The A’s have placed young southpaw Jesus Luzardo on the injured list with a fractured throwing hand, the team announced. Adam Kolarek has been recalled from the alternate site to take his roster spot.
Luzardo knocked his hand against a desk while playing a video game before his start yesterday, and the X-ray revealed a hairline fracture in his pinkie finger, per Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle (via Twitter). The injury occurred before his start yesterday. Luzardo lasted just three innings, giving up six runs (three earned) on five hits and two walks while striking out just one. He took the loss to Matt Harvey and the Orioles.
From a big-picture perspective, Oakland continues to suffer from poor health luck with their young arms as Luzardo joins A.J. Puk on the injured list. With Trevor Rosenthal and J.B. Wendelken also on the injured list, the A’s must make do without four arms they had hoped to play significant roles this season. Without Luzardo out, Bob Melvin’s crew will presumably power forward in the rotation with the five-some of Chris Bassitt, Mike Fiers, Sean Manaea, Frankie Montas, and Cole Irvin.
Kolarek looked to be a potential difference-maker after arriving via trade from the Dodgers this winter, but he struggled in his first eight appearances this season. The lefty-specialist currently owns a 8.44 ERA/8.53 FIP through 5 1/3 innings.
Gotta be more to this. A loss of temper after a poor outing yesterday?
No the article said exactly when it happened. He went to the training staff before the game. Don’t speculate and make rumors.
Heard he squeezed a stress ball and it popped.
Rumors? Nobody fractures their hand by knocking it into a desk! Clearly a way to save face for the organization and player.
With a name like that, you should just pipe down about rumors, considering all the rumors surrounding the championship you guys stole. Straight up team full of cheating scumbags. God it would suck to be an Astros fan. It’s like, everything was fine, you’re cheering for your mediocre team forever, and then bam, you realize that team you’ve loved your whole life, is full of unlikable players who cheat, like Bregman and Altuve. One championship and it was a fraud.
Haha. Stealing signs. They’ve been doing that since the 1880’s. Cry me a river doug. That flag will fly forever baby
You cheated not only the game, but yourself. You didn’t grow. You didn’t improve. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It’s sad that you don’t know the difference.
You are a joke. Astros’ legitimate World Series champs in 2017 and probably in 2021. What will you cry about when we win again? Very proud to be an Astros fan, and always will be.
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A shortcut taken by the majority of every major league baseball player since the game started. With evolution comes new ways of trying to get a competitive edge over your opponent in life and in sports.
Yeah don’t make Rumors on a mlb rumors web site!
It’s like nobody read the article
More like a loss of temper playing a video game and punching a desk.
Agreed. I’ve done it. And it’s kinda pathetic.
Got pwnd by some 12 year old in CoD. Understandable.
Yep. Probably had dead silence and he just lost it.
LOL. “Knocked his hand” — love it. I wish there was video of this. Coulda been David Ortiz killin’ a telephone box-level entertainment, but alas, all we get is “knocked his hand against a desk playing a video game.” #greatestgeneration
Really need to stretch before games….. lol
Silver lining: at least it explains his poor performance against one of the worst offenses in the game.
Wonder if Samardjiza would go to the bullpen? A’s need Shane Greene too.
Video games are too dangerous to pitchers health, need designated players for these guys.
As if there aren’t already an over abundance of injuries occurring on the field AND during rehab, we have this. Kudos to MLBTR for keeping up with the dizzying number of injuries happening literally every hour on the hour in MLB.
Luzardo is very young, talented, making slightly over half a million dollars a year, what else is there? Maybe the A’s should baby sit their pricy lefty…
Absolute joke
Another year of Luzardo and Montas pitching poorly. Any day now, one of them is sure to be a Cy Young contender, or something.
Cole is pitching lights out. Time to let Luzardo make some adjustments with a few rehab assignments before they bring him back up.