Rays first baseman and outfielder Jordan Luplow successfully underwent arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle today, tweets Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. Tampa Bay expects Luplow to be recovered in time for the start of 2022 Spring Training.
The Rays acquired Luplow along with reliever DJ Johnson in a midseason deal with Cleveland to deepen their bench down the stretch. Luplow’s health status at the time hinted at this offseason procedure, as he was rehabbing in the minors with a left ankle sprain when the trade took place.
The trade proved fruitful, but perhaps in unexpected ways for the playoff contending Rays. Luplow, who to this point in his Major League career only appeared in the three outfield positions and DH, primarily manned first base and garnered positive marks there for the Rays. His resume continued to expand as he also went on to make cameos at second and third base, in addition to contributing an inning of one-run ball as a pitcher.
Further, the right-handed Luplow made his mark in the Cleveland organization for being a lefty masher, sporting an OPS of .899 when holding the platoon advantage in his career. In both Tampa and the year on the whole, however, Luplow’s skillset reversed, as he pulverized right-handed pitching but stumbled to a sub-.700 OPS against lefties. The resulting overall .202/.326/.454 slash on the year was good for an OPS+ of 115 when factoring in Luplow’s pitcher-friendly home parks, but newfound success against same-handed pitchers may add a wrinkle to how the team evaluates him moving forward.
Yeah. This is really going to make a difference.
Did @DeletedUser like this comment too?
I did. It was a bet. Get over it. I deleted my account like I said I would. I never said I wouldn’t make a new one.
What bet did you lose?
Steve – I was told you directed a comment toward me under this article. I think you must have replied to the WAR buffoon, because I can’t see it. Anyone who replies to a person I muted, I can’t see their replies. I can’t even see my own response to the buffoon, which I posted before muting him.
So please copy and paste at the bottom and I will respond. And BTW there’s another imposter here with a similar handle to mine. What a bunch of pathetic morons, obsessing over me when all they need to do is mute me.
Lol you people really don’t have anything to do do you.
thekid9 – Yes I totally agree!!
It’s like a moron who keeps hitting himself in the head with a hammer, and then complains about the hammer.
They have nothing better to do than complain about me and try to impersonate me. No wonder Yahoo and other places have removed all commenting abilities under their articles. Lots of sad, pathetic people out there.
Your momma don’t wear no drawers Steve – get over it
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
I knew it was you @FeverPitchGuy. Why can’t you say that about Hess when he actually had cancer which is a life threatening disease? You are such a loser. You always say that word for word repeatedly when the player has a minor injury. You never have “Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery” when a man’s life is actually in danger with cancer. You literally just mock people who actually care about other people’s health. No wonder they already banned your account once. You used to go by “@Fever Pitch” and then you must’ve been caught saying something actually offensive in between mocking good empathetic people. Why else would you have to change your screen name to “@Fever Pitch GUY”? If you were being genuine you wouldn’t literally say the exact same 7 words every single time and make a point to never say it to cancer patients.
Does anyone else just glaze over this guys comments? Maybe he makes good points, maybe he doesn’t. Any comment by anyone that’s longer than 6 lines i don’t have time for.
Bucsfan, there’s something seriously wrong with him.
I took the time to address his longwinded rant against me last week and exposed his foolishness in great detail. Either he doesn’t have the integrity to apologize for his false accusations, or he separated from reality and doesn’t remember any of it.
Either way, I’m done with him. He’s on mute now. I’ve never been banned in my life, but if I keep reading his insane personal attacks against me then I might lose my temper and tell him what he needs to hear.
I cant not and it causes me to cringe.
I don’t know either way. I do know some people were talking about you, Fever, the other day. You do always say the same thing and when someone had cancer you didn’t say anything. Maybe you were just busy? It probably seems that way because you always say the exact same words. There are a lot of people who doubt your authenticity on this site. I never paid any attention to him before but now that he said it, why do you always say the exact same thing? And never anything else? Maybe it’s nothing but you seem very disingenuous to a lot of people. Why just constantly ignore everyone while typing the same thing every time? What does that accomplish? “Mets missed war” or whatever is probably a loser but that doesn’t explain why you pull this stunt every time someone has a minor injury while putting in no effort but ignore people with real problems. My advice: stop reading out your “thoughts and prayers” from a script. It seems fake. Scripts are fake and you always say the same script. MissedWAR guy is whatever but he doesn’t matter. You seem like you don’t care but just want recognition for pretending to care. If you really care just talk about it. Don’t read from a script. You always read from a script.
Most baseball fans are humorless, which is a shame, so a light-hearted ‘thoughts and prayers’ comment for a minor injury is going to trigger some people. Life’s too short to worry about some commenter on a stupid web site.
I have muted him too. He is an EBD cyber stalker.
@missed WAR Would you be happier if he said “prayers and thoughts”?
