The Diamondbacks could be in for bad news regarding right-hander Shelby Miller, who, as Barry M. Bloom of MLB.com tweets, exited his start Sunday with forearm tightness. Arizona is scheduling an MRI for Miller, who lasted four-plus innings and allowed three earned runs in a loss to the Dodgers. Manager Torey Lovullo is trying to be optimistic, notes Bloom, but Steve Gilbert of MLB.com observes (on Twitter) that the situation is “not good.” Forearm tightness often portends Tommy John surgery, which would be the biggest setback yet in Miller’s rocky tenure with the Diamondbacks. The club’s previous regime drew seemingly endless criticism for sending a Dansby Swanson– and Ender Inciarte-led package to the Braves for Miller two winters ago. General manager Dave Stewart and senior vice president of baseball operations De Jon Watson lost their jobs last fall after Miller struggled through a 2016 to forget, pitching to a 6.15 ERA in 101 major league innings and enduring a demotion to the minor leagues. Thanks in part to improved velocity, though, Miller has fared respectably this year with a 4.09 ERA and 3.29 FIP in 22 frames.
More from the National League:
- With an .095/.186/.127 batting line in 70 plate appearances, Mets infielder Jose Reyes has been among the majors’ worst players this year. Nevertheless, the Mets aren’t considering releasing the 33-year-old, according to Newsday’s Marc Carig, who casts doubt on the possibility of the team cutting him even if his performance doesn’t improve soon. Reyes makes a minimum salary and is a speedy switch-hitter who can play shortstop, all of which are facts that work in his favor, Carig writes. While the Mets have an elite shortstop prospect in Amed Rosario, who has slashed .355/.382/.353 in 55 PAs this season, a promotion for him isn’t imminent, sources told Carig. The Mets don’t want to rush either the 21-year-old Rosario or first base prospect Dominic Smith (also 21) to the majors.
- Phillies left fielder Howie Kendrick’s previously reported abdominal strain is actually an oblique strain, one that’s likely to keep him out until “sometime in the early to mid part of May,” GM Matt Klentak informed Ryan Lawrence of PhillyVoice. With Kendrick unavailable for a while, Klentak acquired infielder/outfielder Ty Kelly from the Blue Jays on Saturday. It turns out the Klentak-led Phillies had Kelly on their radar in the past. “Kelly is a guy who was on waivers twice in the last few months, and both times that he was passing through waivers we were intrigued by him and would have liked to have placed a claim but our roster was in a position where he couldn’t do it,” Klentak said. “But now with the ability to transfer (Clay) Buchholz to the (60-day DL) and free up a spot, we were able to acquire him.” Aaron Altherr, not Kelly, will see the majority of time in left while Kendrick’s out, Lawrence notes.
- The Nationals will place righty Stephen Strasburg on the paternity leave list Monday, meaning he’ll miss his scheduled start Tuesday in Colorado, reports Mark Zuckerman of MASNsports.com. Washington is likely to recall Jacob Turner to fill Strasburg’s void for a start, while the latter will return in time to take the mound either Friday or Saturday.
Braves absolutely fleeced the Dbacks….if u take Swanson out of deal they still got better end of it….Enciarte = Miller…..plus the Braves got Aaron Blair and Swanson….lol
At least the Braves have something to celebrate because they sure are not winning anything for the next decade. Yeah, we get to celebrate a trade that may or may not have made a difference anyway.
Your comment made me chuckle. Sour a little? Seems like A LOT actually
Just beat the Mutts and keep your mouth closed :)!
10 years, aye? I’ll take that bet.
As would I.
What makes you think sooner? or are you that person who buys into “prospect hype”? Until, a player they acquired with this new “regime” succeeds, it’s a complete failure so far..and will be until they win..not 70 wins either.
As your initial comment said “anything”, I’d assume “anything counts” such as 1 regular season game, in which case you would have already lost.
Wow dude, good job deciphering that! Genius!
I’m playing the odds game. Depending on who you believe they have the top farm system. What you are currently seeing are the prospect and bet remnants of Wren’s obliteration of the ATL system – even Swanson. With quite a bit of money going forward and enough picks to in the foreseeable future, the system can produce for the next 6-8 years even with a higher than average failure rate. And I’d like to think the same scouts that discovered Chipper, Freeman, Robinson Cano and others would have a better than average failure rate. But considering that none of their draft picks have reached the majors yet, we shall see. Frankly, it is still preemptive to be basing your idea of this team 10 years from now when one-third of the team won’t even be in baseball in 10 years (Dickey, Colon, Kemp, Johnson, BP, Garcia, Markakis, Bonifacio, etc.).
Well obviously 10 years was a hyperbole but knowing this organization, no reason to believe they will win due to them never spending money to win.
Spending carelessly is what got them in this mess in the first place (i.e. Derek Lowe, Kawakami, Upton, Uggla, Chris Johnson, etc).
“10 years” was by no means an obvious hyberbole. All the responders read it quite literally, no signs of anyone thinking it hyperbole.
Hyperbole perhaps, but if so then very poorly written and by no means obvious.
I like hyperbole 110 percent of the time.
Hopefully nothing serious for Shelby.
While I never liked him as a pitcher and the trade was obviously hugely lopsided, I still hope that he can bounce back and have some success with the Snakes. Ideally he’d pitch great and steal some games from LAD, but first he needs to get past this injury…
I wonder who proposed that Swanson – Miller trade…..
