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Royals Place Zack Greinke On Injured List

By Darragh McDonald | August 8, 2023 at 5:15pm CDT

The Royals have placed right-hander Zack Greinke on the 15-day injured list, per Anne Rogers of MLB.com, with right posterior elbow soreness. The move is retroactive to yesterday. Left-hander Taylor Hearn was recalled in a corresponding move.

Greinke, 39, has an extensive track record of major league success but is struggling through one of the worst seasons of his career. He’s allowing 5.53 earned runs per nine innings, striking out just 15.8% of batters faced. He hasn’t had huge strikeout totals for a few years now, relying more on limiting hard contact, but that’s proved to be more challenging this year. His 8.6% barrel rate is the worst of his career, as is the 89.5 mph average exit velocity he’s allowed. 17.2% of fly balls he’s allowed are leaving the yard, one of the worst such rates of his career.

It’s unclear how long Greinke is expected to be out, but the club will have to operate without him for at least the next two weeks. That will leave them with a rotation of Brady Singer, Cole Ragans, Jordan Lyles and Alec Marsh. They are currently in a stretch of 12 straight games, with their next off-day not until Sunday. That means they will need a fifth starter, or a bullpen game, at some point between now and then. Max Castillo and Jonathan Bowlan are each on the 40-man roster though they both have ERAs above 5.00 in Triple-A this year.

Greinke is currently sitting on 2,995 career strikeouts. Just five more will allow him to hit the 3,000 milestone, something that only 19 other pitchers have ever done in history. Royals fans, and baseball fans in general, will hope that he returns to health in time to hit that incredible marker.

Hearn will be making his Royals debut whenever he gets into a game, as he was just acquired from Atlanta prior to the deadline. He has a 3.37 ERA in the minors this year, tossing 42 2/3 innings between the two organizations. He’s struck out 30.1% of opponents in that time but walked 12.8%.

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  1. slidepiece

    2 years ago

    3000 K
    10 SB/10 HR career may now never happen

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    • Buzz Killington

      2 years ago

      Royals are trash. They could bring him back two years from now and allow him to pitch two years to get to it if needed. Don’t give up hope.

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    • afsooner02

      2 years ago

      Covid season cost him at least 45 ks. Otherwise he likely has it.

      With that cy young, he gets in the HOF. Just won’t be first ballot.

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      • Mercenary.Freddie.Freeman

        2 years ago

        @af. Schilling has 3000 k and 3 times World Series championships which he was a HUGE part of and he didn’t make it. I wonder how Greinke will do with his odd personality when the HOF voting time comes for him.

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        • luckyh

          2 years ago

          Greinke will be fine. Personality totally different. Schill absolutely deserves to be in the Hall, just way too offensive and opinionated.

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        • MLB Top 100 Commenter

          2 years ago

          Schilling is a bigot, but if you judge him for his results on the field, he is a clear choice for HOF.

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        • unpaidobserver

          2 years ago

          It’s literally a popularity contest.

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        • case

          2 years ago

          Who cares how many K’s they have, it’s borderline irrelevant compared to ERA. World Series Championships are a team stat, though Schilling was impressive in some of those series, proving he could do well against top flight competition. Certainly more impressive than someone like Clemens.

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        • Cam

          2 years ago

          Greinke’s personality is generally likeable. Schilling’s personality is generally not.

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        • Mercenary.Freddie.Freeman

          2 years ago

          Manny there are far worse decades enshrined in the HOF. Cap Anson, Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Tris Speaker, Tom Yawkey.

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        • kcmark

          2 years ago

          Actually it’s not. Greinke is rather stand-offish and can be rude.

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    • MLB Top 100 Commenter

      2 years ago

      2955 strikes and 45 to go. Not just 5 to go. Time for him to retire and go to HOF but it is not like Royals have much at stake so he will be back.

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    • JackPine

      2 years ago

      Except for ohtani

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    • The UnderCROWNd

      2 years ago

      He needs 45 strikeouts, not 5. Writer misread the numbers… Greinke is at 2,555.

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  2. Rishi

    2 years ago

    Pitchers always pitch a season or two too many. It messes up their career stats too. All to pitch for a horrible team. But baseball is fun. Especially when you don’t have to play every single day.

