The Astros have placed catcher Brian McCann on the seven-day concussion disabled list, retroactive to Saturday, and selected the contract of fellow backstop Juan Centeno from Triple-A, per Brian McTaggart of MLB.com (on Twitter).
McCann is now the second prominent Astro to hit the DL since Saturday, joining ace Dallas Keuchel on the shelf. Like Keuchel, McCann has thrived for the 29-14 Astros, owners of the majors’ best record. McCann, whom Houston acquired from the Yankees in an offseason trade, has slashed .269/.365/.454 with six home runs and as many walks as strikeouts (17) in 126 plate appearances. On the defensive side, the 33-year-old has continued a careerlong trend of serving as a plus pitch framer, according to Baseball Prospectus.
Fortunately for the Astros, they do have a quality reserve behind McCann in the power-hitting Evan Gattis, who has also performed well this season. Centeno, an offseason minor league signing, will back up Gattis. The 27-year-old Centeno has been great this season at Triple-A, where he has slashed .368/.395/.487 line in 83 PAs, though he hasn’t been nearly as successful in the majors. In 258 big league PAs, including 192 with the Twins last year, Centeno has hit .236/.290/.338. Behind the plate, BP ranked him among the majors’ worst framers in 2016.
For being injury free so far they’re starting to mount
A concussion and a pinched nerve aren’t that bad. It’s not like a torn Achilles and TJ
Or the dreaded rotator cuff surgery.
Juan Centeno could be good. But that’s just my Two Centenos.
No one cares :}
You did, enough to notice and comment (although vapidly).
Funny you should accuse me of that seeing how you’ve basically cornered the market on making vapid comments : }
Read my take on the Mets training and medical staff piece here in MLBTR, based on the original article. Tell me if that’s vapid.
p.s. Look up “accuse” in your Funk & Wagnalls.
While you’re there, look up “humorless” too.
Can’t find it hidden among all of your “Dude, did you hear Bethancourt cleared waivers!?” comments : }
That’s ok. I didn’t think someone who’s spearheading the Padres resurgence would have time to read something a tad deep, and reply thoughtfully, and all that kind of weird stuff.
“I refuse to fight a battle of wits with someone who comes unarmed.”
See ya.
Pot, meet kettle.
If you continue to post vapid comments that no one cares about and beat a horse into the ground that was never funny in the first place, no one will take your serious comments as you intend them.
: }
P.S. I wondering who it was that kept downvoting all my comments, even the ones where all I did was (correctly) answer a question that someone else asked. I think I have the answer to that now…
Centeno, in addition to being a surname, is the word for Rye in Spanish. It is derived from centenum the Latin word for the number 100, because it was said that the plant could produce 100 grains on each stalk. Therefore, Juan Centeno would translate to John Rye.
Al west is a weak division