From what I’ve heard, Marlins were asking for Swanson, Inciarte, Blair, Pollock and Corbin for Jose Fernandez. DBacks obviously declined but were then more open to moving some of those pieces and pulled the trigger when Atlanta offered Miller and Speier. Hard to say who made the initial offer but it’s bad for AZ either way.
No worries about your team here as the cheap Wilpons won’t spend any money..
Time to modify your identity here eventually to Metseventuallyin2086.
Reyes is cheap, and the longer they keep prospects down on the farm, the longer control they have. The Mets have some terrific talent, especially on their pitching staff. But they run their budget like Jeff Loria.
The Mets ownership are focused on being cheap, holding back young players for controllability sake, and milking pitchers arms so they have no staying power. Their talent on the pitching staff has damaged goods which will only get worse with the moron manager.
Correction. They don’t have terrific talent. They have overrated minor leaguers as a result of over promotion and exaggeration.
We all know the Mets owners are morons, you’re not breaking any new ground there.
In terms of their minor league talent, you are utterly without a clue. Keith Law, by far the most respected minor league authority out there, has their farm ranked 4th in all of MLB, and ranks Rosario as the #1 prospect in all of baseball. Him and Dom Smith are torching AAA right now.
And lol at a Yankee fan claiming prospect hype. Before last season, you guys went like 10 years without developing a single starting player, or starting pitcher.
Much to your chagrin, (and despite their slow start) this Mets team is just seeing their window opening and they are going to be around for quite a while.
Despite their owners.
It’s obvious that mikeyank is jealously obsessed with the Mets. And, as stated; clueless.
Overrated minor leaguers? You mean like Fulmer who is another TOR guy they traded to DET? How about Rosario, who has been asked for by many teams the Mets have approached for trades? Even fatty Dom Smith is doing well. Their lower minors have multiple live arms (that are 2-3 years off). Recent promotions like Lugo and Gsellman should both turn into serviceable #4/#5 guys (upside of a #2/#3) or possibly a nasty closer. That’s terrific talent.
I think Howie Kendrick is going to be sitting on the bench by the time he gets back; Altherr has shown 5 tool flashes before, and it looked like he put it all together this spring…
It seems like a lot of these pitchers who see a velo spike also end up seeing James Andrews.
Yeah, Strasburg’s wife just happens to be pregnant and ready to give birth when he’s due to pitch at Coors. I bet Boras planned this whole thing 9 1/2 months ago
Mets are complacent like always. Why improve when you can not improve instead
extension already signed but a creative comment nonetheless
Because a poor outing this week will hurt his free agent case in 7 years?
I love that he takes off for Coors, but he’ll be ready for the Mets!! Ugh. They never miss Stras or Scherzer….ever. If the Mets don’t move Thor, he’ll miss the Nats this weekend, which will suck….and not just bc I’ll be at the games.
Let’s not forget…in addition to all-but giving away Swanson and Inciarte, they also traded Segura and Haniger to the Mariners for a pitcher whose ERA is pushing 5.
That trade was always risky for both sides. Even if walker turns into at back of the rotation pitcher, they have him for multiple years, while segura was a one year rental. Giving up haniger might hurt though
They also got Ketel Marte who’s lighting up AAA right now. It’s WAY too early to judge that trade, especially considering the fact that the Mariners are in last place in their division at the moment so clearly Haniger and Segura aren’t having too much of an impact anyways.
the record of the team is a stupid way to judge to evaluate a player’s impact. Baseball doesn’t work like that. Last year the angels were 74-88, does that mean mike trout wasn’t “having too much of an impact”?
to judge or evaluate*
Marte has .450 babip, but that much lower K% is a nice sign.
No, it means Mike Trout had a great year on a bad team. It also means Trout complied some of his numbers is essentially meaningless games, that’s why players with similar individual numbers on contending teams merit more MVP consideration.
A great player adds value to his career when his team makes the postseason, and that value increases when he stars on the biggest stage. It’s true across all team sports. Decades from now, it would be depressing if a talent like Trout never won a pennant. A player’s career WAR isn’t the stuff of memories, so often, it’s what he does against the better competition in very meaningful games.
“Trout complied some of his numbers is essentially meaningless games” And? Is this somehow his fault? No, it’s not. Because baseball requires a team of players to be good. He did everything he could to make that team good. Which is why using a team’s record to judge a players impact is dumb. Which was my point. You can’t evaluate Segura and Haniger based on a team’s record.
To the rest of your post value =/= impact. If you think a player’s team getting to the post season somehow improves that individual player’s accomplishments I’d like to hear your argument for that. And just saying because people think so, isn’t an argument.
And what does being the stuff of memories have to do, at all, with what a player’s impact is? You seem like you are just pushing the terrible media narrative.
I get what you are saying, but this isn’t Patrick Ewing piling up stats on a crap NYK team…Trout is a generational player who is playing great DESPITE being on some god awful teams.
Jose Reyes. Hmmm. Doesn’t seem to have any baseball skills left AND he beats up women. Probably not a lot of value in keeping him on the roster, right?
His domestic abuse history is concerning and should be a black mark that follows him, but speaking just about baseball…he’s been brutal this year. He had the 2nd lower BAA of qualified position players (as of 2-3 games ago). He looked reborn last year for the Mets, but I think age has caught up with him. The Mets have 2-3 other guys who are a better fit at 3B than Jose right now. He needs to take a week or more off and the Mets need to find a better option. Flores can be part-time, maybe TJ, or maybe they can make a buy-low type trade.