As injury news continues to dominate baseball, here’s the latest on a few players who are returning to action…
- The Mariners reinstated outfielder Jake Fraley from the 10-day injured list, with infielder Eric Campbell heading to Triple-A to make room for Fraley on the active roster. Fraley has been on the IL since suffering a left hamstring strain while making a diving catch in Seattle’s 10-4 loss to the White Sox on April 6. He has seen action at all three outfield positions during his 24-game MLB career, and he’ll provide the Mariners with some depth behind the regular outfield trio of Kyle Lewis, Mitch Haniger, and Jarred Kelenic.
- The Brewers announced that utilityman Tim Lopes and right-hander Bobby Wahl were optioned to Triple-A after being reinstated from the 60-day IL. Both players have been sidelined by oblique strains suffered during Spring Training. Lopes is still looking to make his Brewers debut after being claimed off waivers from the Mariners back in December. Wahl has appeared in parts of three MLB seasons with the A’s, Mets, and Brewers, tossing 2 1/3 innings for Milwaukee in 2020 after missing the entire 2019 campaign recovering from a torn ACL.
Every day I come here praying and hoping that Rafeal Montero is on here because he’s been sent down or released. And Scott Servais continues to put the guy in games that are tied or were in the lead. The dude doesn’t know how to pitch a scoreless inning anymore. I ran into Middleton at Sean Kemp cannabis yesterday and asked him what’s up with Montero always in instead of him late in games and he looked at me and said no comment and chuckled. That told me I’m not alone on the confusion of why he continued to get put in in big spots. This guy is from the school of Fernando Rodney but doesn’t know how to get out of the jams
That’s deep.
Lol you’re telling us you ran into Middleton at a drug store? Lhahahahahhahahah
Yup. I was about to walk out the store and hes standing there at the ATM pulling out his money.
Montero- while I can see some resemblance to F Rodney I must say Montero has been terribly unlucky. Plus he’s had 2 saves in the last 4 outings with a 2.57 ERA over the last 2 weeks. A lot like YK last 2 yrs he’s also had many bloopers and end of the bat/seeing eye sgl’s, defensive errors and Umps squeezing his K-zone because his pitches come in w so much lateral movement to them. Opposing hitters have had such weak contact their xBA is really low.
Don’t get me wrong, he’s had plenty of outings where he quickly gets to two outs or two strikes then becomes almost a different pitcher who’s stuff and confidence suddenly leaves him. I just think many of his critics fail to address the amount of bad luck in his outings.
He has been Monterrible.
Did You Know When Montero came up with the Mets that he, and NOT deGROM was Considered The Top Arm ….
Nice to see “Soup” made it back to The Show. Hope he gets another shot later in the year.