I would be happier if it wasn’t so manufactured. Stop saying the exact same words every time. It is fake. If he has “thoughts” then read the article and express the thoughts. I’m sitting there with several other people discussing exactly what that player is going through, comparing it to people we have each met and talking about how it could get better. FPGuy always shows up with a cookie cutter line that involves zero thought or prayers but says he has both. It’s manufactured BS. If he really cared he would talk about it like the rest of us over the past several years. He doesn’t care. He just wants people to think he does. Tbh I never noticed it before until multiple people pointed out to me. He has “thoughts and prayers?” Why not actually say them like the rest of us? Because he doesn’t have either. I have watched someone else type “Thoughts and Prayers for a speedy recovery” before Fever Pitch Guy did. You know what his response was? To literally reply to that exact same comment with the exact same words. It is so manufactured. If he means it why does he make it so manufactured every single time? Why doesn’t he share his thoughts and prayers like the rest of us instead of just trying to pretend he has them? He always says the same thing every single time. It’s like a “sorry for your loss” card. He’s not even the person handing the card. He’s just the manufactured card. In reality, the person handing the card would actually be able to do something more than repeat the same 7 words over and over and over again. @FeverPitchGuy is incapable of that. He is just too fake. If he were real his true thoughts and prayers could never fit into the same 7 words every single time for every single person in every single situation. What a joke. He is so dead set on making people think he’s a good person that he forgot to make sure people didn’t realize he was a fake person. @Fever Pitch Guy: The words you say lose meaning when you just repeat them verbatim over and over again with zero description. If you actually have “thoughts and prayers” why don’t you talk about those instead of just telling people you have them? I mean Jesus. At least say it in a different way so people know you aren’t just copying and pasting every time. I’ve never met someone in my life that put such little effort in.
EBD cyber stalker. Muted.
Lolololcoaster I KNEW IT WAS YOU FEVER GUY! Holy crap are you dudes hilarious. You created drama on a baseball rumor message board. Ridiculous.
Yeah. Kind of silly. I said “I knew it was you” because me and another guy were talking about someone who always posts the same thing over and over and over and over again. Even if someone else says it he does it. Even if someone is like “watch. This guy is going to pop up and say ‘Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery'” he always does it like predictable clockwork. Even after people point out how manufactured and fake the whole thing is. When they brought it; p I said “I think it’s a guy named Fever Pitch but I’m not sure.” Sure enough… It was Fever Pitch Guy. He showed up here and did it again. That’s the only reason I said I knew it was him. He’s so predictable, thoughtless and fake it’s sad.
To be fair here, you’re all equally pathetic. Missed War, Fever Pitch, and Steve Nebraska. You’re all ridiculous , self absorbed clowns, who post waaaaaay too much. You don’t have to have an opinion on every article, and if you do, I’m pretty sure most have made it clear, that you’re all obnoxious. Steve is at least funny every once in awhile. Fever never says anything valauble, and the WAR guy is the biggest clown on here. He replies to the first comment of the article frequently, though his reply has nothing to do with the first comment. Just a narcissist begging for someone to pay attention to him. No one reads those ridiculously long posts. You don’t work here. You’re not insightful. You’re basically a troll at this point. And your name is stupid. Other than that stuff, you’re probably all fine humans. Have a blessed day!!!
Hector – Thanks for the morning laugh! You’re certainly entitled to your opinions, no matter how wrong they may be.
My opinion is that it’s kinda pathetic you claim to know so much about other posters, and took the time to write a lengthy post about them.
I mean, sure there’s posters on this forum that I don’t really care for. But unless they personally attack me, I just … ya know … ignore them? Because I wouldn’t want to waste anybody’s time reading about posters on a forum dedicated to baseball.
FTR I’ve already posted elsewhere that I’ve been spending a fair amount of time here because ATM my team is playing in the ALCS and I have the time, but that will change within a couple weeks when the season is over.
I won’t bother to address again the “valuable” or “funny” parts, as it’s just your perception and we all know perception is based on mental content.
But I did like your last sentence, and wish you the same!
I’m hoping you’re not related to Charlie, he was a great guy when I knew him back in his UConn days.
I can agree with that. At least the rest of us aren’t so predictable you know exactly what 7 words we are going to say. Only Fever Pitch is that uninsightful.
Thoughts and prayers for a slow and painful recovery
Go Angels!
Lolololcoaster I KNEW IT WAS YOU FEVER GUY! Holy crap are you dudes hilarious. You created drama on a baseball rumor message board. Ridiculous.
SystemQB – I agree!! I come here to post about baseball, not about other posters. Amazing that there are people here who have their panties in a bunch because I dare to use the word “prayers”. I’m sure socialism has nothing to do with it, right?
I hope Mike trout has a setback. Prayers for that
You guys all need to shut the hell up – whining about your pathetic lives when we have a clear hall of fame candidate undergoing life-threatening ankle surgery. But Ofcourse, none of you losers would know what that feels like since you aren’t athletes. I invite each and every single one of you losers to take a deep look into your lives and admit to yourselves that you guys are simpletons – mindless fools trying to assert yourselves as the biggest internet kingpin. A gathering of idiots with nothing to offer to society but your unsolicited 2 cents on matters far surpassing what your pigeon brains can handle.
Bird brains are far more complex than most give credit.