The Royals placed Amir Garrett on the 15-day injured list yesterday, with a retroactive May 29 placement date. The left-hander is suffering from a valgus extension overload in his throwing elbow, which manager Matt Quatraro told reporters (including MLB.com) is like a bone bruise. Garrett will miss roughly 3-4 weeks in total, and will be shut down for the next 5-7 days before being re-examined.
Since Kansas City already seems out of the pennant race, that means Garrett should be able to return well before the trade deadline, and perhaps establish himself as a trade chip for a Royals team that is already open to moving relievers. Garrett is a free agent this winter, making him even more of an obvious trade candidate as a rental player. Beyond his current health issue, however, the biggest obstacle in the way of a Garrett deal is his garish 17.7% walk rate, the highest yet for a pitcher who has struggled with control over most of his seven MLB seasons. While Garrett has only a 3.00 ERA over 21 innings and his strikeout (25%) and grounder (48.1%) rates are both respectable, the walk rate certainly stands out as a red flag for any interesting suitors.
More on other injury situations around baseball…
- Jose Altuve didn’t play today and likely won’t play on Sunday, as Astros manager Dusty Baker told reporters (including Danielle Lerner of the Houston Chronicle) that Altuve is dealing with a minor oblique problems. The second baseman felt discomfort after a swing in Friday’s game, and while the injury isn’t deemed serious enough to merit an MRI, the Astros are naturally being careful with Altuve given how oblique problems can linger or become easily aggravated. It’s a day-to-day situation for now, though Houston doesn’t have an off-day on the schedule until June 12.
- The Guardians removed Amed Rosario from today’s game in the fourth inning due to left knee soreness. Rosario is day-to-day for now, and since Cleveland has an off-day on Monday, it seems very likely that Rosario will be sat for Sunday’s game to give him two full days to rest and recover. Rosario has struggled badly this season, hitting only .224/.270/.314 over 226 plate appearances, and he has the fourth-lowest fWAR (-0.7) of any qualified player in 2023. Any of Gabriel Arias, Tyler Freeman, or Brayan Rocchio could get more playing time at shortstop if Rosario has to miss an extended amount of time.
- Joely Rodriguez was warming up in preparation of entering tonight’s Rays/Red Sox game, but Sox manager Alex Cora told reporters (including Julian McWilliams of the Boston Globe) that Rodriguez had to halt his warmup due to soreness in his bicep and shoulder area. More will be known once some tests are run, but it certainly looks like Rodriguez could be headed back to the IL. An oblique injury in Spring Training already delayed Rodriguez’s season debut until May 17, and the left-hander has struggled to an 18.00 ERA over his four innings and five appearances.
- The Marlins told reporters (including Daniel Alvarez-Montes of El Extra Base) that Avisail Garcia’s rehab assignment has been temporarily halted, as he will receive examination on his sore back. Garcia has already been on the IL since April 29 due to lower back tightness, so while the team described the setback as “minor,” it is a little worrisome to see Garcia further delayed. The outfielder has played in four games with Triple-A Jacksonville during his rehab assignment.
Make sure you read “valgus extension overload” very carefully because the first time I glanced I read something VERY different.
Sounds like what my girlfriend had after a piercing mishap
One more valgus extension and she can wear a shower curtain?
A beef one, yeah
Maybe the fish don’t have room for Avisail?
An IL stint maybe just what the Sox need as losing Rodriguez would be addition by subtraction
If the red sox are going anywhere they’d need a healthy Rodriguez down the road. High ERA, but, short sample hurt.
He needs time, healthy, to get up to speed.
Rodriguez flat-out stinks. They can do better than him. But naturally Cora backs one of his boys.
You do know that’s a managers job?
Apparently someone forgot to tell Oliver Marmol that…
Rsox- Agreed! Joely Rodriguez has been bad! Bernardino has been decent out of the bullpen, so maybe they can continue his MLB trial.
Chris Murphy, from Worcester, may get a relief trial before Rodriguez at this rate. Murphy has been bad in the Worcester rotation, but much better out of the bullpen. So far his stuff has played up, and the Red Sox have very few other left handed bullpen options.
Quite often the maladies we are carrying within our emotional and mental self manifest themselves via physical issues. Jose Altuve appears to be displaying this on a regular basis.
Rosario chose the wrong season to have the worst year of his career. He won’t have much value at the trade deadline, especially now, but the SS FA class for this winter is so thin, he’s still the cream of the crop. Woe to the team who will have that need this off season.
Not really though. I think I would rather buy low on bounceback candidate like Rosario instead of committing $200-400 million on an under-performer like Bogaerts or a flat out disappointment like Correa..
Hflew – Bogaerts is an under performer? The guy hit .308 in April and had a down May. He isn’t under performing until the season ends. RIght now he’s in a cold streak which followed a hot streak. What’s next? Yep a hot streak.
There is no way to know on June 4th if Bogey’s going to have a good or bad year. It’s too early. He’s been both hot and cold and he’s done well at home and struggled a bit at NL ball parks he didn’t play at much. It’s going to get better. He’s an all-star quality player.
