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Latest On A’s A.J. Puk

By Connor Byrne | July 24, 2020 at 11:17pm CDT

The Athletics’ A.J. Puk’s injury woes continued this week when the club placed the left-hander on the IL to start the season because of shoulder inflammation. While Puk is on track to begin throwing again, his 2020 debut still appears to be pretty far off, manager Bob Melvin revealed (via Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle).

“It’s going to be at least a couple of weeks of just playing catch — and not too far out,” Melvin said. “We’re a ways off before we have an update on him.”

Puk’s a former first-round pick (No. 6 in 2016) who has remained a standout prospect as he has climbed up the minor league ranks. He held his own in his major league debut in 2019 with 11 1/3 innings of 10-hit, four-run ball with 13 strikeouts against five walks. But Oakland’s goal isn’t for Puk to emerge as a key reliever – rather, the team’s hoping he will emerge as a front-line starter. Unfortunately, arm problems have been a regular occurrence for Puk, who underwent Tommy John surgery in April 2018 and has dealt with shoulder issues during the past several months. He still hasn’t made a major league start as a result.

Injuries in its pitching staff are nothing new for Oakland, which overcame a litany of health troubles from 2018-19 en route to back-to-back 97-win seasons and playoff berths. The A’s once again look like serious contenders as this season gets underway, but they’ve begun with a shorthanded rotation because of the absences of Puk and fellow star lefty prospect Jesus Luzardo. They opened the campaign with a rotation consisting of Frankie Montas, Sean Manaea, Mike Fiers, Chris Bassitt and Daniel Mengden.

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  1. Cegmyster

    2 years ago

    Well with the new playoff format I definitely have the A’s making the playoffs this year. I have their record 32-28. Maybe this year they can’t get past the lst round. We’ll see

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  2. Javia

    2 years ago

    A.J. Puk has has always had huge talent but has also always been a huge tease. The is a reason he wasn’t the first overall pick in his draft. He may have a pretty good career but I doubt he will ever truly fulfill his promise. Luzardo will undoubtedly end up with a better career.

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    • ChapmansVacuum

      2 years ago

      Eh, he was pretty healthy and effective up till the TJ surgery so hopefully once he is fully up and running he stops having these problems. On the plus side a lot of the other question marks about him from 2016 like his mechanics and control have been mostly fixed so its now just about getting and staying healthy.

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  3. Asfan0780

    2 years ago

    Hard to trust either puk or luzardo injury history. Toss in kaprelian and daulton jeffries too who’s another of their top pitching prospects that have injury uncertainty. I wonder if they trade for more starting pitching depth at some point using their blocked and close to mlb ready outfield and infield prospects

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  4. Cegmyster

    2 years ago

    Basically, just reading that make’s you wanna puk

    Reply
    • Oscar Gamble

      2 years ago

      Nice line Cegmyster

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