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Quick Hits: Braun, Sanchez, Benintendi, Rizzo

By Mark Polishuk | April 30, 2017 at 11:18pm CDT

Ryan Braun left after six innings of today’s 4-3 Brewers win over the Braves due to what the star outfielder called “wear and tear” in his right arm, according to MLB.com’s Adam McCalvy and other reporters.  “It can get irritated swinging, throwing and then obviously you’re playing through it and it continues at times to gradually get worse, and I think that’s kind of what happens,” Braun said.  While he believes he can avoid a 10-day DL stint, Braun did think he would be sidelined for the next couple of games.  Though Braun vaguely alluded to more than one issue with his arm, the Brewers officially announced the injury as tightness in his right trapezius.  Here’s more from around the baseball world…

  • Aaron Sanchez is likely headed back to the 10-day DL after suffering a split nail on his right middle finger, and the Blue Jays righty tells MLB.com’s Gregor Chisholm and other reporters that his latest finger issue was unforeseen.  “We really didn’t know going into today it was going to be an issue,” Sanchez said.  “I think, once you get into game mode, game speed, pressure on that nail starts to disperse in certain areas and maybe it wasn’t strong enough because it was cut….It’s still frustrating, but I did everything I was supposed to do and everything I’ve done before to be ready for this start.  It was just one of those things where you don’t even think about the nail splitting in a different direction.”  Sanchez was originally placed on the 10-day DL with a blister on that same finger, and he underwent a procedure earlier this month to remove part of the nail.  Sanchez was just activated from the DL today but his abbreviated return lasted only an inning once his finger began bleeding.  Though the Jays managed to win today, Sanchez’s probable continued absence is more bad news for the struggling club, as Toronto ended April with just an 8-17 record and the second-worst winning percentage in baseball.
  • The Cubs had their eyes on Andrew Benintendi in the 2015 draft, and the Boston Globe’s Alex Speier writes that Chicago “seemed likely” to take Benintendi with the ninth overall pick.  “His agent heard from the Cubs that he was the guy they wanted,” Chris Benintendi, Andrew’s father, said.  Before the Cubs could make their move, however, the Red Sox snagged Benintendi with the seventh overall pick.  Though the Cubs took highly-regarded prospect Ian Happ with their selection, this could be an interesting what-if scenario for Cubs fans if and when Benintendi’s star continues to rise.
  • On the flip side of the “one that got away” coin, Speier also examines an alternate reality where the Red Sox didn’t trade Anthony Rizzo to the Padres as part of the blockbuster that brought Adrian Gonzalez to Boston in the 2010-11 offseason.  At the time, Rizzo was just a promising first base prospect sent along with first-rounders Casey Kelly and Reymond Fuentes in exchange for an established star in Gonzalez.  That trade, of course, had enormous long-reaching implications on the recent pasts of the Red Sox, Cubs, Padres, and Dodgers, to name just a few teams that would’ve been impacted had that trade not been completed.  (For instance, if the Red Sox had re-signed Adrian Beltre that winter and moved Kevin Youkilis to first base rather than acquire Gonzalez, then obviously the last six years of Rangers baseball is greatly different.)
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  1. bfolls

    8 years ago

    Dang Benintendi on the Cubs…..

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    • chesteraarthur

      8 years ago

      There was plenty of talk about this at the time the draft happened. I guess most “cubs fans” weren’t really paying attention to the team at that point though.

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      • clazar18

        8 years ago

        Lame shot at cubs fans. Yes near draft time Benintendi was tied to the Cubs along with atleast 3 other potential prospect names that had long shots of dropping to the #9 spot. To suggest Benintendi should have been a house hold name for the average Cubs fan in June 2015 is just dumb.

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      • thegreatcerealfamine

        8 years ago

        Cubs fans..cough*cough..Bandwagoners!!

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        • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

          8 years ago

          The Reds “Bandwagon Cubs Fan Cam” with subtitles was one of the funniest things I’ve seen at a ballpark.

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      • OldishCubsFan

        8 years ago

        Congrats on the dumbest comment in the history of sports. I’ve been a Cubs fan for 48 years and I sure as ____ don’t remember the names of potential draftees not named Bryant. But then, some of us have real stuff to do. It’s called life.

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        • thegreatcerealfamine

          8 years ago

          His point exactly!

