The Giants announced they’ve placed outfielder Mike Yastrzemski and starter Logan Webb on the 10-day injured list. Yastrzemski, whose placement was retroactive to June 2, has a sprained right thumb. Webb has a right shoulder strain; his placement was retroactive to May 31. Corner infielder Jason Vosler and righty Nick Tropeano have been recalled from Triple-A Sacramento to replace the pair on the active roster.
Yastrzemski’s IL stint doesn’t figure to be a long one. Manager Gabe Kapler told reporters (including Andrew Baggarly of the Athletic) the 30-year-old is expected to miss seven to fourteen days, so it’s possible he’ll return when first eligible on June 12. Yastrzemski is hitting a productive .222/.332/.456 with six home runs over 184 plate appearances this year.
Webb, on the other hand, looks to be in for a more significant absence. Kapler says he’ll be shut down from throwing for a couple weeks (via Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle). This is the second time in as many months Webb is going on the IL with a shoulder strain. While he returned after the minimum ten days last time, the Giants will now take things a bit slower. The 24-year-old Webb has pitched well this season, tossing 49 innings of 3.86 ERA/3.36 SIERA ball.
The Giants haven’t yet decided who’ll start tomorrow night’s game against the Cubs in Webb’s place. Scott Kazmir is a possibility, though (Slusser link). The veteran lefty was placed on the restricted list Monday when he went to his Texas home to address a personal matter, but he’s expected back in the next few days.
Kapler also provided updates on a couple other injured Giants. Starter Aaron Sanchez, who has missed nearly a month with biceps tightness, threw live batting practice this afternoon (via Slusser). First baseman Brandon Belt, out since May 26 with a left oblique strain, has progressed to taking batting practice and could return to the lineup this weekend (Baggarly link).
As a giants fan, it’s tough to see the injuries. But it is exciting to see the young guys get their shot; and this team’s depth is well built to weather the extensive list of injuries.
Mike’s grandpa Carl had the Greatest September Ever in 1967.
Unbelievable what Carl did that month.
Yes, it is. Tony C was lost in late August and that was a really big blow. But YAZ was really great all year, constantly getting clutch hits. I don’t know if they could have beaten the Cards with Tony C but they sure battled their way to that seventh game.
Brock and Gibson, Yastrzemski and Lonborg. Classic.
The paradigm for “jump on my back, I’ll carry you”…..an incredible month.
Ah, memories of Jerry Adair, George Thomas, Dalton Jones. John Wyatt, Don Demeter…..how did those guys ever get into the World series, anyway????
George Scott, Rico Petrocelli, Reggie Smith were all really good players.
Mike Andrews, Joe Foy, Jose santiago…..and let’s give Dick Williams the credit he deserves. This wasn’t a team that was “coming”, and had arrived; it was a few good players, the Hawk pick-up, one amazing Yaz, and a bunch of guys found at the bus station And of course “Gentleman Jim”…..it would be as if the Pirates were to get to the Series this year.
Top Two outfield for sure. Dick Williams led team. Jose Santiago pitched a one-hitter in Game Two of WS if I remember right.
Lonborg in games 2 and 5 put up 18 innings with 4 hits and 1 run. But he had to pitch game 7 on 2 days rest and he wasn’t quite Sandy Koufax.
Bob- Kaat got hurt in game 162 vs Boston and left early or it would have been the Twins in the WS.
I don’t dispute that. But it just added to the karma.
The Giants Lol. Oldest roster in MLB….This is just the beginning.
One of the easiest schedules in MLB in April / May . Team put together a few wins and their Dumb, dumb fans think they have a team. They actually believe they can compete for the 2nd Wild Card spot. It’s all just laughable . This group is old and has a massive talent problem.
Things are gonna get real pretty quickly here……They aren’t built for 162 let alone the post season
Fraudres got swept by the Cubs and are losing the season series to the Giants
@baseball 1600 who cares about individual match ups….This isn’t the NBA.
MLB is about last man standing after 162 . Not claiming you’re a playoff team after 55 games. Lol
But if you’re into SD match ups, here’s a gentle reminder , as the season ends , The Giants last 20 games they’ll play SD 10 times. You’ll
Also play the Dodgers for 3 . LOL
You ain’t going to the playoffs. It won’t even be close
I feel like it alternates every year between the Giants and Mariners to see whos fans can be the most delusional and annoying in May, when…it’s May.
Ok, first of all there’s 2 wild card spots. Second, the Fraudres are in 2nd place, while the Giants are in first, and we’re in the third month of the season already
Still bent from 2010?
The Padres LOL, they’ve had an even easier schedule in April/May and have a worse record than the Giants. The Giants and Padres have the exact same number of wins. Using your words, that means it’s laughable for Padres fans to think they can compete for the 2nd Wild Card. Both are completely untrue in a weak National League.
Uh, excuse me? Last time I checked the Fraudres were in second……. while the GIANTS were in first, as of last night. Thank you, come again.
