The Pirates have placed outfielder Gregory Polanco on the injured list and selected outfielder/infielder Hunter Owen, the team announced. The club didn’t give a reason for Polanco’s IL placement.
Polanco entered this season hoping to bounce back from two straight unproductive years, but it hasn’t happened yet. Dating back to 2019, Polanco has batted an unsightly .197/.263/.369 over 431 trips to the plate, including 90 PA of .200/.289/.350 hitting this season. Phillip Evans could handle most of the work in right field during Polanco’s absence.
This is the first big league promotion for Owen, a 25th-round pick in 2016 who worked his way to the Triple-A level in 2019. Owen struggled during his debut there, but he has performed well in the minors overall. The 27-year-old owns a .266/.341/.473 line with 55 home runs in 1,425 PA.
More players missing time from the”vaccine” than the actual flu itself! The irony!
Go ahead report me, mute me, IDGAF!
You’re acting like they’re done for a season vs a few days and basically blaming everyone else for you being a goofy head.
Too bad there wasn’t a tuberculosis vaccine back in 1899, huh Arthur?
Don’t much care, I wasn’t alive.
I guess you didn’t get that far in the game.
A vaccine for a real disease and one for a hoax are two different things.
FYI trump lost and got the vaccine
How can you call the vaccine a cure for a hoax when Trump wants credit for the vaccine? That doesn’t sound like conflicting reasoning to you?
Tell that to the people in India and Brazil.
How does India and Brazil reflect on my point? Trump is claiming credit for a vaccine to a virus that is a hoax.
#maricopa
People believe its a hoax because when it first hit someone predicted 2 million people would die.
Low and behold
Govenors put covid patients in nursing homes, mass genocide of the elderly
Social distancing and mask mandates weren’t enforced during 2020 protests and riots, covid spread nobody cared
Entertainment industry was called “essentual” business
Closing small businesses only funneled everyone into big box stores spreading covid more
Making rules like take mask off in public when sitting down wasn’t scientific
Politicians routinely violated their own mandates
For something that was billed as the next ebola outbreak, recommendations and mandates actually increased covid cases
@I beg to differ. Can you answer my question if you believe the pandemic was a hoax? Why did Trump insist on credit for the vaccine if Covid was a hoax? For Retrumplicans, this should be a question that needs an answer. If Trump believes in the vaccine than shouldn’t his followers also?
I dont believe it was a hoax.
Covid is real.
The seriousness or deadliness of covid. That’s debatable. Depends who you ask. People 55+ have different answers and experiences than 18-40. Many factors weigh in like overall health and such.
A 74 year old man getting a vaccine doesn’t mean an 18 19 20 year old in good health must get the vaccine. Its up to the individual if they want to or not. Just like flu season.
@SalaryCapMyth
I wasn’t replying to you.
Unfortunately, the MLBTR comments thread format is very poor. with regard to which comment was replied to by whom at what time.
@Terrior..ya, I can see that now. I probably should have been a little more discerning.
@I beg to differ. Okay. If covid is no more concerning than the flu, my question actually still stands. It just has to be stated a little differently. We put out flu vaccines every year. No President demands credit for flu vaccines. Are you saying Trump demanded credit for a vaccine that was no worse than the flu? His Operation Warp Speed and then his demand for credit of the vaccine (even after his election loss) it created seems like he was taking it more serious than just another flu.
No president demands credit because the flu vaccine originated in 1912 and research expanded in the 1930s with the first testers being the military in the 1940s.
Also
After passage of the 1938 Act, the FDA began to designate certain drugs as safe for use only under the supervision of a medical professional, and the category of “prescription-only” drugs was securely codified into law by the 1951
So the flu vaccine development wasn’t government funded and didn’t have government regulations in the way like a covid vaccine did.
Not sure why you’re trying to compare the vaccines.
Far as why is trump taking credit?
I’d take credit too if msm told people it’d be years, at best early to mid 2021 before a vaccine was ready.
Just to clarify by government funded I mean trump prepaid for vaccines for the public. 100 million doses or something to that effect. I’d have to look up the total number of vaccines he paid for.
The military in the 40s paid to develop flu vaccines for the military during WW2.
I read your statement as though you are answering a different question because it doesn’t sound like you are answering mine. Why should Trump demand credit for a vaccine to a virus no more dangerous than the common flu? Obama, Clinton, Bush and Reagan never did? Why after the 2020 election would he continue too? It’s just a flu, right?
Why should trump demand credit
1. Paid for vaccines for the public
2. Cut regulations to get vaccines out to the public faster than the media was telling people they’d be ready for public use.
I dont remember Obama, Clinton, Bush funding experimental flu vaccines for public use or cutting red tape to get treatment to people faster.
You seem caught up on this covid = flu idea
I never claimed covid = flu.
I did say people should have a right to decide if they want a covid vaccine. Just like they’ve had the right to get a flu vaccine every year before covid. Right to choose.
So not sure why you’re trying to imply I said covid = flu.
I also said covid affects different people, different ages, different health statuses differently.
