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Dodgers Place Max Muncy On 10-Day Injured List

By Mark Polishuk | June 13, 2021 at 8:09am CDT

JUNE 13: Manager Dave Roberts told reporters (including Juan Toribio of MLB.com) the Dodgers are hopeful Muncy will be able to return after a minimal 10-day IL stint, but cautioned that the team won’t rush him back before he’s ready.

JUNE 12: The Dodgers have placed infielder Max Muncy on the 10-day injured list due to a right oblique strain, the team announced.  Outfielder Luke Raley has been called up from Triple-A to fill Muncy’s spot on the active roster.

Muncy hit a two-run homer in the first inning of the Dodgers’ 12-1 win over the Rangers on Friday, but he was replaced at first base by Albert Pujols for the start of the second inning.  The home run was Muncy’s team-leading 14th of the season, continuing an outstanding season that has seen Muncy hit .264/.418/.528 with a league-best 46 walks.

Unfortunately for the Dodgers, they’ll now be without this productive bat for at least the next 10 days, and potentially quite a few more if Muncy has suffered anything beyond a minimal strain.  Muncy has also been bothered by a sore ankle in recent days, so it’s possible that even if his oblique problem is a minor one, the Dodgers might give Muncy beyond the 10-day minimum just to get him fully healed up and ready to go.  Muncy was scheduled to undergo more tests on his oblique today but the team has yet to release any update on the severity of the injury or any sort of recovery timeline.

With Muncy out, Pujols and Matt Beaty could now serve as a righty/lefty platoon at first base.  Beaty has been a productive part-timer in his three seasons with L.A., and Pujols moving into a semi-starting role for the World Series champions represents quite a turn-around for the future Hall-of-Famer over the last month.  It seemed as if Pujols’ career might have been over after the Angels cut him loose in May, but since signing with the Dodgers, Pujols has hit .268/.317/.571 with five home runs over 60 PA.

If Muncy’s injury wasn’t enough, Cody Bellinger also left Friday’s game due to left hamstring tightness.  Bellinger’s issue doesn’t seem to be as serious, since manager Dave Roberts told MLB.com’s Juan Toribio and other reporters that Bellinger could potentially be back in action by Sunday.

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  1. citizen

    12 months ago

    Outstanding and .264 don’t go together. 24hrs does.

    Reply
    • cryptonerd

      12 months ago

      BA is a good stat but not the only one.
      Max leads the league in walks and OBP

      Reply
      • Fever Pitch Guy

        12 months ago

        OPS is what it’s all about, BA is useful but not the most important stat.

        Reply
    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      12 months ago

      But a .964 OPS does qualify for top eight in MLB. I’ll take that over .300 BA and .650 OPS any day. As a matter of fact, Muncy is exceptional in today’s offensive environment.

      Reply
    • amk1920

      12 months ago

      How about the 164 OPS+

      Reply
    • BeforeMcCourt

      12 months ago

      You’re an idiot. Just FYI

      Reply
    • paddyo875

      12 months ago

      @citizen….You’re funny!

      That is in a “what do you mean funny? I amuse you? I’m a clown?” sense of the word.

      Reply
      • GoldenJabs

        12 months ago

        umm ya you do actually look like a clown

        Reply
    • Brewer88

      12 months ago

      .264 in today’s game wears like .285 from the past. Muncy has no real weakness in his game.

      Reply
      • Perksy

        12 months ago

        Maybe even higher. How many hitters are under .200 or low 200’s.

        Reply
        • Brewer88

          12 months ago

          league average is about 236 last I checked. The Pittsburg Pirates (Lumber Co) team 1-8 lineup that averaged 300

    • Danieley3

      11 months ago

      Cmon @Citizen. Don’t come to The Bigs with that Bush League, Arizona Fall League junk, kid! When you hit in front of Betts, Seager & then protected in the order by Turner, Bellinger, Will Smith, Pollock, Lux, etc. — as Mad Max is — OBP and OPS (which he either leads the NL in or is Top 3), while also consistently launching moonshots & stroking doubles, that .264 avg. doesn’t mean much. It’s also a batting avg. that’s down from the .275 it’s been at most of the season. And NEITHER .275/.264 are bad averages in today’s MLB.

      Context sweetie. All about context… He’s the perfect batter for this Dodgers squad, while also having become a Gold Glove caliber defender at 1B & 2B.

      Reply
  2. Fever Pitch Guy

    12 months ago

    Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.

    Reply
  3. charlie 6

    12 months ago

    Muncy is a great hitter, but his BWAR seems inflated. Hard to believe he is worth more defensive runs than Mookie Betts or Chris Taylor. He seems like a shift-created defensive god.

