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Phillies Place Spencer Howard On Injured List

By Mark Polishuk | September 13, 2020 at 10:34am CDT

SEPTEMBER 13: The Phillies are placing Howard on the 10-day injured list, the club announced. Reliever Connor Brogdon is up from the alternate site to replace Howard on the active roster. Additionally, right-hander Ramón Rosso has been added to the roster as the 29th man for today’s doubleheader against the Marlins. He’ll get the start in the first game of the twin bill.

SEPTEMBER 12: Phillies right-hander Spencer Howard left tonight’s game in the fourth inning due to stiffness in his throwing shoulder, the team announced.  Howard had just allowed a three-run homer to the Marlins’ Brian Anderson before being visited on the mound by manager Joe Girardi and a team trainer before departing the game.

Any sort of arm problem for a pitcher obviously isn’t good news, and a shoulder issue is of particular concern in Howard’s case — as The Athletic’s Meghan Montemurro pointed out, a similar injury caused Howard to miss two months of the 2019 season.  If the problem here is truly just stiffness or discomfort, it’s possible Howard could be back after just a missed start or perhaps an extra day or two of rest, but naturally the Phillies will be as cautious as possible in making sure the star prospect is healthy.

Saturday’s abbreviated outing has been indicative of Howard’s struggles over his first taste of the majors, as the righty took a 5.66 ERA into tonight’s start against Miami.  Howard had a 2.25 K/BB rate and 7.8 K/9 over his first 20 2/3 innings, with his BABIP (.343) and xwOBA (.334, compared to a .380 wOBA) indicating at least some bad luck.  Anderson’s home run tonight, however, was already the sixth long ball surrendered by Howard this season, and he has been hit hard in his second or third times through opposing lineups.

Howard’s prospect pedigree notwithstanding, it isn’t unexpected that a 24-year-old rookie who had never pitched above Double-A ball would have some struggles in his first MLB season.  If Howard has to miss time, however, it leaves the Phillies short an arm in the midst of a stretch of 18 games in 14 days.  Aaron Nola and Zack Wheeler have been carrying an otherwise shaky Philadelphia rotation, though Wheeler may be questionable to make his next start due to a nasty fingernail injury.

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  1. shanefalco50

    5 years ago

    Pitching injuries are a plague on baseball…..(this one to Wheeler doesn’t count)….everyone has the same problems…….perhaps a major rethink by baseball as a whole is in order. There is too much emphasis on power speed (93+ mph) pitches and arm wrecking breaking shiiit. Plus the pitch count thingy never gives a pitcher the ability to build up the arm strength necessary to consistently go deep into games. Remember the 60’s-80’s? Complete games were a measure of a starters ability…….not if he could hit 95 on the gun in the seventh inning…….pitching to spots was more important than breaking a two-foot curve into the dirt and getting someone to chase it. The approach and philosophy to pitching was different. Time for a change to meld the old with the new.

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  2. DarkSide830

    5 years ago

    i would just shut him down at this point. he probably wasnt ready for the Majors yet anyway, and id rather them not compromise his long term health.

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    • VonPurpleHayes

      5 years ago

      Agreed. Vinny V will have to be a full-time starter again. It’s not going to be pretty, but Spencer will be valuable in the future.

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      • DarkSide830

        5 years ago

        honestly id even consider going off the rails and suggesting stretching out Romero and using the two as tandem guys. maybe shoot for 3 innings out of each or even just 5-6 total off the bat.

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          5 years ago

          The bullpen is so pathetic, they can’t afford to take Romero out of there.

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        • DarkSide830

          5 years ago

          Romero throwing more innings means they need the pen less.

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        • VonPurpleHayes

          5 years ago

          Not necessarily as Romero would only pitch 1 out of every 5 games. I look towards the Mets who made Lugo a starter, decreasing the value of their pen.

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  3. chippahawk

    5 years ago

    From football drama to no future home plate umps to pitching machines in the future, whoever said change is for the better should go back to school.

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  4. DarkSide830

    5 years ago

    hopefully Rosso is a bit more ready now. im anxious to see what he can do going forward.

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  5. jhiphop

    5 years ago

    Bring up Medina! See what he’s got. He’ll be 24 before the year is out.

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    • DarkSide830

      5 years ago

      he also posted a RA/9 near 6.00 for Reading last year. not sure he’s nearly ready yet.

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