The A’s have placed Mike Fiers on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right elbow, per the team. The move is retroactive to May 7th. This will be Fiers second stint on the injured list this season. The right-hander has been tagged for eight earned runs in just 9 1/3 innings across two starts. He has given up 15 hits while walking four and allowing four home runs.
Burch Smith has been reinstated from the injured list to take Fiers’ place on the roster. The 31-year-old right-hander will go back to the bullpen where he has logged three innings through a pair of relief appearances this season. He allowed one earned run on three hits with a walk and a strikeout.
The A’s now have three potential rotation arms on the injured list in Fiers, Jesus Luzardo and A.J. Puk.Daulton Jefferies, Grant Holmes, or James Kaprielian could be called upon to join the big league rotation in the next couple of days. All three are on the 40-man roster, though none of the three have significant experience at the Major League level. The A’s have a day off on Monday, so Oakland could push Fiers’ spot in the rotation until as late as Wednesday.
They play the Astros in 10 games, so I expect that this will be longer than a 10-day IL stint. Coward.
I was just thinking, they must be playing Houston soon.
I’m TOTALLY sure thats why a contending team who’s already down 2 starters is putting a third on the injury list….
Do you think before you post?
Oh, please. There is an established pattern of the A’s putting Fiers on the IL list prior to playing the Astros. You’d have to be absolutely brain dead to refuse to acknowledge this correlation.
Their little spending spree adurong off-season hasn’t gone great. Andrus terrible, Rosenthal, fiers injured. Romo hasn’t been good thus far. Only signing that had been good is Petit. Lowrie has been great too. Their rotation depth is a bit iffy now with no fiers, lizards. Also puk, Jefferies injured too
I’m surprised Fiers hasn’t sprained his neck from constantly having to quickly turn around and watch the ball disappear over the fence.
lol he used his right arm to sling a gatorade cooler over seth brown last night. injury must’ve happened then lmao
So not only are we seeing the trend of many more IL placements so far this year than any other, it seems like half the players who are activated end up right back on the IL within a few days with an unrelated injury.
This is only because he (maybe the A’s) doesn’t want to face Houston.
Cole Irvin has been their best starter.
Acquired for cash. Billionaire John fisher must’ve found pennies in his couch cushions
Is Fiers getting stitches, asking for a friend