If Bloom had a brain, which he doesn’t, he would try to deal for Rosario. Heck offer him Kiki (hahaha) or a league average player for him. Rosario is off to a bad start but he’s got more talent than most players on the Red Sox.
Devers clearly hits better than him normally but the rest of the team (especially since Yoshida is still being benchmarked) doesn’t have the skill level of Rosario. Maybe someday Casas will. I’d rather have Rosario than Ventura, Duvall, Refsnyder, Arroyo, Kiki, Wong, or McGuire or any of the other scrubs Bloom has brought to the team. If Mondesi was healthy, I’d rather have Rosario. That’s how good he is. So buy low for ONCE Bloom and get Rosario for 2024 and the last half of 2023.
KD – Xander has been playing with a wrist injury for the past month. He would have gone on the IL, but he continued to play because Machado is already out.
And how about Eovaldi today!!
6 more shutout innings
Only ONE hit allowed
No walks yet again
7 Strikeouts
2.24 ERA
0.93 WHIP
Bloom is looking like a damn fool for letting Nate walk.
FPG – Didn’t know that about Bogey that explains the downturn in May. Heck of team mate to take the hit because another star is out.
Nate is incredible. He’s in CY Young contention at this point. Releasing a future Cy Young so you can get Kluber is a BIG BONEHEAD MOVE by Bloom.
I think Texas assembled a heck of a front office, manager and is building a dynasty to compete with Houston if not surpass them. I think when deGrom comes back healthy this team is going to be hard to beat. Their line-up is comparable to Houston, and I think Houston is better than LAD, NYY, TOR and TB.
Bloom has been an embarrassment since he missed the non- tendering of JBJ in his 2nd month on the job. After that, it’s all been downhill with last off season being the culmination of 3 very bad years of decision making.
I will be curious to see how Yoshida does when teams find the weaknesses in his swing. Will he be able to adjust or just become another Japanese hitter that hits 70 points lower in the MLB? Time will tell. If Yoshida pans out to be above league average then during Bloom’s tenure he’s acquired Yoshida at a high price, Devers at a ridiculous price, gave up on Mookie, Price, Benny, Bogey, JD and Bogey while being smart enough to get Renfroe for a year to throw him away a year later and the same with Schwarber. That is a lot of bad decisions!!!
I told you before the TB series it could go 4-0 or 0-4 and I wouldn’t have been surprised. I suggest 2-2 to minimize my chances of being wrong. 2-2 now seems feasible but always expect the unexpected from this Red Sox team.
What does Boston have ahead of them in the schedule? It’s ugly.
SIX with the Yankees
3 with Cleveland
3 with Colorado as a breather
4 with Minnesota
3 with the improving CWS
3 with Miami another breather
3 in TOR with a vengence seeking ball club
Then 3 with the second best team in Baseball = Texas Rangers to start July. deGrom could be back for that series!!
June could be the opposite of last June. The old 11-7-1 series record will probably take a hit in June. Their projected record for the month is 13-16 so if they achieve it they could remain a .500 team half way through the season. It will be interesting to see what the pitching staff does without Sale. Everyone moves up a spot so our #2 goes against the opponents #1. etc. That’s what always killed Eovaldi because he started as a #3 who ended up facing all the other #1s. Now, he’s throwing so well, he can beat good #1s on good teams.
Bloom was a fool to let him go but having a good pitching program can make such a difference. The Astros have a great program and now Texas does. Boston doesn’t and hasn’t had one for years. Maybe Bloom should dumpster dive for some coaching staff that knows what it’s doing?
Dear Avisail Garcia,
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jesus Sanchez, Bryan de la Cruz and the entire Marlins fan base
Hey man…like I said a while back, wouldn’t mind seeing Avisail take his time, take a couple of extra years to get together and get out on that rehab assignment.
Meh. That ship has sailed.
That’s avisailed.
@formerlyz
I remember when you said it. lol
If you have magical powers, thank you thank you thank you!
Did you go to one of those botanica shops in Little Havana, Hialeah or Little Haiti? If you did, it seemed to have worked. Sanchez is hitting; de la Cruz is hitting…and Garcia looks like he won’t be back for awhile.
Can you do the same with Garrett Cooper? That shouldn’t be too hard. Maybe just one small fiber of toilet paper on a Cooper magical bobblehead, and Cooper probably misses the rest of the season, then Gurriel can play the rest of the season or Ng can be forced to get someone at the trade deadline instead of waiting for Cooper to be healthy…for the…how many years is it now…season in a row.
Lol I just realized I must have missed the reply button…
Bryan De La Cruz is one Kim Ng passion project that is really beginning to pay dividends. He’s quickly become one of my favorite batters for the Fish. He, Arraez, and Forte have been excellent since May (Jacob Stallings should be traded — everything about his so-called framing talents were so overstated and he’s a waste of a roster spot).
