The Twins are waiting to see how reliever Sam Dyson responds to some time off to deal with recurring biceps soreness. Chief baseball officer Derek Falvey discussed the matter with reporters including Phil Miller of the Star Tribune (Twitter link). It’s an effort to “get out ahead” of things, says Falvey. The Twins need their most significant trade deadline acquisition at top form with a major postseason clash beckoning. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been himself since coming over. Dyson owns a 7.15 ERA in a dozen appearances in Minnesota.
More injury updates from around the game …
- Giants right-hander Johnny Cueto, on the mend from 2018 Tommy John surgery, experienced a setback in his most recent rehab outing, tweets Kerry Crowley of the San Jose Mercury News. He’ll be reevaluated in the next few days but won’t be an option for the team as soon as originally hoped. Manager Bruce Bochy had previously put a tentative date of Sept. 8 on a return for Cueto, but that no longer appears to be a plausible timeline. Back tightness, rather than arm issues, has caused the revised timeline. While there’s still hope that Cueto will make it back to the big-league bump this season, the organization will surely avoid any unnecessary risks.
- A few Pirates outfielders won’t return to action this year, as Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports (Twitter links). Gregory Polanco will receive platelet-rich plasma injections in a bid to spur healing in his troublesome shoulder. That’ll be a key situation to monitor in the offseason for the Pittsburgh organization. Jason Martin now has his own shoulder malady to deal with: a separation suffered yesterday. He’s expected to miss the rest of the year. Infielder Kevin Kramer will come up to the active roster due in part to Martin’s absence. Though Bucs righty Mitch Keller was hit in the wrist with a batted ball yesterday, he was able to play catch today. his timeline isn’t clear, but that certainly seems like promising news.
- The Phillies got some promising news on righty reliever Seranthony Dominguez, who has at times seemed destined to miss the rest of the season. Despite a recent scare, he has shown enough progress in his elbow health to resume throwing, manager Gabe Kapler told reporters including Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philly (via tweet). It’s still not clear that Dominguez will have enough time to ramp up and return to active duty, though perhaps there’s still an outside shot.
- Padres southpaw Adrian Morejon will not make it back to the bigs in 2019, Dennis Lin of The Athletic tweets. That’s not to say that the widely hailed 20-year-old isn’t making progress. His injured shoulder is in good enough shape to allow Morejon to resume throwing. Though he struggled quite a bit in limited MLB action, Morejon has generally shown all the skills that made him a consensus top-100 leaguewide prospect. He’ll likely again factor into the San Diego plans next season, though he’ll do so without much of an innings base to work from. Morejon has not yet thrown more than 65 1/3 frames in a given campaign and fell shy of that mark this year.
Sam Dyson’s performance for The Twins has 3 parts. 1) His first two appearances were horrendous! 2) He went on the IL. 3) Since being reactivated on August 13 he has had an ERA of 2.53 and a WHIP of 0.80! (EXCELLENT STATS, obviously).
I think Dyson is a great reliever.. That being said I think he has a little trouble getting out of his own head and just needs some patience for him to settle in, he was terrible when the giants saved him from his downward spiral in Texas but we were patient as we had nothing to lose. Great guy with solid stuff just seems to get in his own way at times! Go Dyson!
Jose Bautista basically ruined Dyson’s career
Tatis,Your showing how intelligent you are, Lol
The irony
My what is showing how unintelligent I am?
Did Jose Bautista ruin his career by live tweeting something mean from his living room while watching on his TV one of Sam Dyson’s ugly appearances as an active Major League Baseball player in 2019?
I guarantee that the brown stuff under my fingernails is NOT 100% pure doo doo. On a less important note: I am so tired of Seranthony asking his teammates to refer to him as Sir Anthony. He is not a knight. You have to earn that title!
Do you know what humor is
Isn’t that how his name is
pronounced anyway?
I’m just wondering why you have “pure doo doo” under your fingernails. Do you need toilet paper? I am here to help.
Stop taking words out of my mouth. I said I do “NOT” have 100% pure doo doo under my finger nails. I’m glad you’re here to help though. That’s tight. God that’s so tight.
You don’t really have to earn it. All kinds of British people are knighted for total bs. Also, it’s cheesy, just like the whole royal family nonsense.
im prettu sure every MLB player that is from a Dutch country has been knighted. i know its been watered down over time, but that’s a whole other level of that sort.
I’m looking forward to watching Dyson implode during the playoffs.
rushing Seranthony back this year is consistent with how this organization has treated him since moving him to the pen. rushed him to the Majors and promptly overused him brutally. No reason he should be back early. as helpful as he could be over one of these randos in the pen now, he’s not Mo or Chapman. make sure he’s fully healthy for next year.
A desperate attempt by Kapler and Klentak to save their own jobs. Just pitiful distraction. This season is over and done with. If Kapler is manager next season, it will be the same next year.
while i would agree that Kapler is not the man for the job, i wouldn’t say he’s even the biggest culprit for this year’s struggles. Lack of pitching, injuries in the pen, hitters cant piece together their hits. While i dont think he is helping the matter, id say he’s actually pretty far down the list of issues this year, and there’s a good chance Klentak realizes his mistake and they are a little more healthy next year.
Hard to see how a team could mismanage an injury worse than Polanco’s.
They brought him back in May explaining that he wouldn’t be able to throw the ball very well for a few more months.
A) Kinda important for outfielders to be able to throw the ball.
B) That means that his shoulder was NOT healed. WHY did they bring him back before his shoulder was healed?
It seems to me that Polanco was pressing to come back and the Pirates thought that they could compete with him playing.
He is the reason that they signed Chisenhall who has some sort of mysterious injury and gets paid for another year for not playing.
This year has been an absolute mess.
Seems like incompetence from their doctors and physical staff to me.
No different than much of the management team who blames it on minor league managers.