Before this evening’s win over the Brewers, the Phillies placed outfielders Roman Quinn and Matt Joyce on the 10-day injured list. Quinn has a laceration on his right index finger, while Joyce suffered a right calf strain. In corresponding moves, outfielder Mickey Moniak and utilityman Scott Kingery were recalled from Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
The Joyce and Quinn injuries further thin a Phillies’ outfield that already looked to be in a difficult spot. Right fielder Bryce Harper has been incredible in the season’s early going, but he’s nursing a left wrist injury. The Phils are hopeful he won’t need to go on the IL, but utilityman Brad Miller got the nod at the position tonight. Andrew McCutchen is off to a bit of a rough start in left, while center field has been a train wreck.
Philadelphia has gotten a combined .112/.194/.194 line from their center fielders, by far the worst production in the league. Each of Quinn, Moniak, Adam Haseley and Odúbel Herrera have gotten off to bad starts. Haseley has been away from the team for a few weeks for personal reasons, and now Quinn’s on the shelf due to injury. That leaves the Phils with Herrera, Moniak and Kingery as options at the position, with Kingery coming off a dismal 2020 season. Nick Maton might get a look eventually, but the Phillies are currently using him to hold down second base while Jean Segura works back from an injury of his own.
Joyce has worked primarily as a pinch hitter, although he’s gotten some sporadic corner outfield time as well. The veteran left-handed hitter slashed a decent .252/.351/.331 over 148 plate appearances with the Marlins last season, although he hasn’t produced much in the early going this year.
Quinn has been terrible until recently finding his groove and then…another injury. Poor dude can’t catch a break unless it’s a bone break.
that’s about Quinn in a nutshell
Put a package together and go get JaCoby Jones…Detroit seems ready to move on from him…
ew…
A package of what…scuffed balls and cracked bats?
Stop the homer nonsense about Jacoby Jones…no matter how much you lift him up he will NEVER be Craig Paquette.
Jones would look like Mantle compared to everyone else we’ve run out there this season…
Tigers beat the Red Sox.
Tens of thousands partying on Woodward Avenue!
Maybe give Doug Granville a call.
Maybe give Doug Granville a call.
Puig a. Free agent?
He’s playing in the Mexican League
“Scott Kingery, he’s going to be so so good soon” . They’ve been saying that for 4 years now
Hes a year away from being a year away at this point.
Dude turned into a pumpkin the moment he signed that extension.