The Giants announced some roster moves this morning, including the news that right-hander Keaton Winn and outfielder Mike Yastrzemski have both been sidelined with injuries. Winn has been placed on the 15-day IL with inflammation in his throwing elbow, while Yastrzemski is headed to the 10-day IL with a left oblique strain. Both placements are retroactive to June 21. Outfielder Luis Matos and infielder David Villar were called up from Triple-A in corresponding moves, and the Giants also sent utilityman Tyler Fitzgerald to Triple-A.
Yastrzemski left Thursday’s game due to his strain, and while oblique problems are known to have fluid timelines, the outfielder told the San Francisco Chronicle’s Susan Slusser (all links to X) that he doesn’t think he’ll miss much if any time beyond the minimum 10 days. After a very slow start to his season, Yastrzemski’s bat has started to heat up over the last few weeks, bringing him to an above-average 104 wRC+ and a .224/.304/.406 slash line over 215 plate appearances.
Yaz has been the Giants’ regular right fielder when a right-handed pitcher is on the mound, but his absence will leave the team short on left-handed bats as a whole, with LaMonte Wade Jr. is also on the IL and Jung Ho Lee is gone for the season. It isn’t an ideal situation for a team that likes to play matchups as much as the Giants, though Matos can help fill the void in the outfield overall, even though Matos is another right-handed hitter.
This is the second time Winn has visited the IL this season, as a forearm strain put him on the shelf for four weeks. He had made three starts since his last activation from the 15-day, though the righty has struggled both before and after his IL stint, posting a 7.16 ERA across 55 1/3 innings.
As much as the Giants were hoping Winn could become a solid rotation piece in his first full Major League season, health is now the bigger question for the 26-year-old. Winn missed the entire 2021 season recovering from Tommy John surgery, so a pair of injuries to his forearm/elbow area in quick succession certainly is a big cause for concern. Past health history notwithstanding, it is also possible Winn’s current issue is just some basic soreness that can be cleared up with 15 days of rest and rehab.
Logan Webb and Jordan Hicks are now the only two healthy starters in San Francisco’s rotation, though both Blake Snell and Robbie Ray will pitch in rehab work for Triple-A Sacramento on Sunday. Giants manager Bob Melvin told Slusser and other reporters that Snell might just need the one rehab start before being activated from the 15-day IL, if all goes well. Kyle Harrison is rehabbing from a sprained ankle and might not need any rehab work after being placed on the IL last weekend with an ankle sprain.
Hurry back YAZ.
I like Yastrzemski, but don’t you think 2025 is going to be Ramos, Lee and Matos, with Soler as DH. Yaz and Slater will be the 4 and 5 outfielders and Conforto will have a new home.
Exactly how I see the outfield DH alignment
But my names not ElHeHe.
I’m not even sure Slater is brought back.
As long as Zaidi’s in charge Slater will be a Giant.
Hopefully both will be gone sooner than later.
Keaton Winn sprained his neck watching all those balls get hit to the outfield the other day
Giants really don’t seem to like Fitzgerald. He’s hit better than most of the players on the big league roster but continues to get shuffled to AAA.
He’s also made a ton of errors in the field and on the basepaths
And though he’s RH, he duplicates Wisely in many ways, and Wisely has been consistently good both offensively and defensively.
So the rotation is now Webb, Hicks and three bullpen games?
Orange’nBlackAttack
Yup.
Logan Webb, Jordan Hicks, waiting for Kyle Harrison, waiting for Blake Snell, waiting for Robbie Ray, waiting for Alex Cobb
This afternoon, Snell and Ray will pitch innings 1-3 and innings 4-6 (roughly), respectively, today for the Sacramento Rivercats (Giants AAA-team) against the Roundrock Express (Texas-AAA team). Pretty cool to send out two former Cy Young Award winners in the same minor league baseball game.
And snell was awful. Kinda seems like he’s mailing it in at this point knowing he’s guaranteed 30 mil next year
bro if villar goes 3 for 22 with no power over the next few series never i wanna see him back hes had too many shots
He’s really the classic AAAA guy.
Way too streaky for the majors.
SFG just trying to catch his current hot streak while Flores gets a needed break.
Forget the IL, Winn should be on waivers.
No, but I don’t think he pitches again this season.
I thought he would settle in to long relief by the second half. Six man rotation of Webb, Snell, Hicks, Ray, Cobb, Harrison.
With Hjelle’s success now, Winn could be odd man out or shutdown. Just give us that rotation for a couple months though!
How in the Hell can we be having this many injuries to all these key players, so early in the season ?? I don’t know who the conditioning Coach is, but he needs to be fired ASAP !! Why not just place the whole team on IR and be done with it.
Every team has injuries. The Giants don’t have the most or the most key players lost to the IL.
Maybe, but losing wade hurt a lot. They’re starting a pitcher at first basically with how Brooks and flores have been hitting. They should have brought back jd and dfa’d Brooks. I know giants fans always liked davis
Farhan zaidi needs to go giants need a real GM not someone who just talks pretty what have the giants done in the last 5 years,one good season which was luck