MAY 14: The Phillies announced that they have reinstated Realmuto and optioned righty Enyel De Los Santos to Triple-A.
MAY 13: 10:40am: Realmuto did not test positive, manager Joe Girardi tells reporters (link via Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philadelphia). He developed a fever and grew ill last night, however, so the Phils have moved him to the Covid list to perform testing. He is not traveling with the team at the moment.
10:10am: The Phillies announced this morning that catcher J.T. Realmuto has been placed on the Covid-19-related injured list. Fellow catcher Rafael Marchan is up from Triple-A Lehigh Valley to take his spot on the active roster for the time being.
The team did not indicate at this time whether Realmuto has tested positive or is on the Covid list as a close contact or for contact-tracing purposes. In the event of a positive test, he’d be away from the club for a minimum of 10 days.
Realmuto, 30, is out to the finest start of his career in 2021, slashing a robust .314/.418/.520 with four homers, seven doubles, a triple and three steals through his first 33 games. That excellent production comes despite suffering a fractured thumb that cost him much of Spring Training. Recently, Realmuto has missed a couple games due to a minor knee injury, though the expectation had been that he’d avoid the IL for that particular issue.
With Realmuto sidelined for a yet-to-be-determined period of time, the Phillies will turn catching duties over to Andrew Knapp and the aforementioned Marchan. That pairing certainly can’t be expected to replicate Realmuto’s contributions at the plate — few catchers could — but Knapp did turn in a .278/.404/.444 line through 89 plate appearances last year. He’s out to a much slower start in 2021, however, and is an overall .228/.332/.345 hitter in 712 Major League plate appearances. The 22-year-old Marchan is one of the organization’s top prospects and is out to a .250/.429/.313 start through 21 plate appearances in Triple-A. He went 4-for-8 with a homer and a walk in a brief MLB debut effort last summer.
He had a bruised knee. Good time to get the vaccine. Could be as simple as that.
I was thinking the same thing
Thank you Johnny Superscout
Oh……….JT has the flu?
maybe hes taking time off to drive around Philly to stock up on gas
That’s what happens when you disable the keystone xl pipeline by executive order. 87 unleaded is already up in my area 80 cents a gallon since 4 months ago.
Oh jfc, shut up.
@Fred,
Please stick to baseball. To quote the great Ben Stern, “Don’t be stupid, you moron.”
Everyone here should just stick to baseball. That’s what the site is about. That being said, anyone with a basic understanding of economics knows the keystone pipeline closing has VERY VERY LITTLE to nothing to do with the gas increases.
This board is now a safe haven for people to post their false narratives and uninformed thoughts on any number of topics, as if there wasn’t already endless opportunity for that elsewhere on the internet..
Agreed. Wait until the Area 51 people find this site. It’ll be all UFOs, and bye bye barrel rate, launch angle, and exit velocity.
including your “false narratives”
Stick to baseball! As I go on to express my non baseball opinion.
Big Dust,
Please stick to baseball. Your second sentence ventured off course a bit. Thanks!
you ain’t doing the Crime Dog any favors with your nonsense.
Just let them play good gosh.
we’re going to get into trouble for fudging the Covid IL soon
There has certainly been a lot of manipulation going on. I bet you Realmuto plays next series.
i wouldnt be surprised if he’s starting the 1st game of the next series, and would expect him to start one.
and he’s starting first game. lol
You better believe it.
Too bad. It is nice to see the rare occurrence of a player with a big contract who is actually playing well. I hope he is back soon. Keep him healthy.
@JerryBird Philly’s have 3 big contracts that are working really well so far. Harper, Wheeler and Realmuto. Their problem is that the homegrown talent isn’t doing well. With Herrera coming around, things are looking up though.
You notice How nobody seems to get AIDS anymore? That’s good, but strange
COVID IL doesn’t mean anyone caught COVID. 37 million people worldwide are living with AIDs right now, so it’s still fairly prevalent, but there are much more treatments for HIV and AIDs. The more you know.
Still much less prevalent than a sprained ankle
This is true
Dude watch comedy central lol
This seems like an obvious case of exploiting the COVID injury list to add a roster spot. Maybe he’s taking the time to get the vaccine since he was already expected to miss a few games, but my guess is they are simply pretending he has symptoms or has been in close contact to add another player for a game or 2. It’s not likely the first instance of this happening, but it does seem like the most blatant.
@bamck Yea. The Phillies have been manipulating this thing all year.
If they are Von, rest assured, they are not the only ones.
3 catchers on the roster… hm…
If ROB RAMSEY and BRIAN CRAIL happen to run by this post…FB disabled my account for no reason. I can’t even get into the site anymore…even with a new account because those get disabled too.