Newly acquired Brewers infielder Luis Urias has undergone surgery to repair a fractured left hamate bone, Robert Murray reports. He’s expected to miss six to eight weeks, which seems to jeopardize his spring training and the beginning of the regular season.
Urias paused his winter ball season just a few days ago on account of soreness in his wrist, but the expectation then was that he was dealing with a relatively minor issue. That doesn’t appear to be the case, though, and now it’s possible the Brewers will have to begin the campaign without one of their key offseason additions.
The 22-year-old Urias isn’t far removed from ranking as one of the absolute best prospects in the game, but he didn’t produce much at the major league level with the Padres from 2018-19. San Diego then dealt Urias to Milwaukee in November in a four-player trade that also saw outfielder Trent Grisham and pitchers Zach Davies and Eric Lauer change hands.
Since his change of scenery, Urias has looked like the front-runner to start the year at shortstop for the Brewers. That could still happen, but it looks like a much more questionable bet now. As a result, the Brewers may have to turn back to Orlando Arcia as their No. 1 option at the outset of the season. Arcia was a promising prospect in his own right during his younger days, but the 25-year-old hasn’t done much of anything at the plate since he debuted in the majors in 2016.
6-8 weeks put him in the middle of March. Not ideal, but doesn’t seem like he’ll miss more than a week or two at the start of the season, if he misses any time at all.
8 weeks puts him toward the end of March, and then he’ll need to have his own Spring Training to ramp things up, which will take more than just 2 weeks.
Bear in mind he sustained the injury during winter ball. Obviously not the same as competing against MLB talent in spring training, but it’s not nothing. And spring training is more so for pitchers to ramp up and work up to the regular season pitch counts/workloads. I think he can do fine in 2 weeks.
He’s a young player with almost no experience at the MLB level. The Brewers would be very foolish to have him skip a real Spring Training.
Matt Olson has way more raw power than Urias. Hope for Brewers fans that Urias hits .300 or better cuz it’ll mostly be an empty batting average but it’s way better than OPS-ing .600ish if he ends up with a .260 average or so.
Matt Olson broke his hamate March 31st last year, was back on May 7th. No power loss.
Olson literally went from 29 in 162 to 36 in 127 (aka 46 in 162) AFTER the injury. lol
Of course the juiced ball helped some but he did really well
I thought it was just that all the teams agreed to know what pitch was coming last year?
Preller offloading more damaged goods, I see.
I mean, he was playing winter ball when he got injured. Don’t see how that’s Preller’s fault.
Don’t recall blaming the injury on the GM. Just sayin he has a history of selling lemons.
You literally said, “Preller offloading more damaged goods”. That implies that Urias was hurt when Preller traded him. The trade happened in late November. He sustained this injury last week.
Ann Marie, do the interns get glocks?
Yeah and getting them back (A. Espinoza, C. Capps)
Read the transcript Schiff.
@goatboy
Carter Capps was hurt when he traded for him. Preller knew that. Your mother who doesn’t follow baseball knew that. Capps was recovering from TOS. He was ready and willing to take on that lemon.
They share one.
it’s stearn’s
I make million dollars deals for breakfast I think I can handle this Eurotrash
10-4
Hans, Bubby, I’m your white knight.
Except all those deals lose money.
He was injured AFTER the trade playing in Mexico. Might wanna take off that aluminum hat you’ve got on.
It’s an aluminum foil hat, thank you very much.
…or MIL needs to invest in a more rigorous physical besides turning thy head and coughing.
Urías had already been traded when he was injured. Preller’s a bit ethically challenged to say the least, but this isn’t his doing.
I’m sorry I’m late, I had to attend the reading of a will. I had to stay till the very end, and I found out I received nothing… broke my arm.
Ooooh god the pressure!!
@dynaminte drop in monty
Yet another utterly clueless, moronic post from you! You aren’t learning though….still unbelievably stupid comments…hmmmm….
Did your parents have any children that lived?
When did strike 4 pass away and how come I didn’t get his hot Pocket warmer?
Was he supposed to leave you his hand in his will?
Somebody pushed a little too hard on the soft spot when you were a baby, didn’t they?
This type of injury seems to be potentially a long term nagging type.
The treatment is removal, so not at all.
Matt Olson had this injury last year in 2019, and then destroyed his career highs in every major statistical category even while missing 2 months, so, @VegasSDfan, you could not be more of a liar with this post.
Apologize.
I’m just having fun. If we didn’t get the wings, so what? We still got that meat-lovers’ pizza in the trunk.
As a man who makes pizza for a living, let that pie ride shotgun and put a seatbelt on it. Put your significant other in the backseat if necessary
You are using the season of the juiced ball as your success story. He did come back hitting, but it sure takes a lot of power (pun absolutely intended) out of your argument.
99% of hamate bone breaks in baseball are caused by a fastball to the hand. If it turns out to be recurring you should probably have a talk with the pitcher.
Brewers aren’t going anywhere this year, they can live with Arcia and Sogard at SS.
Brewers most certainly could go places this year, but missing Urias for a month doesn’t move the needle on 2020.
Meh, Urias is a long-term acquisition, this doesn’t change anything about him. Arcia will just play SS in the meantime while Hiura plays 2B.
cant imagine he would have even beat out Arcia for starting SS anyway.
Those who watched the Brewers last year would disagree. Arcia is on thin ice, at best. If the Brewers had faith in him they probably didn’t make this trade.
Sure they would. Regardless of whether or not Urias fills a need Stearns knows value when he sees it.
Damn, that’s brutal.
Arcia has another golden opportunity to get to a Simmons level with the bat and secure a future in the league. His glove can make any bench.
Watch how he parlays those winnings into the vast empire known as BiffCo
Your mom wants to know if you’re coming upstairs for supper?
I feel like i’ve noticed some players react very poorly
to the hamate injury — Elias Diaz ? Pollock ?
Cut’em , he stinks
Makes no difference with this team, might beat out the Pirates. It’s going to be ugly
Good thing they kept Arcia
His younger days… Arcia is 25. Is that old?
“Whew! Dodged a bullet!!!” – AJ Preller
OH NO! This means that the trade for him was dum, Fire Stearns! so so so good job Preller so good.
This is the big break he needed!
Recovery time is dependent on how the hamate bone is fractured,if just the hook part of the bone needs to be removed it’s not a big deal generally.
If the body of the bone is fractured that can be quite a bit more complicated,with a longer healing time needed.
Not a Doctor,but when Jose Ramirez suffered this last season I became informed on this type of injury.