If they giants have gone 5-4 vs. the Padres this year and 3-4 vs. the Dodgers, why should they be worried about them backloading their schedule? Seems like you’re salty that the coaching and executive work in San Francisco is top notch this year and that they’re slowly building a sustainable team that has barely even scratched its surface yet.
“This group” is mostly all on expiring contracts for large sums of money –
Their ledger is clean enough to eat off moving forward –
Age has almost no relevance here other than leading false narratives
Z has this org humming down the track, hardest part of rebuild still to come tho but you can only be pleased Id Imagine if your a Giant fan today
San Franciscans enjoy sourdough.
Looks like San Diegons prefer sour grapes. Stop crying in your sippy cup kiddo. It’s getting tired.
TonyGwynnSD19:
Well, you’re flat out wrong. Not that age is any kind of yardstick in determining how good a team is. Talent always trumps age.
The oldest roster in MLB in 2021 is not the Giants, but the Nat’s. Oakland and Miami also being older. SFG is the 4th oldest roster, but the 5th oldest, by all of 0.1 years is the Dodgers. I think they might be a good team despite their old age.
What’s interesting is the youngest, and oldest guys on the Giants are 25 and 35. The youngest and oldest guys on the Padres are 24 and 37.
Breaking it down by hitters and pitchers, SFG does have the oldest roster by batter’s age. But, what’s interesting is the pitching age of the Giants is 29.5, and the pitching age of the Padres is 29.4.
Only a dumb, dumb fan would categorically state that one particular team is the oldest in baseball without actually checking stats to see if that were true.
espn.com/mlb/stats/rosters/_/sort/average_age/orde…
If history has taught us anything, it’s taught us that old teams always get worse …..Never better
Geez, Giants fans here sound like Fools Low baseball IQ guys
If history has taught us anything it’s that older teams tend to be the most successful in the postseason. Of the last 10 World Series winners, 9 of them fell in the top half of baseball’s oldest teams. The only younger team to win was the Dodgers last year.
This dude just dropped facts all over you and you respond with “Fools Low Baseball IQ guys.”
Great job.
The one who really sounds like a fool is the one that forgets that the 2019 WS champs had the oldest roster in MLB that year. The fool that thinks age is more important than talent. An age-old maxim is, the best teams are a combination of vets and younger players.
Besides, what were missing here is how wrong you’ve been with all the “LOL Giants” you’ve posted. Talk about looking like a fool, we’re talking enormous fool here; biggest fool posting on MLBTR.
And what’s really sad, is you can’t admit you were wrong, that this roster is not laughable. So you continue to double down making you look like a bigger fool than you already did.
Btw Padres and giants have almost an identical record over their past 162 games. Padres are at 86-76, Giants are at 84-78. So where exactly is the justification that the Padres are such a better team than the Giants other than you recognize more names on one of the rosters.
If the Giants are benefactors of a short sample size, then how exactly are the Padres any different?
Speaking to your point, I know it’s the NHL nut team building is team building: Pierre Lacroix used to say that you needed 1/3 of your guys to be in the first 5 years of their career and even better if 1-2 of those guys were rookies, they bring good energy and remind older guys how they need to play with urgency. The next 1/3 of your team needs to be guys in their prime. Pro years 5-10. And the last third need to be guys in their last 5 years of a career, and better if you’ve got a declared end of season retiree. That’s a guy ya rally around in the locker room. Your rookie you can rally around on the ice if he takes a shot. And within that dynamic championships are won.
Make it stop
Bring up heliot ramos and put him in the 2 hole. He’s best hitter in organization not named posey
Like Bart, I think they want to make sure they are solid and will stick once they come up, Ramos has been tearing everything up but he as only hit above AA for a couple of months. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him but I think they want him to get more reps at AAA before he breaks the roster
While I agree in general, the Giants don’t want Ramos going back and forth between SF and Sac, and prospects can be ruined if they get rushed. But I don’t think he and Bart are comparable.
Catchers always take more development time given all they have to take on playing the position. For a guy who plays OF like Ramos, it’s all about hitting. For a guy like Bart, hitting is the least part of the equation. We might see Ramos this season, but if we see Bart, I think it will only be in a Sept. call-up..
All Giants fans are casuals, I’m thoroughly convinced after how they have been reacting in May. You win nothing from being good in May, cmon now, grow up, you are better than this. I’m an A’s fan and we’re in first too, but we aren’t talking title at all, because it’s May.
The audacity of being overconfident after you’ve been a nonfactor for 6 straight years. Yeah, Posey is suddenly an elite 1.000 OPS hitter and he totally will be all season long! Yeah, right…
Not sure who you’re talking about, bro. Don’t think I’ve seen anyone anywhere talking about the Giants as favorites for a WS title, even after their incredible start. But it’s undeniable that they’ve outperformed expectations, which is all we are excited about.
Yeah, I smell jealousy that Farhans rebuild is going quicker than Prellers did.. I’m just stoked were even fun to watch this year. No one is claiming a ticket to the WS.
