor
RF ARI Tim Locastro
SP ATL Mike Soroka
SP SDP Chris Paddack
SP BAL John Means
SP SDP Cal Quantrill
SP CLE Zach Plesak
SP DET Spencer Turnbull
SP STL Dakota Hudson
RP ARI Yoan Lopez
RP MIN Ryne Harper
RP LAA Ty Buttrey
RP TBR Nick Anderson
RP BOS Marcus Walden
RP KCR Jake Newberry
RP SEA Austin Adams
RP MIL Adrian Houser
Thank you Gary.Seems comprehensive and accurate to me.
To me this shows the ML attention to young cheap players versus expensive thirty something veterans.
Agree with everything except walker being above Yordan
The order changes monthly. Especially RPs. Yordan Alvarez and Aristide Aquino are climbing fast. PIT LF Bryan Reynolds and SS Kevin Newman are having great seasons but relatively unknown in the Baseball world.
Many rookies aren’t listed because there are so many rookies, I’m just listing the top of the list. Some get sent down like Myles Straw and Kelvin Gutierrez and some aren’t in the top ten like Griffin Canning and Trent Thornton.
You missed Luis Urias at 2b
Luis Urias is a rookie but not a top 5 2B due to his .170 BA.
Urias needs to at least hit his weight for average if he wants to stay in the Bigs, he has D plus needs at least a .240 BA or the EP boys will see him again
Looks at his August numbers, he’s adjusting well.
Agree re: Reynolds. But Tatis is a “happening”; I haven’t seen that kind of electricity since Lindor was a young-un. A face-of-the franchise, impact player…and a short stop (and a good one) to boot….
Bob-Tatis scored on an infield pop up earlier this year against the Pirates.
I was impressed,and I have seen a lot of players as I remember you when you were playing for the Red Sox.
The “Face of the Franchise” moniker could also be applied to “Polar Bear” Pete Alonso. He and McNeil have really breathed life into the Mets’ team this year. Pete’s going to have to return to his homerun barrage to edge out Tatis for NL ROY. He had the opportunity to complete the Mets’ comeback last night with a grand slam, but narrowly avoided hitting into a double play thanks to Camargo’s error. (I see why Braves’ fans are praying for Swanson’s return.) Pete’s going to need to seize those opportunities to be ROY.
Is this from his crazy jump catch or unrelated?
He’d be an All Star if he could ever stay healthy.
The kid is young in two yrs he’ll be an All Star if he learns to bring down his daily tempement to 100% instead of 150%
Guys made of glass.
It was inevitable that some overweight barstool superfan would spew the predictable, inane “made of glass” cliche.
He has had two injuries in the past fiscal year that required IL stints lasting more than a month each. We’ll see about this one.
There’s no need to rush him back, were a good last place team. Too many non hitters on the line up, that has to change in 2020 or that will be another last place 2020. You can’t have Urias, Hedges, Margot, Myers. SP that’s five easy outs only the Padres would keep these guys in the line up.
Urias and Margot sure haven’t been easy outs this month
One month does not make a career or a year in general. When Urias is hitting above .250 I’ll start listening, until then no buenos.
Why does he have injuries? because he is crazy on the base paths and loves the game, who else give 200% on the Friars?
Only one of those injuries was sustained on the basepaths. Two, maybe three significant in a year is bad.
He just gives too much every game and Green needs to rest him with days off here and there.
I say rest him and only play him every third day till the season is over were good for last place what’s the big deal, save this kid for next season when hopefully AJ can bring in two good SP’s No. 1 and No.2 in the rotation.. Unless AJ trades half the team for two SP’s then were in trouble again.