    Reply
    • YankeesBleacherCreature

      12 months ago

      Not taking anything away from Betts or Taylor but they don’t exactly play in neutral positions for every batter.

      Reply
    • BeforeMcCourt

      12 months ago

      watch the games. Muncy has played fantastic defense at two positions this year while being a top 10 bat in the NL

      Reply
  4. Dixon Miaz

    12 months ago

    Max muncy is a great player. But he’s a big jerk. Reminds me of Reggie Jackson

    Reply
    • Ron Tingley

      12 months ago

      Is this what trolling means? Asking for a square.

      Reply
      • Dixon Miaz

        12 months ago

        Ratio

        Reply
        • johnrealtime

          12 months ago

          You certainly did get ratioed

    • semut

      12 months ago

      You must be a Vagiants fan. The only guy he’s ever been a “jerk” to is whiney bumgarner

      Reply
  5. Ron Tingley

    12 months ago

    Pujols was supposed to only be a late inn pinch hit option. The AB’s keep on comin!

    Reply
    • mlbnyyfan

      12 months ago

      Pujols showing he has something left. It’s amazing what a change of scenery will do for a player. Yankees need to definitely trade Sanchez and possibly Judge.

      Reply
      • Dustyslambchops23

        12 months ago

        Change of scenery doesn’t usually help staying on the field

        Reply
      • Lamar Smith

        12 months ago

        Trade Judge? And whom do you expect to take his place? DH only Stanton?

        Reply
      • StudWinfield

        12 months ago

        Sanchez is unlikely to bring much back considering he’s likely to be non-tendered. Of the possible playoff teams only CLE is in need of a C, maybe HOU. He’s worth holding onto as long as NY is still competing for a WC spot.

        Reply
    • Cap & Crunch

      12 months ago

      Lovin Albert.

      He looks to be having a lotta fun up the 405

      Reply
      • enjoylindor

        11 months ago

        Oklahoma City?

        Reply
  6. despicable_you

    12 months ago

    Baseball players are clearly not athletes.

    Reply
  7. Sadler

    12 months ago

    I decided to take a gander at Pujols’ stats sheet .. so he’s the all time leader in grounding into double plays; by a lot — 56 more than the #2 player, Cal Ripken.

    And at first I thought, “Gee, it’s pretty amazing just how many double plays he’s hit into in his career.” And then I noticed … 25 of the top 50 players on the all-time double play list are in the Hall of Fame and at least another 5 that either could or should be in the hall.

    I guess it comes down to the fact that only the really good players are in the sport long enough to be able to hit into that many.

    https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/GIDP_career.shtml

    Reply
    • Ron Tingley

      12 months ago

      Pretty much means you got to be pretty good to hit cleanup for a long time. I wonder how many came as an Angel.

      Reply
    • DonOsbourne

      12 months ago

      Multiple factors contribute to that. Longevity obviously. But also, especially early in his career, he was a great contact hitter. Low strike outs and not just contact, but hard contact. He was also one of the slowest players I’ve ever watched. When you factor in his footspeed (or lack thereof), it is pretty amazing he stole 115 bases in his career. His caught stealing rate isn’t even that bad for a guy that slow.

      Reply
      • BeforeMcCourt

        12 months ago

        Pujols didn’t steal bases by beating the throw to 2nd. He stole bases by catching defenses so lax, that he could walk off 1B as the pitch was thrown and trot into 2B fairly easily

        The fact he has 115 speaks to how how his baseball IQ is imo. He wasn’t beating a throw. So he had to outsmart them

        Reply
    • BeforeMcCourt

      12 months ago

      He was and honestly still a fantastic contact hitter. Hit the ball more, you’re gonna give the defense more chances to make plays. Probably explains the HOF connection in general

      Then add that the majority of his career he had plantar fasciitis. If you read the stories from when he went through the start of the PF issues, it’s pretty openly known it affected him even back in STL

      Then add that defenses shift more than ever. As I just said, any ball knocked down by an infield defender was a guaranteed out for half his career. it’s really not shocking he’s the all time leading GIDP guy

      Reply
    • brandons-3

      12 months ago

      There’s only two players (Reggie Jackson and Jim Thome) to ever strike out more than 2,500 times in their careers. Both are in the Hall of Fame and hit over 560 home runs in their career.

      Reply
      • Ron Tingley

        11 months ago

        Mike Trout next.

        Reply
  8. 2020vision

    12 months ago

    Doesn’t Muncy need an oblique in order to strain one?

    Reply
    • BeforeMcCourt

      11 months ago

      I love the fat anonymous internet trolls that criticizing highly successful professional athletes because of their body

      No wonder this country has by far the most eating disorders in the world. This dudes as successful as they come in the game over the last 5 years and that’s what you got to say? I hope you don’t have children

      Reply

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