I still disagree with you on Cooper, and he has had some really big hits for us, even recently
He’s okay when healthy. But my problem, and many of his critics’ in our fan base problem with him is that he’s never healthy. And he’s not a franchise player, which is the type of player that is deserving of the type of job security that Cooper has with the Marlins. If he were Freddie Freeman, Paul Goldschmidt, Pete Alonso, etc. top tier/elite 1B he’d be worth waiting for to be healthy. He’s essentially one of the ‘dime-a-dozen’ 1B/DH types. He’s very replaceable, thus he does not deserve to have the level of job security he’s had with the Marlins. Only a franchise content with mediocrity would wait this many years for a guy like Cooper to be healthy instead of replacing him with the many many many guys that can stay healthy and give comparable or up to far better production. That’s what myself and the other Marlins fans and beat writers on the side of moving on from Cooper have been saying all along.
I know it’s a debate in our fan base over the last few years, but I always ask the question that not one Marlins fan that supports keeping Cooper has ever been able to answer/justify. What has Cooper done in his career that makes him the type of player that we wait for what is now several years, now into his age-32 season, for to come back instead of moving on and replacing him? For me, you don’t hold onto and wait for guys who may be productive or okay at dime-a-dozen levels. You hold onto and wait for star, cornerstone or franchise players.
To see how I look at it, if Jazz continues to get injured over the next couple of years, I look to move on from him too…and he’s a far more superior player and has far more value to the team than Cooper.
That’s how I view it. Always have. That’s the point that the side of the Marlins fan base and beat writers that want to move on from Cooper see it. I think even Joe Frisaro made some great points about it in a blog or article a couple of years ago about how Cooper was the posterboy for Marlins acceptance of ineptitude/mediocrity.
To add to my point. When you hold onto these type of guys, and don’t acquire players to replace them because you’re waiting for them to be healthy, you get what the Marlins have had with Cooper. He get’s injured, then you’re stuck with a replacement player at the position, and your initial plan going into the season goes into the garbage while you say “oh, if we were healthy…” I’m tired if these “if Garrett Cooper didn’t get injured…” seasons. There’s too many of them…and for a guy that does not and will never post franchise or cornerstone player production. I’m ready to move on from waiting for dime-a-dozen production.
Well I’ve explained many times why I disagree, and also, I dont get this idea you’re suggesting where you have problems with him b/c they didnt replace him? That’s so ridiculous lol…also, like, who were they going to replace him with exactly? Who did he being kept preclude them from getting? Sounds to me like you just wanted a replacement for the sake of a replacement, which wouldnt have changed anything….unless you’re saying they should have signed Freddie Freeman, which they should have if they were going tow waste their money on Garcia…but again, Cooper doesnt preclude them from that either
Also you talk about the injuries as if all but 1 of them werent caused by other people…
Joe Frisaro has zero credibility. He used to cry about bugs. He said Mike Trout wasnt that good. He said he wouldnt make more than 150 million…nothing he says holds any water. Also back then when Mattingly tried to say Cooper wasnt an every day player was as wrong as it got…so again, the clown show saying anything doesn’t hold any bairing on actual reality.
With Cooper, I feel that they could easily find someone that can put up comparable numbers, but as someone that can play everyday. They can easily match his production via another dime-a-dozen signing or via a trade for any number of 1B/DH types like him…but who actually stay on the field regardless of reason.
If say you want to give him the pass that his injuries weren’t him being fragile and only bad luck or whatever, then I don’t want that bad luck on our team. Let him sit on the IL somewhere else. We have Gurriel. I’d be pretty fine with him playing everyday for the rest of the season…which won’t be that far off since we know that Cooper will continue this trend of IL trips.
BTW, Cooper is a free agent at the end of this season. Would you want him to be re-signed or would you prefer the Marlins see what’s out on the market, and head in another direction? I ask because I have seen a couple of things of people mentioning him being extended.
As for Frisaro, I agree that he has lost a lot of credibility, but many of our fan base agree with his assessment of Cooper. You and I both know that this Cooper thing has been a debate on many Marlins discussion boards, with the majority of the fan base wanting to move on for at least the last couple of seasons. If Frisaro was the only person saying this or part of a very small group of fans saying what he said, that would be different. However, this is something that the majority of the fan base has expressed.
Sorry to break it down, but Cooper is not anything special that you hold onto with the hopes that he stays healthy – whether those injuries come from fragility or bad luck.
Would you be against the Marlins moving Arraez to 1B (his best position) next year as we move on from Cooper? Or do you want us to re-sign Cooper for his age-33 season that we’ll be once again hoping he doesn’t spend on the IL for?
with this all said, Go Marlins!
I just dont see Cooper as this significant issue, as is being implied…also, fans say a lot of things; it doesnt mean anything. We’ve discussed this before, but there was only really 1 time where it made sense to trade him, and he got hurt. Most of his injuries involve being hit by pitches or run into by others…
Moving forward, exploring other options will be the likely outcome, but it isnt some super imperative thing like getting rid of Garcia, etc
He’s not a significant issue if the Marlins don’t limit their moves due to counting on him – which seems like the case. At least this year we brought in Gurriel.
As for Garcia, we both know we’re stuck with him, unless we can move him for another bad contract that mutually makes sense. I honestly can think of any that’s worth it at this point. Previously, I was thinking Javy Baez, but not any more.
I really wish he was out for the season lol. Not wishing injury on anyone, but Garcia is dead weight and he will only hurt the Marlins chemistry that they have been building since May.