Headlines

  • Brewers Designate Luke Voit For Assignment
  • White Sox To Activate Liam Hendriks From Injured List
  • Royals Release Hunter Dozier
  • Yankees Release Aaron Hicks
  • Brewers Sign Julio Teheran To Major League Deal
  • Red Sox Move Corey Kluber To Bullpen
  • Previous
  • Next
Register
Login
  • Hoops Rumors
  • Pro Football Rumors
  • Pro Hockey Rumors

MLB Trade Rumors

  • Home
  • Teams
    • AL East
      • Baltimore Orioles
      • Boston Red Sox
      • New York Yankees
      • Tampa Bay Rays
      • Toronto Blue Jays
    • AL Central
      • Chicago White Sox
      • Cleveland Guardians
      • Detroit Tigers
      • Kansas City Royals
      • Minnesota Twins
    • AL West
      • Houston Astros
      • Los Angeles Angels
      • Oakland Athletics
      • Seattle Mariners
      • Texas Rangers
    • NL East
      • Atlanta Braves
      • Miami Marlins
      • New York Mets
      • Philadelphia Phillies
      • Washington Nationals
    • NL Central
      • Chicago Cubs
      • Cincinnati Reds
      • Milwaukee Brewers
      • Pittsburgh Pirates
      • St. Louis Cardinals
    • NL West
      • Arizona Diamondbacks
      • Colorado Rockies
      • Los Angeles Dodgers
      • San Diego Padres
      • San Francisco Giants
  • About
    • MLB Trade Rumors
    • Tim Dierkes
    • Writing team
    • Advertise
    • Archives
  • Contact
  • Tools
    • 2023-24 MLB Free Agent List
    • 2024-25 MLB Free Agent List
    • Transaction Tracker
    • Arbitration Tracker
    • Agency Database
  • NBA/NFL/NHL
    • Hoops Rumors
    • Pro Football Rumors
    • Pro Hockey Rumors
  • App
  • Chats
Go To Pro Hockey Rumors
Go To Hoops Rumors

American League Injury Updates: Piscotty, Cobb, Keuchel, Pearson

By Jeff Todd | September 9, 2020 at 11:00pm CDT

Here are the latest updates on a few injury situations from around the American League …

  • The Athletics will go a few days without full participation from outfielder Stephen Piscotty, as Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle covers on Twitter. (He’s pinch running as we speak.) Thankfully, it seems there’s reason to hope he’ll bounce back quickly after receiving a cortisone shot to his balky wrist. Piscotty has turned in a useful but hardly world-beating .264/.308/.438 batting line on the season.
  • Orioles righty Alex Cobb is days away from a return, with outfielder Austin Hays seemingly not far behind, as skipper Brandon Hyde tells reporters including Roch Kubatko of MASNsports.com (Twitter link). Cobb’s absence is as yet not fully explained; the quick turnaround could indicate that he had to step away owing to coronavirus protocols. Regardless, it’s good news that he’s expected to jump right back into active duty.
  • The White Sox don’t appear overly concerned with the health status of lefty Dallas Keuchel. He’ll plan to miss a start after taking an early exit from his last outing due to lower back issues, but that’s expected to be the extent of the missed time, as Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times and others mentioned on Twitter. Keuchel has thus far justified the South Siders’ faith in signing him, running up 53 1/3 innings of 2.19 ERA ball.
  • Exciting young Blue Jays hurler Nate Pearson is likely not going to build back to a full starter’s role, skipper Charlie Montoyo told reporters including MLB.com’s Gregor Chisholm (Twitter links). That’s sensible for a variety of reasons. For one thing, there really isn’t much time to ramp him up. For another, it’s not clear that’d be the right role after Pearson ran into some early MLB struggles. The firmly contending Toronto outfit can certainly make use of Pearson in a relief role while still getting him valuable work at the game’s highest level.
Share 0 Retweet 3 Send via email0

Baltimore Orioles Chicago White Sox Oakland Athletics Toronto Blue Jays Alex Cobb Austin Hays Dallas Keuchel Nate Pearson Stephen Piscotty

60-Man Player Pool Additions: 9/9/20
Main
NL Injury Notes: Pham, Smyly, Turner, Pirates
View Comments (13)

Comments

  1. swarley

    3 years ago

    I like getting these injury updates in bulk, as opposed to the individual posts MLBTR puts out when someone goes to the IL (even though this post isn’t about IL placements). I understand this is a free site and more posts/clicks means ad revenue, but the run of posts gets to be a bit much sometimes.

    Reply
  2. itslonelyatthetrop

    3 years ago

    Hope Alex Cobb has a strong finish to the season.

    Reply
  3. the kutch

    3 years ago

    Wasn’t Piscotty second in the AL in RBI’s in the month of August ??

    Reply
  4. Coronavirusisfake

    3 years ago

    Nate’s not even the most famous Pearson in Toronto

    Reply
    • Jaysfan1981

      3 years ago

      Lester B. Passed a long time ago

      Reply
  5. ChiSox_Fan

    3 years ago

    Great news for Keuchel!

    Reply
  6. Fg-3

    3 years ago

    Yanks should have brought in Keuchel

    Reply
  7. clrrogers

    3 years ago

    So Pearson is the #8 prospect in all of baseball and after two rough outings (following a good debut), during at least one of which he was hurt, “It’s not clear that’d be the right role (starting)” for him? Really?

