4:34pm: Gausman is dealing with side effects from the vaccine, Slusser tweets.
3:54pm: The Giants have placed right-hander Kevin Gausman on the injured list and recalled catcher Joey Bart, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to report. The team didn’t provide a reason for Gausman’s IL placement.
Gausman, a former Oriole, Red and Brave who signed with the Giants prior to 2020, has emerged as an immensely important part of San Francisco’s rotation over the past season-plus. He was impressive enough last year for the Giants to put an $18.9MM qualifying offer on the table, which Gausman accepted instead of taking another trip to free agency during the winter.
Gausman has continued to roll in Year 2 as a Giant, which could set him up to receive a lucrative multiyear payday in the coming months. So far this season, Gausman has thrown 39 2/3 innings of 2.04 ERA ball with a 25.8 percent strikeout rate and a 7.1 percent walk rate. He has been one of the leaders of a Giants starting staff that entered Tuesday No. 1 in the majors in ERA (2.34) and second in fWAR (3.8). The work of Gausman & Co. has helped lead to a surprising 17-11 start for San Francisco, owner of a one-game lead in the National League West.
Bart, the second overall pick in the 2018 draft, made his debut as a much-ballyhooed prospect last year. The 24-year-old put up a weak .233/.288/.320 line with no home runs in 111 plate appearances as a rookie, and he hasn’t appeared in the bigs yet this season. The Giants have received otherworldly production behind the plate from a resurgent Buster Posey, who sat out last year because of COVID-19 concerns, though backup Curt Casali has posted woeful offensive numbers thus far. Casali has, however, garnered rave reviews for his defense.
Probably the COVID vaccine shot. Considering they called up an offensive player
giants are playing a double header in CO today so makes sense to bring a catcher up
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Huge blow but it’s finally Joey Bart szn
dodgers will smith is way ahead of bart
yes of course he is ahead, he was drafted in 2016 and bart was drafted in 2018, smith had a normal development bart out of necessity went from A ball to the mlb roster
giants buster posey is way ahead of will smith
hahaha
Bart Train!
Weird. He looked pretty healthy in his last start against the Padres.
True, but you could toss Spongebob Squarepants out there and he’d pitch well against the punchless Padres right now
Eh idk
Second vaccine side effects- only a couple days
No long term studies
Maybe something that requires thoughts and prayers for recovery from shouldn’t be compulsory and should be studied more idk I’m not a scientist but neither is bill gates
it just doesn’t stop man
Super over rated pitcher
this season he is tied in WAR wit people like kershaw and glasnow – a tick behind degrom, and is 10th in ERA right behind teammate desclafani – so if anything he is underrated
I’d gladly take Gausman’s “over-rated” stats thus far in 2021.
Super weak take
Overrated** and he is not.. overrated. Dude is a stud.
@bravesiowafan
Hey, just because the guy wasn’t good for us doesn’t mean he hasn’t turned a corner. I’d be thrilled with that type of production right now.
Over? His ERA for these two seasons is quite a bit over league average.
Just comeback for the Padres series this weekend. Need Gausman to pitch well again against the Padres.
I don’t get calling up Bart at all, the kid needs at minimum another probably full season at AAA working on the hole in his swing, and calling games at the (almost) Major League level. Calling him up, and keeping him from playing full games in the minors just makes it that much longer until he is ready. Sitting next to Posey will only get him so much experience, he needs the game time action.
Agreed