The Angels have placed lefty Tyler Skaggs and outfielder Chris Young on the 10-day disabled list, per a club announcement. That pair will be replaced by righty Deck McGuire and outfielder Jabari Blash.
In more promising news, right-hander Garrett Richards has been reinstated from his own stint on the DL. He’ll take the active roster spot of utilityman Kaleb Cowart, who was optioned back to Triple-A.
Skaggs has been diagnosed with a strain in his right thigh adductor, Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register tweets. His placement is backdated to July 1st. It is not clear at this point what kind of absence the Halos expect for Skaggs, but anything more than a brief respite would represent quite a disappointing turn of events.
It has to this point been a breakthrough campaign for Skaggs, who’s preparing to celebrate his 27th birthday later this month. In 92 innings, he owns a 2.64 ERA with 9.8 K/9 and 2.6 BB/9. Unfortunately, health remains a major limiting factor for the talented hurler.
As for Young, he hasn’t been productive at all since joining the Angels on a one-year deal. But he has outperformed Kole Calhoun, who’ll now presumably be spelled against lefties by Blash.
Things had finally seemed to be clicking for the Angels earlier this year. But an ongoing run of injuries has contributed to a slide back to the .500 mark — good only for fourth place in a competitive AL West division.
What is going on with the pitchers on this team? If you were the owner wouldn’t you start examining the strength & conditioning regimen and coaches.
It’s gotten way beyond the bad luck and misfortune stage. Ownership needs to hire an independent evaluator to determine the cause of this years-long rash of injuries.
Moreno isn’t concerned with player health. Well, not directly anyway. He just wants his income. Maybe he’s the reason we only get waiver additions to help our bullpen.
There HAS to be something going on though. Whether it’s the coaching staff, trainers or players not being transparent with injuries, something is going on and it’s sad to see. Counting today, the Angels have lost 601 games played by players on their DL this season. Absolutely ridiculous.
Its mostly sprains, strains and tears which should be at least partially avoidable with proper strength/conditioning and usage monitoring.
So no, it’s not all bad luck as some like to wish it away as – the team is helping create the environment for these injuries to happen. This is especially true considering they have a bunch of susceptible players to start.
They need a full reevaluation of the club from the top down. Doubt Arte ever would though
It must be Russia. Yeah, let’s start an investigation. Very weak minded of you.
All Angels fans knew (not some of you), from the start of the season the this was a rotation that was very iffy.
Everyone, all of the first six or seven starters were either head away from past injuries and were much more susceptible to more.
You can say the same thing about the Dodgers.
Who the f* is calling for government intervention? Just back up off the ledge, snowflake. Both I and the OP said the owner (he who has hired the guys who have instituted the philosophy which is creating the issue) should be looking into and doing something about the problem within his organization.
But you don’t have some 20 pitchers on the DL between your top couple clubs just because they have had injuries in the past – you get that by not taking care of them while they are seemingly healthy. Again, most all of these are “overuse” or otherwise avoidable injuries with proper care they are not getting with this club.
And don’t give me that ‘you didn’t know, but angels fans did’ nonsense as you can go back in these cery comments and see the arguments I had with Angels fanboys like yourself who were insisting everything was roses despite the reality
I knew all these issues with the Angels starters since early LAST year. The knowledgeable fans knew it and hoped for the best.
There is no overuse. Check the stats.
I can’t help it if you don’t know what “overuse” injuries are or how to prevent them, and not sure why you can’t grasp this isn’t just a one-year issue in the organization. But when you have about 20 pitchers and a bunch of hitters all out with them at the same time, its a sign your organizations bad practices have spiraled out of control – it’s not dumb luck
Please show the data you have collected to back up your assertion of “overuse”.
Ah, you can’t provide the raw data? You can only offer assertions without proof? I thought so…
So annoying how we can’t go a week without losing someone. Skaggs having a really nice year to. ridicoulous
How long will Skaggs be out for? He’s had a great year. A shame
Oh, stop the madness with the nonsense about strength and conditioning coaches being responsible.
Injuries to Simmons and Cozart happened on camera, in games. Neither had anything to do with conditioning.
Arm injuries are cumulative damage over many years, usually before the pitcher entered pro ball. The act of throwing a baseball as a pitcher does is unnatural to begin with, and many of today’s pitchers started throwing curveballs too early in their physical development, and played on year-round schedules instead of playing multiple sports.
Finally, this is a problem for all MLB teams, not just the Angels. It is especially prominent with them due to their reliance on young arms in the rotation, instead of veterans who have already had the procedure done.
Yeah it was common knowledge that our collective group of arms were far from durable. Majority were coming back from major surgeries and the others were certainly not proven workhorses.
I actually think the culture change many are calling for is already upon us. I look at this injury (thigh) and the one that sent G-Rich to the DL (hamstring) and see precaution. These guys have something that seems minor pop up during a post start check-up and they are being held out until it’s a non issue. Garret missed a few starts, I expect a similar time frame for Skaggs.