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    • Rishi

      2 years ago

      Oh yea and money is cool too. I forgot somehow.

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    • mlb fan

      2 years ago

      “A season or two too many “..I totally agree, but Zack is a stand up guy and has always made it clear, he was in it for the money and would try to make and earn every last cent.

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      • Rishi

        2 years ago

        Yea. He got a solid contract. Who wouldn’t want that money.

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  3. clrrogers

    2 years ago

    Posterior elbow soreness? I didn’t even know my elbow had a butt.

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    • Rsox

      2 years ago

      What you don’t want is a crack…

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    • clrrogers

      2 years ago

      Or does my butt have an elbow? I’m confused.

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    • cadagan

      2 years ago

      Anterior is front. Posterior is back.

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  4. jlux

    2 years ago

    He is at 2,955 K’s according to bbref.

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    • kma

      2 years ago

      Haha. 2955..2995..3005. It doesn’t matter. He’ll be in the HOF within the next ten years with Kershaw, Scherzer, Verlander and CC.

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      • User 3595123227

        2 years ago

        Why would cc sabbatical get in the Hall Of Fame?

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        • unpaidobserver

          2 years ago

          “One of these things is not like the other, one of these things just isnt the same.”

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        • kma

          2 years ago

          3000 Ks and Yankees get in, like it or not.

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        • Cam

          2 years ago

          CC is basically a lock to get in – 3000 K’s, 250 wins (to keep the traditionalists happy), a Cy Young and a World Series win. His bWAR is right there in line with Feller, Sutton and Marichal.

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        • Rishi

          2 years ago

          WAR/162. CC Sabathia-3.8. Cole Hamels-4.7. Tim Hudson- 4.1. All within 5 career war. Only one of these guys is gonna get any consideration tho. Seems unfair. Hudson got 3% of vote and fell off likely because of a lack of Ks influencing biased voters(even tho he isn’t a HOFer but he deserves more consideration than 3%). Should Hamels be punished for being almost as valuable in his career as CC but in fewer seasons?

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  5. penale52

    2 years ago

    He’s 45 strikeouts away from 3,000. Not 5.

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  6. DBH1969

    2 years ago

    He went on the IL, not to the funeral home. He will get to 3,000 strike outs. He already has 200 wins. He might go in first ballot

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    • Tigers3232

      2 years ago

      @DBH he has 73 Ks in 22 starts this season. Even without an IL stint 3,000 was anything but a certainty. He ll need to come back and have probably 2-3 high K games. He’s only had 6 Ks twice this season and 5 twice. For his sake I hope he gets there, looks like a long shot to happen this season though.

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      • DBH1969

        2 years ago

        He was 11 and 6 two years ago and suddenly tosses his first losing season 17 years followed by a horrible 1 and 11. That speaks injury last year to me that was either ignored or not taken seriously.
        I mean, I could be wrong. But I think the dude said I am hurt, but just let me get to 3000 and then I will retire, and in doing so, made the injury worse.
        Now a days you can legit say, he is only 39 hah! He will get fixed, come back for his 45Ks, and then prolly pitch another 3 or 4 years.

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  7. Cory in Texas

    2 years ago

    Let’s go Taylor. Make it happen.

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  8. User 3595123227

    2 years ago

    Come on it’s already Tuesday night and not the first pitcher has stepped up this week for a Tommy John Surgery. Starting to make me nervous.

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  9. angt222

    2 years ago

    Greinke had to work for that $8.5M this year.

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  10. angt222

    2 years ago

    With the universal DH, idk if he was going to reach the 10/10 mark.

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  11. Hawkeye75

    2 years ago

    He doesn’t have 2995 strikeouts. He has 2955.

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  12. AllAboutBaseball

    2 years ago

    Wuth the way he is pitching He won’t reach 3K this year.

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  13. KrustyTheKlown

    2 years ago

    Him getting to the HOF but not Schilling is a travesty. They have nearly identical stats.

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  14. differentbears

    2 years ago

    I know wins and losses aren’t as important, but a record of 1-12 is a pretty ugly line.

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