Why should anybody be even watching the games? I say nobody is allowed to watch baseball or form any opinions on the MLB season until after October 1st. That way we will minimize the amount of hope for every teams fanbase and people won’t make baseless playoff claims!
Just as an FYI as of today Oakland has a run differential of +1 and the giants have +67 which is an indicator of it not being a fluke on the giants side and an indicator that the A’s will have a tougher road.
“Productive .222 batting average”
Man, imagine saying that twenty years ago.
One of the obvious reasons for the many injuries is aged players. The Giants need to get young quick and one way is to bring up Ramos as quick as they can. Belt,Crawford, Posey and Cueto need to be traded or let go at the end of the year. Yes I said Crawford and Posey. Posey is a part time player and Crawford is a lifetime .250 hitter with declining defense. There are some younger blue chip players on the market in 2022 and the Giants have the money to spend. They can not pass up any opportunity to get better and younger because the Dodgers and Padres are going to be really good for a long long time.
Crawford can go. Posey will stay. Belt can go unless they can’t find a replacement at 1B. Cueto will 1000% be gone after the season.
tc55:
Funny. I had an exchange of posts with a Dodger fan just the other day who was saying the Dodgers are suffering from worse injuries than the Giants.
So which is it? Are the Giants having more injuries because they’re old? Or are they not having as many injuries as the younger more talented Dodgers shooting holes in your theory?
BTW, you’ll note that this article includes the injury of 24-year-old Logan Webb
Age does not help is the point.
No, The point, obviously missed by you, is age is probably the most overrated factor in determining how good, or even how injury-prone a team is. Talent is the biggest determinant in how good a team is, and guys of all ages get injured. Show me any stat that shows older guys get injured more than younger guys.
The oldest team in MLB in 2019 was the Nat’s. You will probably remember them as the WS champs.
Look I agree overall talent is the best barometer in measuring wins and looses but my point is as an example, would you rather have a below 30 healthy or even unhealthy Posey or a 34 year old part time Posey. Wine is the only thing I can think of that gets better with age.
What? That’s a completely spurious comparison. Nobody gets a choice of a young Posey versus and older Posey. Would you rather have the current Albert Pujols, or the younger one that played for the Cards? That’s just stupid. You could say that about every single player in the game. Posey is still better than any alternative the Giants have.
A more true example would be, would you rather have a young catcher with a sub-100 OPS+, or the older, 34-year-old Posey, with his 175 OPS+?
And as far as the pejorative, “part-time player” goes, with 30 starting catchers in MLB, Posey is tied for 19th for most games played at catcher, with Yasmani Grandal, Carson Kelly, and Dom Nunez. J.T. Realmuto, Yadier Molina, and Omar Narvaez have played only 1 more game than Posey. And only 6 payers have caught 5 or more games than Posey. Because of the physical rigors, and need for regular rest, only 3 catchers qualify for leader boards.
It absolutely is not an indicator of aged players, if you look up this is an article about yaz and Webb, yaz is on the older side with less mileage but Webb is 24. I don’t know how much younger you want to get than 24.
We are the 5th oldest team in baseball is my point.
5th oldest team and currently holding the best record in baseball. Yeah, there will be injuries, but major credit to Zaidi for filling up the roster with tons of guys who can be plugged in all over the place and be productive.
claude raymond
The greatest Padres in the history of baseball have one thing I common. ZERO rings. and yet we continue to respond to the posts. Dodgers. One tainted title since Reagon was the Prez. And yet we continue to respond to the posts. Please. PLEASE. Ignore the unfulfilled. First place with “old timers”. Sucks to be you.
Well said! I find it comical how dodger fans think they “won” the 2020 world series* and even more comical how sd thinks they have a shot-it takes more than just Tatis Jr to win sweetheart
Kazmir just needs to retire already, give a guy in our minors a shot
Looked fine in his last start. His comeback is a nice story. Why the hate?
In 5 innings he has 4 so & a 5.40 era, that “looked fine.” We don’t need comeback stories.
His first start back he threw 4 innings and allowed 1 earned run. His one relief outing he gave up a 2 run homerun. Sample size would be an understatement here. Not to mention how well he performed in AAA this year. Who exactly would you prefer be called up in his place? Not exactly like the Giants have MLB ready SP’s banging on the door.
I would love to see Sean Hjelle, Seth Corry, or Caleb Kilian get a shot-all young promising arms.
Hjelle has thrown 47 innings in AA the past 3 seasons. Corry is still in A ball. Caleb Kilian has thrown 9 innings above A ball. Not saying these aren’t good pitchers, but they’re clearly not ready yet. Hjelle is likely the closest, but the giants just bypassed him in favor of a Matt Frisbee callup, I’d also argue that in addition to Kazmir; Tropeano, Beede, Frisbee, and Long are all ahead of any of those guys on the depth chart.
Minor League pitching depth is pretty weak, which is why the Giants built almost a whole new staff out of free agents this year. However, it sure is nice to be in a position where you don’t HAVE to rush somebody up before they’re ready due to lack of options.