The Athletics have placed Stephen Piscotty on the 10-day injured list because of a left wrist sprain, the team announced. Piscotty will see a specialist in Arizona, per MLB.com’s Martín Gallegos (via Twitter). Skye Bolt will be recalled to claim Piscotty’s roster spot.
Bolt was only recently sent down. The injury to Piscotty, however, allows Oakland to turn around and bring him right back to the active roster. Bolt had been serving as an injury replacement for the recently-returned Ramon Laureano. In nine games, Bolt went 1-for-13 at the plate with a solo homer. While his bat has yet to heat up at the Major League level, Bolt has flashed plus glovework in the outfield while making a couple of highlight reel catches. His glove has been worth one defensive run saved in a mere 36 innings of scattered playing time in centerfield.
Piscotty, generally speaking, sees semi-regular playing time in right field, splitting responsibilities with Seth Brown in a fairly straightforward platoon. The right-handed Piscotty has 75 plate appearances against southpaws this year (with a 105 wRC+) versus 66 opportunities against right-handers (with a 59 wRC+). On the whole, the veteran owns a .217/.284/.357 line with 4 home runs, a 7.8 percent walk rate and 23.4 percent strikeout rate. Piscotty’s splits haven’t always been quite so severe, but with a 127 wRC+ in his career against lefties – and just 102 wRC+ against righties – he can generally be regarded as a plus bat so long as he’s kept on the short side of a platoon.
Brown, his counterpart in right, has just 14 plate appearances against lefties versus 141 plate appearances against righties. In the, admittedly, tiny sample, Brown has managed quite well against southpaws – 132 wRC+, which can be attributed to one home run and three walks). With Piscotty out, manager Bob Melvin could give Brown an opportunity to prove himself with more volume against left-handers. More likely, however, Melvin will turn to Chad Pinder or Bolt himself, who is a switch-hitter.
I see what you did there… “Bolt has flashed plus glovework”.
So if they are platooning Brown should obviously be “Thunder” from here on out.
The Skye’s the limit for this guy, here’s hoping that he Bolts right out of the gate this time around.
Hey, I don’t critique your hobbies… and yea I need new ones.
Guy already has his defense set and ready before the insults came in, nice.
I will give $1,000 to anyone who knew Piss was still an Oakland A.
You owe everyone on the west coast a lot of money.
Pisscotty didn’t even know he was on the A’s. Don’t lie
You can’t keep this guy grounded in AAA. He keeps soaring.
Piscotty was a nice story back in 2018 but inconsistency and injuries. Stuck with a bad contract by A’s standards. I’d like to see what bolt, barerra can do. Maybe even buddy reed or Cody Thomas.. they do have some inexperienced, older but semi interesting AAA outfield depth. Although they’ll just leave canha as everyday RF for now and rotate guys like kemp, brown, bolt etc getting chances
Pretty sure you don’t need the commas around admittedly. Sentence looks really clunky.