Angels reliever Jake Jewell has been diagnosed with a fractured right fibula, the team announced and MLB.com’s Maria Guardado was among those to report (Twitter links). He will require season-ending surgery.
Jewell suffered the injury on a play at the plate last night. The images left little doubt that he was seriously hurt, with a cart removing him from the diamond. At this point, his long-term outlook is not clear, though hopefully he’ll be able to rest and rehab over the winter and return to full strength next spring.
Certainly, that’s not how anyone would have wished Jewell’s third MLB outing would end. The 25-year-old, a former fifth-round draft pick, had only just ascended to the big leagues to help fill out an increasingly thin Halos’ staff. Now, he’s the latest to go down with injury — in this case, in quite an unusual and unfortunate manner.
Jewell had never even pitched at Triple-A when the 2018 season began. He quickly earned a promotion to the highest level of the minors, but had struggled there before moving to the bigs. In 25 frames at Triple-A, Jewell managed a 3.60 ERA but handed out 6.1 BB/9 to go with his 8.6 K/9 and 54.9% groundball rate. Jewell, who had previously been added to the 40-man roster to protect him from the Rule 5 draft, did show a 97+ mph heater in his brief time in the majors.
The Angels need an exorcism.
TJS on his ankle
LoL…. funny
What Elder God did Anaheim piss off?
They are built next to an American Indian burial site look it up
Not true
But it’s a good story
It is true you liar stop spreading false info
I think that when they added Los Angeles to their name, even though they are in Orange County, it pissed off Mickey Mouse. And, I suspect he is responsible for all this.
That mouse don’t play around
If you’re an Angel, you will get injured.
Or a metropolitan
No more Angels in the outfield….they all have broken wings.
At least Trout is still healthy.
Knock on wood, just in case.
YOU SHUT UP RIGHT NOW!!
Silver lining for Jewell: my understanding is that this will land him on the major league disabled list until he’s healthy, so at least he can make his prorated portion of the major league minimum (~$500k/187 days = ~$2700/day) while riding out the injury, instead of possibly being demoted at some point and making a tiny fraction of that.
The extra $$ is nice, but I’m sure he’d rather be playing. I watched that game, his injury was brutal to look at. Thought he broke his ankle at first.
I thought for sure he snapped some tendons or ligaments when I saw it. Speedy and full recovery I hope.
It looked gruesome, dodged a bullet not breaking tibia. it’s likely soft tissue damage yet to be reported.
Scioscia is the jinx! Get rid of him and all is well
Oh yeah explain 1982 and 1986 the curse was there then
“54.9% walk rate.” Ground balls make sense instead
Yeesh. Thanks, fixed.
Moreno needs to take control of his team again and make some moves. New 10 year deal for Josh Hamilton!
CJ Wilson could probably use a few million to drive racecars with.
Does he get paid a major league salary for the whole year he is out?
GG god you win and the angels suck, good for you