Mariners outfielder Guillermo Heredia has undergone surgery on his right shoulder, per a club announcement. With a full offseason to recover, the 26-year-old is expected to be ready for Spring Training.
While the overall prognosis seems promising, it appears to be a fairly significant surgery. Heredia is said to have required repair of a Bankart lesion — one of the varieties of labrum tears that can occur.
Fortunately, though, the injury did not occur to his throwing side. More importantly, he’s not a pitcher. And given the timing, there’s plenty of time for rehab work.
Heredia played a significant role for the M’s this year and is expected to continue to do so into the future. While he’s generally regarded as a talented defender, though, he managed only a .249/.315/.337 slash with six home runs over 426 plate appearances in 2017. Clearly, that output will need to increase if he’s going to keep receiving so much playing time.
Seattle is already going to be looking to add an outfielder with Jarrod Dyson heading to free agency. Heredia’s status injects a bit of added uncertainty to the situation, though given the outlook it doesn’t seem as if Seattle’s plans will change significantly due to the surgery.
Hit .135 in his last 33 games in 2017, possibly because of his shoulder.
Was hitting like .287 before that I believe.
I had surgery on my right surgery once. Recovery was brutal.
Bahahahah
surgery on a surgery sounds terrible….
Do M’s fans think heredia is a starting outfielder? I’m interested to know, I’ve seen a fair amount of people say he is but the numbers would seem to tilt otherwise.
I don’t think he is, but he is a quality fill-in 4th outfielder type.
Eventually the starting OF will more than likely be Gamel, Haniger and Lewis with Heredia being the 4th OFer. He could take Gamel’s place if he comes back and hits in that .290 range continually. He doesn’t hit for power but has the speed.
Having Heredia in there actually works better because he can play CF Lewis in RF and Haniger in LF. That of course depends on how Lewis heals after his surgery. That will be a very good OF IMHO.
Sign CarGo, he was red hot in the 2nd half.