    Reply
    • Jaysfan1981

      3 years ago

      Mostly due to the lack of time remaining in the season, which won’t give him time to rebuild to 80-100 pitches per game. Not due to his lack of skill or the absurdly small sample size of 4 starts which you’re making it sound

      Reply
    • smuzqwpdmx

      3 years ago

      Well, if this were a normal year they might’ve left him starting in AAA most of the season (or not, who can say). The decision to promote him was partly because there’s nowhere else to properly develop him at the moment. So if there’s no need in the rotation, there’s an argument for developing him in a lower pressure role this month.

      But really it’s because he’d be a 3 or 4 inning starter at best at this point this year.

      Reply
  8. jessaumodesto

    3 years ago

    Man can you imagine the A’s when they get Pis back?!?

    Reply
    • DarkSide830

      3 years ago

      what’s amazing is if you look at their numbers, their offense and SP grade out in most ways as league average at best, but that pen is so darn good. only two starters with ERA under 5.00 but 2nd best ERA in the AL.

      Reply
      • Asfan0780

        3 years ago

        Their offense goes hot and cold, they struggle vs starters then feast on weak bullpens late in games. Starting pitching Manaea and fiers were terrible in start of season, then improved. Bassitt and montas were great great then hit a rough patch for a couple starts. Luzardo is still learning and was good vs depleted Astros team .

        Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Please login to leave a reply.
Log in Register

ad: 300x250_1_MLB

    Top Stories

    Brewers Designate Luke Voit For Assignment

    White Sox To Activate Liam Hendriks From Injured List

    Royals Release Hunter Dozier

    Yankees Release Aaron Hicks

    Brewers Sign Julio Teheran To Major League Deal

    Red Sox Move Corey Kluber To Bullpen

    Athletics Reach Tentative Stadium Funding Deal With Nevada Lawmakers

    NPB Watch: May Edition

    Yankees Designate Aaron Hicks For Assignment

    Cubs Designate Eric Hosmer For Assignment

    Mets Select Gary Sanchez, Place Tim Locastro On 60-Day IL

    Astros To Activate Jose Altuve

    Rays Recall Taj Bradley, Plan To Keep Him In Rotation

    Kumar Rocker To Undergo Tommy John Surgery

    Anibal Sanchez Announces Retirement

    Willson Contreras To Return To Catching Duties On Monday

    Rockies Place Antonio Senzatela On 15-Day IL Due To Elbow Sprain

    Cubs, Marcus Stroman Had Preliminary Extension Talks

    Drew Rasmussen Shut Down For Two Months With Flexor Strain

    Tyler Mahle To Undergo Tommy John Surgery

    Recent

    Padres Claim Gary Sanchez Off Waivers From Mets

    Submit Your Questions For The MLB Trade Rumors Podcast!

    Cedric Mullins Leaves Game Due To Right Abductor/Groin Injury

    White Sox Place Jimmy Lambert On 15-Day Injured List

    Rays Release Chris Muller

    Rays Place Pete Fairbanks On 15-Day Injured List

    Rockies Reinstate Ryan Rolison, Transfer Ryan Feltner To 60-Day IL

    A’s Designate Jesus Aguilar For Assignment

    Brewers Designate Luke Voit For Assignment

    Lance McCullers Jr. No Longer Throwing Off Mound

    ad: 300x250_5_side_mlb

    MLBTR Newsletter - Hot stove highlights in your inbox, five days a week

    Latest Rumors & News

    Latest Rumors & News

    • Shohei Ohtani Rumors
    Trade Rumors App for iOS and Android

    MLBTR Features

    MLBTR Features

    • Go Ad-Free
    • 2023-24 MLB Free Agent List
    • 2024-25 MLB Free Agent List
    • MLB Player Chats
    • Transaction Tracker
    • Extension Tracker
    • Agency Database
    • MLBTR On Twitter
    • MLBTR On Facebook
    • Team Facebook Pages
    • How To Set Up Notifications For Breaking News
    • Hoops Rumors
    • Pro Football Rumors
    • Pro Hockey Rumors

    Rumors By Team

    • Angels Rumors
    • Astros Rumors
    • Athletics Rumors
    • Blue Jays Rumors
    • Braves Rumors
    • Brewers Rumors
    • Cardinals Rumors
    • Cubs Rumors
    • Diamondbacks Rumors
    • Dodgers Rumors
    • Giants Rumors
    • Guardians Rumors
    • Mariners Rumors
    • Marlins Rumors
    • Mets Rumors
    • Nationals Rumors
    • Orioles Rumors
    • Padres Rumors
    • Phillies Rumors
    • Pirates Rumors
    • Rangers Rumors
    • Rays Rumors
    • Red Sox Rumors
    • Reds Rumors
    • Rockies Rumors
    • Royals Rumors
    • Tigers Rumors
    • Twins Rumors
    • White Sox Rumors
    • Yankees Rumors

    ad: 160x600_MLB

    Navigation

    • Sitemap
    • Archives
    • Feeds by Team

    MLBTR INFO

    • Advertise
    • About
    • Commenting Policy
    • Privacy Policy

    Connect

    • Contact Us
    • Twitter
    • Facebook
    • RSS Feed

    MLB Trade Rumors is not affiliated with Major League Baseball, MLB or MLB.com

    hide arrowsFOX Sports Engage Network scroll to top
    Close

    Desktop Version | Switch To Mobile Version