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        • chesteraarthur

          8 years ago

          So you have time to read and comment on an article on may 1st, but you are too busy to read about your teams potential top 10 draft picks? Convenient timing for that stuff and life to crop up…

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        • amishthunderak

          8 years ago

          That’s amazing, because the whole world knew at #2 the Cubs would take whichever of the two pitchers that the Astros didn’t take at #1, with those being Mark Appel and Jon Gray. Then they shocked the whole baseball world by picking Bryant.

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        • amishthunderak

          8 years ago

          I can read about my teams possible picks today and forget all about them after the draft. They aren’t on my favorite team so they are dead to me.

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      • Cubguy13

        8 years ago

        Yeah you could only be a “Cubs fan” if you pay attention to the draft. Wasn’t aware of that rule

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    • alexgordonbeckham

      8 years ago

      Wouldn’t have gotten that far as the team who drafted next, the White Sox, were really high on him and would have taken him. But Benintendi was taken a pick before the Sox pick.

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  2. dstuart

    8 years ago

    Being a Hog fan I watched Benintendi every game in college. I was hoping he’d fall to the Giants but I thought that was a pipe dream. My only hope was comparing Trout falling all the way to 25. Dude will be a stud for years

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    • tharrie0820

      8 years ago

      It usually seems like only high school players drop like that. Good, polished college players rarely fall that far

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  3. pplama

    8 years ago

    Benintendi not really a “what if” story for the Cubs. As he was also rumored to be #1 on the White Sox board. They’d have snatched him up with pick #8.

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    • ronabuelo

      8 years ago

      This. Most teams I’m sure had him on the their draft board. Non-story

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  4. nysoxsam

    8 years ago

    These what ifs probably happen more than people think. I guess it’s fodder for an article but not much more. If the Cubs tried to move up in the draft that would be a real story. Traded to move up in baseball drafts don’t seem to happen often like in other sports.

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    • mahoney

      8 years ago

      That’s because MLB doesn’t allow trading of picks, so it actually never happens.

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    • Ilikesox

      8 years ago

      Lmao

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  5. Steven P.

    8 years ago

    Benintendi would not have made it past the White Sox at #8 overall, so this article is pretty pointless

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    • ReverieDays

      8 years ago

      Like the majority of stuff guys write about.

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  6. 66TheNumberOfTheBest

    8 years ago

    If he’s drafted before you even pick, he’s not exactly “the one who got away.”

    The Pirates passed on Trout because Tony Sanchez cut an under slot deal before the draft. THAT is the one who got away.

    The Pirates passed on Matt Wieters because McClatchy was so cheap they used a #4 pick on a relief pitcher. (Not a SP who later became a RP, btw, a college reliever) THAT is the one who got away.

    The Pirates used a #2 pick on Jameson Taillon (who I absolutely love) but #3 was Manny Machado. THAT….yeah.

    Orioles fans should be glad I wasn’t randomly named the GM of the Pirates for no good reason in the mid 00’s, they’d have only seen Wieters and Machado in a few road games.

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    • tylerall5

      8 years ago

      Tony Sanchez… oh the agony.

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      • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

        8 years ago

        The Tony Sanchez pick was (seemingly) necessary because they passed on Wieters.

        Who knows, if they drafted Wieters over Moskos…maybe they would have ended up with Trout, too?

        Wieters, Trout and McCutchen on the same team.

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    • chesteraarthur

      8 years ago

      I thought Taillon and Machado were pretty similarly value @ the time of the draft?

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      • 66TheNumberOfTheBest

        8 years ago

        I was really out of watching baseball at that point, so I knew very little about either, I just felt like a power hitting short stop is such a rare (at the time) commodity, you have to take him.

        Ironically now that I know a lot more and follow it more closely, I actually agree with what the Pirates did as it’s their only chance to get TOR starters.

        So, I would have made the right choice out of ignorance.

        None of this is to bash Taillon, who is great and whose injuries have actually helped the Pirates as he’ll be under club control for his entire prime.

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    • Ry.the.Stunner

      8 years ago

      One of these is not like the others.

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  7. Mikel Grady

    8 years ago

    Cubs didn’t tank very well that year . Had a hot streak at end of year or would have had him. Happ is no slouch and time will tell.

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