The Athletics announced Thursday that they’ve selected the contract of infielder Jacob Wilson from Triple-A Las Vegas and placed Chad Pinder on the 10-day injured list due to a hamstring strain. A’s skipper Bob Melvin tells reporters that Pinder’s injury is going to sideline him “awhile,” noting that the strain is in the middle of the hamstring muscle and that such injuries are “probably at least a month” (Twitter link via Matt Kawahara of the San Francisco Chronicle).
Wilson, 30, will be making his MLB debut nine years after being selected by the Cardinals in the 10th round of the 2012 draft. He’s since bounced to the Nationals for a few seasons and also spent a year with the Korea Baseball Organization’s Lotte Giants. After inking a minor league deal over the winter, he headed to Vegas and has mashed at a .288/.385/.630 clip while slugging 14 home runs, 17 doubles and a pair of triples in 218 plate appearances.
Wilson has played all over the diamond in his pro career, though his primary positions have been second base and third base. He’s also logged nearly 500 innings at first base, and the A’s have been giving him time in left field so far in 2021 as well. He’ll give them a right-handed bat to help cover for Pinder’s absence. In 1409 career plate appearances at the Triple-A level, Wilson is a .263/.341/.462 hitter.
This is the second IL stint of the season for Pinder, who missed more than a month earlier in the year thanks to a left knee sprain. The 29-year-old has been a versatile and valuable role player for the A’s in recent years, but he’s struggling through the least-productive season of his MLB tenure to date, batting just .216/.269/.358 with the second-highest strikeout rate (27.6 percent) and second-lowest walk rate (5.5 percent) of his career.
This team is in complete freefall.
Off subject but the home run derby seems a little bland. How is Vlad Jr and Judge not in this competition? When I think home run derby I imagine power hitters.
yeah, cause Olson, Gallo, Ohtani, Perez, Soto are such soft hitters ….. -_- Vlad said he didnt want to do it. Mancini is a much watch, Story is at home. I think this can be one if the better derby’s we have seen. sorry no yankees in it this year
This is Ohtanis HR Derby.
The MLB doesn’t appreciate you deflecting the attention off of that.
If you were going to whine you would ask for Tatis rather than Judge. Ohtani, Tatis and Vlad are the most deserving, but Tatis and Vlad declined. Schwarber would be next and he is injured.
Ohtani 32 hrs
Tatis 28 hrs
Vlad 28 hrs
Schwarber 25 hrs
Judge only has 20 hrs. which means he is also behind Acuna (24), Gallo (23), and Olsen (21), as well as several others Salvador Perez is a catcher and he even has 20 hrs..
Expecting big thangs froM Jacob
Wilson “has mashed” at Vegas just like pretty much everyone else who plays there. FFS Austin Beck has hit 3 HRs in just 15 ABs there after hitting just 16 in over 1,000 ABs everywhere else he has been.
…and those are his only 3 hits. 9 Ks vs 2 walks.
Vegas is not suitable for baseball, pitchers would avoid that place like the plague. Lol
Adam Frazier will be an A
I wonder if Nick Allen will be promoted to Vegas…?
Nice to see another MLB debut by a 30 YO player. Kudos to this “kid”, even if he only hits his weight. It takes dedication to the fame to ride as many busses along the way to make it this far. If heart and desire haave anything to do with it, then I hope
Hope he does well for all the other guys like him.