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Cody Bradford Diagnosed With Rib Stress Fracture

By Anthony Franco | April 26, 2024 at 4:24pm CDT

Rangers starter Cody Bradford has been diagnosed with a stress fracture in his rib, manager Bruce Bochy informed reporters (including Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News). The left-hander will be out of action for at least another month. He has been on the injured list since April 14 with what the team initially indicated was a lower back strain.

The injury interrupted what had been a strong start to the season. The Baylor product secured the fifth starter spot out of camp. He’d done everything in his power over his first three outings to keep hold of that job. Bradford allowed only four runs (three earned) in 19 1/3 innings. He punched out 17 against two walks. After working five innings of two-run ball against the Cubs in his season debut, he tossed consecutive quality starts against the Astros and A’s.

Bradford had an up-and-down rookie season in 2023. He started eight of 20 appearances, allowing a 5.30 earned run average over 56 innings. He showed excellent control and decent swing-and-miss ability, but opposing hitters jumped on him for 1.77 home runs per nine. Bradford had allowed just one longball (to Dansby Swanson) in his three starts this season.

He’s one of four Texas starters on the injured list. Jacob deGrom and Tyler Mahle are still months away from completing rehab processes from Tommy John surgery. Max Scherzer should be back on the Globe Life Field mound in the next few weeks. The future Hall of Famer began a rehab stint with Triple-A Round Rock on Wednesday as he recovers from an offseason back procedure. He worked 2 1/3 innings in his first game action of 2024, getting to 52 pitches.

It now looks like Scherzer will be back well before the Rangers anticipate Bradford’s return. In the interim, they’ll proceed with a starting five of Nathan Eovaldi, Jon Gray, Dane Dunning, Michael Lorenzen and Andrew Heaney. Heaney has been rocked for a 6.26 ERA over his first five starts. If Bradford were healthy, that would likely have pushed Heaney to the bullpen. Texas called up former #2 pick Jack Leiter for a spot start last week but optioned him back to Round Rock a day later.

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  1. Fraham_

    1 year ago

    Fantasy legend for 3 starts

    Reply
  2. Deckard

    1 year ago

    Darn that pitch clock. Another victim.

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  3. seanb1223

    1 year ago

    Leiter pitched really well last night for Round Rock. It wouldn’t be a surprise to see him back up sometime next month if he keeps it up in AAA.

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    • Okie_baseball

      1 year ago

      Yeah I watched that game he was pretty good. Actually his mlb start wasent as bad as it looked, if Leody caught that one deep ball it would have gotten Leiter out of that one tough inning.

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  4. Rsox

    1 year ago

    Pitch clock? Brick wall? Lack of sticky stuff? Rob Manfred? I just don’t know who to blame anymore…

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    • foppert2

      1 year ago

      The collision of technologically driven improvement, biological limits and dreams of generational wealth. No one to blame there.

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