Adolis Garcia and Marcus Semien collided in pursuit of a fly ball in shallow right field in Saturday’s game, leaving Garcia with a sore forearm that kept him out of Sunday’s game. The issue was serious enough that Garcia underwent an MRI, but manager Bruce Bochy told MLB.com’s Kennedi Landry (X link) and other reporters that the outfielder received “pretty good” results from the tests. Since the Rangers don’t play on Monday, the team is hopeful that another day of rest will have Garcia ready for the start of their series Tuesday against the Phillies.
Garcia has a solid 117 wRC+ over 192 plate appearances this season, though his .251/.297/.491 slash line is obviously power-heavy. While Garcia has 11 homers and is making lots of hard contact, his strikeout and walk rates are both far below the league average, and his 5.7% walk rate is in particular a sharp drop from his 10.3% number in 2023. Despite these concerns, Garcia has still been one of the better hitters in a Texas lineup that has struggled to follow up on its huge numbers from its championship season.
More injury updates from around baseball…
- Sticking with the Rangers, Cody Bradford told Landry and other reporters that the stress fracture in his rib isn’t improving, even if the injury is no longer causing him pain. Bradford has been shut down from throwing for the time being, and it isn’t yet known how long this shutdown might extend his recovery timeline. Bradford hasn’t pitched since April 10 due to a lower back strain that led to his initial placement on the 10-day injured list, but the rib fracture was discovered near the end of April, and it was expected that Bradford would likely miss the rest of May. The left-hander had a sterling 1.40 ERA in his first 19 1/3 innings of the season, but his injuries have made him one of an incredible six starting pitchers on the Rangers’ IL.
- Emilio Pagan had to be removed from the Reds’ 3-2 loss to the Dodgers today after the reliever felt some pain in his triceps area. “It felt like my triceps overstretched right in the middle,” Pagan said told MLB.com and other media, though “it wasn’t sharp pain. It wasn’t a grab.” Pagan will be examined by team doctors during the Monday off-day, but an initial round of tests created some hope that the issue isn’t serious. Pagan’s 54.2% hard-hit ball rate is among the highest in baseball and he is having his usual trouble keeping the ball in the park, but the right-hander has limited the damage to a 4.19 ERA over 19 1/3 innings thanks to an outstanding strikeout rate.
- Pirates pitching prospect Bubba Chandler has been placed on the seven-day IL at Double-A due to forearm tightness, as assistant GM Steve Sanders relayed in an interview on 93.7 radio (hat tip to Justin Guerriero of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review). Chandler was a third-round pick for the Bucs in the 2021 draft, and he is ranked 57th by Baseball America and 66th by MLB Pipeline in their current lists of the sport’s top prospects. The righty had 3.10 ERA over his first 20 1/3 innings of the Double-A season but was hit hard in his last two outings, perhaps in relation to the forearm issue.
“Adolis Garcia and Marcus Semien collided in pursuit”…..Marcus Semien(750+ PAs last year) has played in at least 161 games 4 out of the last 5 years(53 gms in short season 2020)and Adolis Garcia has at least 622 plate appearances in the 3 yrs preceding this season(on pace to do it again) so I imagine both will get up, dust themselves off, get a good nights sleep and be right back in the lineup on Tuesday. You gotta admire the guys who post up daily and play thru the bumps and bruises that would sideline many other guys.
After throwing batting practice for weeks, now Pagan is claiming ouch, I got arm issues. Simply amazing.
You are talking about the guy who hasn’t given up any Earned Runs and only 1 hit over his last 6 appearances spanning 5 2/3 innings and two weeks, right? Sounds like some tough batting practice he’s throwing since no one is hitting it.
Pagan’s biggest flaw was allowing Krall to sign him. All you need to know is “this one” knows everything and we who “worship at the alter” knows nothing. I found it’s best to ignore him and his holier than thou.attitude
Question is, if Krall had not signed Pagan and Martinez could he have gotten Montas, Wilson, perhaps Suter to sign?Early on, pitcher FA hesitant to sign with Reds and their lack of pitching in 2023.
Two weeks does not a season make, nor does 5 2/3 innings.
4 HRs and 7 walks in 19 innings is ridiculous for a reliever. Not to mention the inherited runners who scored which stat boys never see.
I notice you left out the 25Ks he’s had in that 19 innings. And the fact that he hasn’t allowed a hit in half his appearances. If you take out the May 3rd appearance, his ERA is under 3. You look at a stat line and think you know everything there is to know without looking any deeper. Sad. Laughable. Tiresome. You must be one of those guys who thinks that any player who isn’t an All-Star just sucks. If you’re not first, you’re last, right?
I actually watch the games, not the stat lines. So I am actually seeing the performances or lack thereof. How about you?
Walks and Home runs by a relief pitcher basically blow it for the starter and drive managers nuts. Strikeouts are overrated and means nothing if leads are blown anyway. Bell is probably ordering Maalox by the truckload. Incidentally, who can you count on among relievers on this team to get you out of a jam? If you answer truthfully instead of Twitter rants, you would say certainly not this guy or anyone else in that burned out bullpen.
No one has to be an All-Star, just competent. Some teams like the Phillies presently and the Cardinals in prior years know how to build a bullpen, some don’t.
Watching games does nothing for you if you have preconceived notions. And you are NOT the only one watching games.
So, This One, the Cardinals forgot how to build a bullpen while the Phillies figured out how to build one. The Yankees used to have great and expensive bullpens but have decided that they no longer will spend their $ on the highest priced relievers. Why? Because most fans know that there is a huge variance in reliever reliability from year to year. Look at how poorly some of this years high priced free agent relievers have fared.
Some know it all fans don’t know how to build a bullpen, or maybe they forgot how like the Cardinals …
The problem is your comment makes no sense. “After throwing batting practice for weeks, ouch his arm hurts”
That implies he was pitching poorly right before his arm hurts and he wasn’t at all. Hard to let many inherited runners score when you’ve given up 1 hit and 1 walk in those 6 appearances.
I think Pagan was a bad signing because he’s the kind of guy you should be able to develop internally and not have pay multiple years for.
Perfectly understandable if you are looking at the whole season instead of six appearances, which is not the entire season. He was cherry picking, plain and simple.
Anyone who doesn’t see the Candelario, Pagan, and Martinez signings were a waste of money and better spent elsewhere to build out an entire roster is not being intellectually honest. But those who worship at the altar are not.
It is very simple, actually. In high leverage situations in the 7th and 8th innings, he was blowing leads. When they started pitching him in the middle innings in games they were behind, he put up the last six games stats you all are touting.
That’s why you actually watch the games.
Rough news on Chandler. Put him in that rotation in couple years and your talking rotation being very, very good! Plus Pirates have more on way.
And when it comes time to pay them, they’ll all be gone
Take for 6 years ,then let go. That’s the way now,look at college football.