Ok I think I follow. Trump who has called the virus a hoax is now claiming credit for the vaccine and also got vaccinated
I don’t know what to believe . Biden letting groves of people across the border! Things most not be to serious .
This comment chain is gonna be the reason we can’t have nice things
Hmmmm….vaccine surplus….chip shortage….COINCIDENCE!!!!!! They are out to get you. Control your mind into believing the election wasn’t fixed. Weaken you so wolf men and lizard people can finally take over. Trick you into working harder and give in to socialism. Kill all the babies and the ones that do survive are forced into the Democrat controlled pedo rings controlled by the Clinton family. Don’t do it, they are out to get us!!!! This satirical comment brought to you by the extreme middle who thinks both sides of politics should stop being so stupid and trying to ruin our country and comment on baseball which is the most democratic thing in our country. Art, you are a clown.
1: the reason is because the MLB has set so many great guidelines for players and teams to follow to ensure that no one actually gets COVID.
2. your spacing in the quotes is wrong (just would like to comment on that not being a grammar Nazi)
3. the vaccine has rough side affects but its better than the disease which sidelined one of the strongest people I know for at least a week after a positive test.
4. grow up and stop making a baseball website that people come to enjoy their time into a political gambit.
@I beg to differ. All our comments are deleted (which I understand) catch ya another time, my friend.
Polanco likely placed on IL for ‘Chronic Crappiness’
Must be retroactive to 2018
The wrong Hunter Owen is linked
Row-no it’s not.
The Pirates are hurting for outfielders so much that they are promoting a 19 year old relief pitcher who weighs 225 pounds to play centerfield.They purchased him from Vanderbilt.
He probably won’t work out well,but they figure that he cannot be any worse than the ones that they have already tried.
Evidently centerfield is a sore spot for both Pennsylvania teams.
Your butts a sore spot you troll
The Pirates’ playoff chances just took a HUGE hit.
OTOH, they may have increased.
The really strange thing is that Polly has looked quite athletic so far this season. His bat seems to be coming around a bit after an awful start, while he’s running the bases like he did as a prospect.
Unfortunately, his throwing arm is totally gone after shoulder surgery, but please don’t tell that to the scouts while he’s still the Buccos preferred everyday RF!
If every opposing player knows his arm is toast and runs at will when the ball is hit to him then surely the scouts do. I’ve come to embrace the idea that Polanco is untradeable and as Pirates fans we just gotta ride out this last season with him then Nutting will buyout his option years.
Polanco is done.That leg injury suffered on a very awkward slide has done him in.He will have a hard time getting even a minor league deal next year.
I think Polanco lied on his birth certificate and is really 42 years old
Polanco sucks
You people are clueless uninformed trolls
Ghost-Stay dead.You are completely useless to this site.You add absolutely nothing.
Who really is the troll?
If I was a betting man, I’d be rich. Before the season started, I said by May/June Polanco will be on the IL. This guy can never stay on the field and Pirates should cut ties with him. 5 years of this and it’s time to lick wounds and move on from Polanco in RF.
If it is a 60day DL then he probably wont’ see much time on the field in a Pirates uniform.
He would almost have to have a 10day and come back really strong.. in which case could be a trade candidate that would mostly be a salary dump.
Other wise he will get bought out at the end of the season.
Hunter’s numbers seem to tie directly into how many times he’s been HBP lol Could be coincidence just… cute
Pirates have a few decent outfield prospects that should be here ‘soon’ some getting some time in September probably, if not sooner
Pirates are cutting most veterans for the younger prospects. Polanco has no value and trading him will cost a Pirates a prospect as well. Releasing Polanco would be the smartest move they can make with him at this time. They shouldn’t have to wait for the “buy out” to move on from him. They still have other options for RF until a solidify prospect is ready. I am over Polanco being in Pittsburgh and like to see more of these young kids. O’Neil Cruz can switch off SS and move to RF. I feel that is more suitable for him anyways. They have other options if they continue to play Cruz at SS though.
Jose Tabata was Polanco’s agent when he signed this last contract. Tabata gave him the advice of sign a long term contract and get paid to do nothing.
when Tabata did play though… he was a pretty decent contact hitter… thats about it though.
best part though is breaking up a perfect game by getting HBP.
Polanco’s contract doesn’t expire until after the 2023 season which, in his case, is a loooong time. No team will take him unless PIT eats most of his remaining salary, and even if they do the return will be light.
Tabata and Polanco were basically busts for the pay high but not ridiculously so philosophy of signing younger players.
Cutch and Marte were steals in some regards.
Tabata would be an all star on this team as he was a decent fielder with moderate speed but no power.He actually was otherwise a decent hitter.
In Polanco’s defense he was a decent player before late 2018.
Polanco decent? He’s had two good reasons the whole time he’s been with the Pirates and we’ve seen everything we’re going to see from him. Time to move on after the season.
Matt-If they had a replacement and needed the roster space I am not sure that the time to move on would not be now.
He was mediocre at best for three years,good for one,and very good for another before his fateful slide ruined his career.
I stand by my term of his decent play before that time.
I see that Cleveland has DFA’d Ben Gamel.