2:14pm: The Astros have placed Osuna on the 10-day injured list with right elbow soreness, according to Chandler Rome of the Houston Chronicle. He’ll be replaced on the active roster by right-handed pitcher Humberto Castellanos, who had previously been on the Astros’ taxi squad.
8:46am: Astros closer Roberto Osuna left Saturday’s game due to an arm injury, and manager Dusty Baker told reporters that Osuna will head from Anaheim to Houston to undergo an MRI. Facing his third batter of the ninth inning last evening, Osuna threw a pitch to the Angels’ Jason Castro and immediately signaled for the trainer to visit the mound. The right-hander was removed and replaced with Cy Sneed.
In the short term, Osuna’s injury quite possibly cost Houston the game, as Castro hit an RBI double to tie the score, and the Angels then scored the winning run in the 10th. But Saturday’s defeat could be a relatively small matter compared to a potentially serious arm problem for Osuna, especially considering how the Astros’ pitching staff has already been ravaged by injuries.
Chris Devenski, Brad Peacock, Joe Biagini, Jose Urquidy, Austin Pruitt, and reigning AL Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander are all on the injured list, while Ryan Pressly only just returned from a sore elbow. The Astros have made some recent acquisitions (signing Fernando Rodney and acquiring Hector Velazquez from the Orioles) to help fill out their pitching depth, though there’s only so much that can be done to replace so many sidelined hurlers.
Should Osuna’s MRI reveal any bad news, his loss would be a particularly tough one for the Astros. Osuna has a 2.45 ERA, 6.33 K/BB rate, and 9.3 K/9 over 92 innings since coming to the Astros from the Blue Jays in July 2018. Pressly might be the top choice for save situations with Osuna sidelined, though the club might want to ease Pressly back in action considering that Saturday marked his first game of the season.
I’m tempted to say something, but I won’t.
I think Verlander had the same thought…
Nice!
Doubt it
Ya he probably hurt it earlier in the day when he was backhanding his!!!! Oh never mind.
If MLB won’t sufficiently punish the Trashtros for their bad behavior (trash cans, Osuna, Brandon Taubman), Karma will have to do it for them!
Osuna was given a 75 game suspension under the domestic abuse l
policy.
He wasn’t tried by the criminal justice system.
Idk why people think the sports leagues need to be the ones to do something when the criminal justice system let’s them off.
Can’t play sports if you’re in jail.
He wasn’t tried in Canada because it was settled out of court plus he was traded before that happened anyway
He broke Major League Baseball’s rules. Players are often suspended for fighting, throwing at batters, bumping umpires, missing practice, etc. What happened with Osuna is no different. An employer can discipline, and even terminate, an employee without the aid of the criminal justice system.
You going to throw out that ring that Aroldis helped with?
So you expect the Jays, or any team, to do something about what he did..
But don’t actually expect the criminal justice system to do it’s job by prosecuting and putting people behind bars, people like him. You know punishment for your crime.
Got it. Really proving my point that fans, like you, hold teams to better standards than the criminal justice system.
You’re a clown & quite good at being one too, I might add!
Taubman was fired and banned by baseball for at least a year, and regardless i dont think he’s holding another high profile FO job again.
Scott, you Poor little guy….
But that logic scotty boy karma has struck every team with the record number of IL stints and covid-19 related players missing. Get off your high horse buddy
This furthers my belief that the Stros are going to take a chance on Kelvin Herrera should they have the opportunity.
I will keep my feelings reserved
One goes out and comes up lame.
No more Astros pitching in games
good.
thoughts and prayers!
Why is it when dusty gets pitchers and they start falling apart
You really can’t blame the coach this early in the season. You could argue that he has overworked pitchers in the past but he obviousy hasn’t done that in Houston and didn’t have such a problem in Washington either
Hard to over pitch when you don’t even make the playoffs
What? First of all that isn’t true and second of all the nationals made the playoffs both years that Dusty was managing. He’s never had issues getting a team to the playoffs
it must be astros’ turn to have a bunch of pitchers on i.l.
Paging Dr. Andrews,
I don’t think anyone will shed a tear or feel bad for him.
Hope for the best for ozuna and hope for the worst for the astros. Cheaters!!
why? osuna is a piece of trash that belongs in the banging can.
Yeah. He’s the lowest character guy on the team, which is really saying something.
yuli gurriel might be a close second
What has Yuli done? Made one facial gesture, but never heard a bad thing about him from anyone.
I’ll
I’ll forgive the cheating before the wife beating
Karma police ….
Soooo many little injuries to MLB players during the first week back, after “staying in shape and a second spring training”.
Strange????
There is a long spring training for a reason. Baseball is different than other sports. Stand around in the field, then you suddenly need to stretch muscles that haven’t been stretched in a while. The stop-and-start nature of this season hasn’t done these guys any favors. Staying in shape at home isn’t the same as stretching out in games. It is a hard sport to play, especially at that level.
“THANK GOD WE GOT OSUNA. I’M SO F*CKING GLAD WE GOT OSUNA”
You hate to see happen to such a good guy in a classy organization
Gotta keep the pimp hand strong…
I can’t decide between a cheating joke and an Ike Turner joke
Giles for Ozuna’s looking just about right