The Rays have placed third baseman Yandy Diaz on the 10-day injured list, Juan Toribio of MLB.com tweets. Infielder Daniel Robertson will come up to take the roster opening.
Diaz has been dealing with hamstring tightness that hasn’t resolved quite as rapidly as had been hoped. The club obviously felt it could no longer afford to carry an unavailable players.
There’s little reason at present to think that Diaz will be sidelined for more than the minimum, though it’ll all depend upon how the muscle heals up. The Rays will hope for a swift return for the 27-year-old, who has been everything they hoped for and more since arriving via trade.
Diaz has racked up 248 plate appearances of .286/.363/.502 hitting and 11 home runs on the season. That’s just the sort of output the Tampa Bay organization got last year from Robertson, but he scuffled to open the current campaign and ended up on optional assignment. There’s now a bit of a window for him to reclaim a MLB role, though there isn’t as much opportunity with Joey Wendle back in action.
Link to wrong Daniel Robertson. Besides Diaz and his stats aren’t really similar.
Yeah that Robertson is gone from baseball
Probably meant Daniel Johnson
Well, Joey Wendle’s hitting about .100, which isn’t much competition for Robertson. But then Robertson’s basically stunk this year too.
July 31= Anthony Rendon….makes all the sense in the world…..they have the prospects, and Stuie’s got the money….
Sure….Stu has the money but he’d rather complain about everything else than actually do something about it. He insinuates that Tampa is the place to be but won’t pony up an actual number to build it. Please find a Jeff Vinik type of owner.
Viniks best thing that happened to Tampa. MLB laughed at 50/50 deal for a new stadium and wants the city to pony 85% of the cost. Mind you the 15% down payment per say the rays are capturing that money from a reduced payroll for 3 years prior to money needed. Indeed rays owner wants the Tampa community to buy him a new 1 billion dollar stadium. Pls Tampa elected officials review marlins case prior to giving away our money
Love mlb and like the rays despite a disconnect with a non local owner
Do you mean like how last year Vinik and the Lightning agreed not to relocate from Amelia Arena for 10 years, in exchange Hillsborough County had to increase their public spending on Amelia Arena improvements from $47.5 million up to $108.5 million? What kind of press do you Sternberg would have received if he had done the same thing?
True or not, the perception is always going to be Stuie makes decisions on the dollar (which everybody does) , regardless of any other factor (which is not true among other owners). D-Rob’s comments, re: his demotion, were telling, suggesting it was the “business side” (if he stays on the 25 all year, he’s likely a Super-2 next year).
Now the reality is that his demotion was more than justifiable, based on his performance. But when the FO won’t even commit only money to acquire EE, it’s tough to sell even the players that they have any concern with winning, and that it’s all about money.
Stuie’s just is never going to get the trust of the fanbase in his corner, unless he miraculously expands the payroll this year, when there’s an obvious opportunity to produce a winner.
Trading Diaz was such a horrible move for the Indians. Its just really hard to fathom how they flip someone that’s a solid defender at third with his offensive profile for the defensively limited Bauers and Santana. They actually committed to additional money swapping Santana for Encarnacion in this deal so it literally makes zero sense. They could have been playing Ramirez at the keystone and Yandy at third at this point while retaining Edwin and been a much better team. That’s some bad GM work right there.
The Indians ownership and front office got arrogant. They all but declared they were division winners before the fist pitch of spring trading and they didn’t need to improve the product on the field. How’s that working out?
That’s a bit overwrought, isn’t it? Are you telling me that if I told you the Tribe was four over .500 (similar to what they’ve been in recent years) at this point in the season, that you would think they’d be ten games behind the Twins? No you wouldn’t and neither did the Tribe deep-thinkers. At worst, if the Twins were normally “hot,” maybe you’d be five out, not ten. The trouble isn’t the Tribe’s “arrogance” or payroll (after all, it’s the same payroll as the larger market Twins), it’s simply the Twins’ fine play. The Tribe could have backed up the truck, spent stupidly, and would still find themselves where they are. And in truth, had Jose Ramirez and Jason Kipnis hit like the back of their baseball cards say they should, and the Tribe not encountered numerous injuries to the starting staff and Lindor, they most certainly would be in better position. I love second-guessers who pontificate about organizational arrogance yet ignore the excellent moves which have upgraded the catching position and added top tier depth to the upper minors, not to mention all the moves that were made that led to the major league’s best bullpen on a shoestring. That’s smart, not arrogant. And it’s working out just fine, thank you!
Oh yeah, horrible, just terrible. Just like the Cliff Lee trade and the CC Sabathia trade. Terrible, horrible. How about you wait and judge results a little bit down the road, eh? Michael Brantley and Carlos Carrasco gave the Tribe every thing they hoped and more in those deals, and I’m sure you were one of the first to hammer the Indians for them. Jake Bauers is not only four years younger than Yandy Diaz, but has positional flexibility Yandy can only dream of. I love Yandy, and hated that the Tribe jerked him around, but the man couldn’t play the outfield, really can only play first and third passably, while Bauers can actually catch the ball in the outfield, and is a wizard at first base. He’s a much better athlete than Yandy and can actually run. Yandy has one tool: hit ball hard. But you have to stay healthy and you have to wear a glove at some point. Again, I love Yandy, but it’s a tad early to declare a winner in this deal. Way, way too soon. But you’ll never have to live with your premature comments, will you? You’ll be long gone.
bucketbrew keep living your life in hindsight or share your magic ball with 5h3 rest of us. Yandy was a muscle-bound singles hitter without a position in Cleveland. While they took on more salary with the trade for Santana, $25mil for one year of EE or $35mil for two years of Santana and Bauers to split LF/DH/DH duties was worth the risk given the holes. Santana has been raking and Bauers is finally finding his stroke, even if they signed Harper and Machado they wouldn’t be much better off right now.
I just don’t understand why they recalled Daniel after less than a week when Nate Lowe has performed so much better? We have a thousand infielders that can rotate between all 4 positions, why not call up someone who has actually hit the ball THIS YEAR? And for the love of God, can we get some relievers/closers that know how to keep the ball inside the park?
Lowe in his last 18 AAA games:
.333/.468/.508
Don’t get it either.
I dont know why this organization is so gung ho on Robertson. Solid year last year, but that was an outlier—he is lost at the plate, yet Cash keeps putting him third in the lineup. Would love to see Nate Lowe get another chance; we cannot get Diaz back quickly enough.
Agreed. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: when Daniel is locked in he IS a good hitter, but he hasn’t shown that at ALL this season. Plus, his fielding is taking a dive. He needs to go back to Durham and figure his stuff out. Bring back Nate Lowe & Christian Arroyo to cover the infield rotation and actually get the bats on the ball.
And what about Keon Wong? Still tearing it up and still waiting for HIS callup. There’s something going on behind the scenes with him…..he can play several positions and no one ever mentions him. Arroyo goes down…Arroyo comes up…etc.
Wow, I completely forgot about Kean Wong. You’re totally right. He should be up here, Daniel should go back. Joey Wendle deserves a little bit of time to get back in the swing of things. If he’s still struggling after the all star break maybe he should go back too. But I agree, bring up Kean and give him another shot.