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Giants To Place Aaron Sanchez On 10-Day Injured List

By TC Zencka | May 8, 2021 at 1:44pm CDT

The Giants will place starter Aaron Sanchez on the 10-day injured list because of right biceps tightness, per MLB.com’s Maria I. Guardado (via Twitter).

Once again, that means that Logan Webb will remain in the rotation. The Giants have been on the verge of shifting Webb to the bullpen on numerous occasions this season, but each time he’s been granted a reprieve. Alex Wood’s activation off the injured list would have sent Webb to the pen, but Johnny Cueto went down. Now that Cueto is set to return to the rotation tomorrow, Sanchez’s injury will again delay the Giants’ ability to try out Webb as a multi-inning reliever. Webb has a 5.34 ERA/3.74 FIP in 32 innings this season while excelling at burning worms with a 59.3 percent groundball rate.

Sanchez, for his part, has the makings of a comeback-type season. Through six starts, the 28-year-old righty has a 3.18 ERA/3.79 FIP across 28 1/3 innings. Like Webb, he’s done a tremendous job of keeping the ball on the ground with a 56 percent groundball rate that mirrors the type of numbers he put up early in his career with Toronto.

For the time being, then, Webb will stay in the rotation with Anthony DeSclafani and Alex Wood, while Johnny Cueto and Kevin Gausman will be welcomed back into the fold to round of their starting five.

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  1. Buzz Saw

    1 year ago

    Burning worms. LOL.

    Reply
  2. Dorothy_Mantooth

    1 year ago

    Sanchez just can’t stay off of the IL. The kid has all the talent in the world but his body keeps letting him down. Hopefully he’s able to come
    back from this injury quickly but he doesn’t have a good track record of bouncing back from the IL. The Giants really need him to make at least 25 starts this year if they hope to compete for a playoff spot.

    Reply
    • macdaddy96

      1 year ago

      His placement on the IL is more of getting him the 10 days rest then it is him actually being injured.

      Reply
      • Nevrfolow

        1 year ago

        Agreed, Farhan did this in LA. Easy way to manipulate the roster and get starters rest with missing just a game.

        Reply
        • VTGiant

          1 year ago

          Yep, Farhan has been rolling 7’s so far this season… I know it’s EARLY, but the Giants are proving to be a DANGEROUS team so far. The old Guard, Belt, Crawford, Posey are clutch to date.

    • antibelt

      1 year ago

      He was the one we were least relying on. He’s barely pitched the last three season. If him and wood can combine for 240 innings or so, then we’ll be in fine shape.

      Reply
    • Steven96

      1 year ago

      I disagree Dorothy, it would be great if he were healthy but I don’t think your < 25 starts for playoffs is precise

      Reply
  3. Dorothy_Mantooth

    1 year ago

    Does anyone know how ground ball percentage is calculated? Is it calculated off of all balls put in play or is calculated off of all batters faced? For example, if he has a 60% ground ball rate and strikes out 20% of the batters he faces, is his fly ball percentage 20% or is it 40%? Inquiring minds want to know.

    Reply
    • Nevrfolow

      1 year ago

      I think Its based off of all balls put in play that result in an out, hit or error. So not including non out foul balls.

      So say a pitcher faces 10 guys. He strikes out 2 then of the other 8 guys- 4 ground out 3 pop up and 1 line out. Ground ball rate would be 4/8 so 50 %

      Reply
  4. geg42

    1 year ago

    The series of injuries to starting pitching is when I have severely limited expectations for the Giants despite their early success. Signing multiple “buy-low” type pitchers naturally carries higher injury risk. The performances have been excellent but health will be uncertain with most of this group.

    Reply
    • Baseball 1600

      1 year ago

      I think the fact that they’re 19-13 despite all of the injuries they’ve had says a lot about the depth Farhan has built, you act like they’ve been fully healthy all season but they’ve actually been affected by more injuries than most teams on both fronts and still persevered.

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      • WereAllJustGuestsHere

        1 year ago

        Stop with the “Farhan” built. Harris is your GM. This offseason was his doing. Many of the key pieces contributing are still Evans’ guys. Farhan has little to do with what’s happening on the field except for the hiring of Harris.

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        • Baseball 1600

          1 year ago

          Such a bad take lol. Farhan is the president of baseball ops. He has the most influence on guys hired, even though Harris is the GM. Did people not credit Theo Epstein with the Cubs success in the middle of the 2010s? He had the same title that Farhan has now.

        • Baseball 1600

          1 year ago

          “Many of the key guys still contributing are Evans guys” Wrong. The only guys from the Evans era making considerable contribution are Evan Longoria and Johnny Cueto. The more correct statement would be that many of the key guys contributing are Sabeans guys, and even then, Crawford and Posey are the only standouts from that group. All the SPs contributing are Farhan guys.

        • antibelt

          1 year ago

          Gausman, Descalfani, Sanchez, Wood, Rogers, Yaz, Solano, etc. I wasn’t a fan of Farhan at all when he was hired, but he’s been picking up bargains while building the minors back up.

        • antibelt

          1 year ago

          The Brandons have been playing great since the beginning of 2020. New coaching staff has helped their approach at the plate. Don’t be surprised when they are resigned to allow Luciano and Watt to continue to develop.

        • hopper15

          1 year ago

          WereAllJustGuestsHere – Who do you think it was that hired Scott Harris? smh

  5. Baseball 1600

    1 year ago

    His velocity has been down all year. He’s still been great without the usual velo, it’s been said it’s intentional to get him to throw more strikes but I wonder if he was slightly injured, because in his showcase prior to ST he was hitting 97 and as soon as he showed up to camp he sat low 90s

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    • Sadler

      1 year ago

      He hasn’t been fully healthy all season. Both he and Kapler have publicly said it and is why he hadn’t been allowed to go more than about 80 pitches.

      I think they were hoping he would get stronger by now but with Cueto coming back from the IL and Webb being a good enough replacement, I think they’re hoping rest will work better.

      Reply
      • Pete'sView

        1 year ago

        Webb, unfortunately, has been a barely good enough replacement. When is this kid gonna put it together? Still, the starting rotation has already out-distanced ny expectations. Farhan has done it again!

        Reply
        • tad2b13

          1 year ago

          Pete’sView:

          Yeah, I agree. I find watching Webb’s games frustrating.

          I don’t know how many times he’s goes from 0-2 to 3-2, but it seems like a lot. It’s like once he gets ahead in the count, he tries to get the batter to chase. Only those pitches are usually easy takes.

          If he wants guys to swing at pitches outside the zone they need to be more enticing. And, I’m sure if I’m aware of that, then so are the opposing hitters.

          I don’t know if it’s mental, lack of experience, or if he just doesn’t have the control, but I have a hard time watching when he pitches. Especially after watching Alex Wood pitch, and how refreshing that is.

  6. crshbng

    1 year ago

    Just glad its not blisters, he has had trouble with them

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