The Astros have placed outfielder Michael Brantley on the 10-day injured list with right hamstring tightness and recalled infielder Robel Garcia, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com tweets.
Houston will temporarily lose one of its best hitters in Brantley, who’s in his third year with the team. Brantley was a free agent in the offseason, but the Astros brought him back on a two-year, $32MM contract after he posted outstanding production in his first two seasons with the team. This season has been more of the same for Brantley, who has batted .305/.346/.455 (128 wRC+) with three home runs in 179 plate appearances.
Brantley – a former Indian who has dealt with various injuries throughout his career – has already missed eight of Houston’s 49 games this year, and he’ll add to that total now that he’s on the IL. The 34-year-old has spent the vast majority of his season in left field, though he hasn’t started there since May 22, and he hasn’t been in the Astros’ lineup since the 23rd. When Brantley hasn’t been available to man left, the Astros have used Aledmys Diaz and Chas McCormick.
A member of the All-IL team.
And all star if healthy
I like that All-IL team. With his average of under 100 games played per season he’s definitely on that team. Byron Buxton is and will always be the man on that team though.
Stanton is the team’s DH.
Starting rotation:
Syndergaard
Soroka
Clevinger
Paxton
Team captain: Strasburg
Springer
Strasburg is back… replaced by Carrasco
Wow… Mr. Moneyball’s daughter was killed in a car accident! Just read it on the NY Post website.
I know it’s not team related, but you would think if this site wants to go by only sabermetrics and algorithms that it would at least mention this and offer their condolences, thoughts and prayers.
RIP to the young lady.
Sad, my condolences.
with all due respect, this site isnt a memorial site. usually they just mention HoFers.
Sucks for the family, but Michael Lewis didn’t even play baseball. It is pretty far removed from the point of MLBTR to have an article about the death of a the daughter of an author who once wrote a book about baseball.
But if taking a shot at the website you spend a lot of time on just to score some sort of virtue points is your way of grieving, then by all means continue.
Thank you Brother Steve. It’s good to know somebody else was impacted as deeply as I.
What, did you get muted too much so you had to make another account?
Also rough that Brantley is out, Houston was doing well early on. Looked better than the A’s in my opinion in the west
The sale of pills is at an all time high /
Young people walking around with their heads in the sky /
The cities ablaze in the summer time /
& the beat goes on
So… this story is about an injury that occurred to a MLB player. Why is anyone talking about someone that died. Maybe I missed a joke, but judging by the comments alone. Not sure how those kinda comments relate to this content.
Definition of a professional hitter. Get well soon Michael. We need you back