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Giants Place Robbie Ray On Injured List

By Darragh McDonald | August 27, 2024 at 1:34pm CDT

The Giants have placed left-hander Robbie Ray on the 15-day injured list with a left hamstring strain. Right-hander Landen Roupp has been recalled in a corresponding move. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle was among those to relay the transaction on X.

Ray, 32, was acquired in the offseason with an eye toward the former AL Cy Young winner serving as a second-half reinforcement in the rotation. He underwent Tommy John surgery early in the 2023 season and was subsequently shelved through late July.

While Ray wowed with five no-hit innings and eight punchouts against the Dodgers in his return on July 24, he’s lasted a combined 25 2/3 innings across his next six starts and posted an ERA north of 5.00 in that time. Overall, he’s sitting on a 4.70 earned run average with a hefty 33.3% strikeout rate against a problematic 11.6% walk rate in 30 2/3 frames. He’s also served up six long balls — an untenable average of 1.76 homers per nine innings.

When or whether Ray returns in 2024 remains to be seen, but the Giants still have him signed for another two seasons. Ray actually has the right to opt out of his contract at season’s end, but he’s guaranteed $25MM in each of the next two seasons. Given Ray’s shaky performance on the heels of Tommy John rehab, and now a hamstring injury, it seems likely he’ll forgo that right and take the remaining two-year, $50MM guarantee on his deal.

The hope, of course, will be that Ray can return to form next season — if not all the way to his 2021 Cy Young form then at least to his 2022 levels, when he pitched 189 innings of 3.71 ERA ball for the Mariners while showing an appealing K-BB profile. That’d position him to join Logan Webb, Kyle Harrison and perhaps young arms like Hayden Birdsong and Carson Whisenhunt in the San Francisco rotation.

In the short-term, the Giants will go with a rotation featuring Webb, Harrison, Birdsong and the resurgent Blake Snell. It’s not clear who’ll step into the fifth spot in Ray’s absence. Not long after the trade deadline, when discussing the decision not to move Snell, Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi opined that the Giants possessed the best starting staff in the sport. Perhaps the Giants are indeed among the most talented groups, but it’s a top-heavy unit lacking depth and consistency — and Ray’s injury only underscores that.

Mason Black, Kai-Wei Teng and Trevor McDonald are all on the 40-man roster, but none has found any big league success (or even pitched especially well in Triple-A this year, for that matter). The Giants are also no stranger to patching things over with bullpen games and could go that route, particularly if Ray is only expected to require a short-term stay on the injured list.

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  1. sad tormented neglected mariners fan

    11 months ago

    At least the giants got a few decent starts from him this year, but those starts are not worth that contract

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    • Blackpink in the area

      11 months ago

      You hope Ray will be fully recovered and effective. There are good reasons why teams don’t trade for injured players often.

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      • JoeBrady

        11 months ago

        Ray has pitched well enough to think he will have some success in 25/26. The 12.6 K9 is impressive. I can see him as a 12th-14th rounder in my draft next year.

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      • Blackpink in the area

        11 months ago

        He’s got an ERA and FIP barely under 5 in 2024. That’s not good. Hopefully he’s fully healthy in 2025.

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  2. MLB Top 100 Commenter

    11 months ago

    Sad tormented

    I have a different take.

    Giants are out of it. Protect their investment for next year.

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  3. SewaldSwansonSwoon

    11 months ago

    Stupid comment

    3
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    • Pete'sView

      11 months ago

      Not if you’ve watched the Giants for multiple seasons of Farhan’s tenure.

      2
      Reply
    • SewaldSwansonSwoon

      11 months ago

      “Get nerds out of baseball” = clown

      Reply
    • SewaldSwansonSwoon

      11 months ago

      Found the child

      Reply
  4. Guayacon

    11 months ago

    Fire Farhan and Bob Melvin

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  5. Clofreesz

    11 months ago

    What happened to Robbie after 2021?

    Reply
  6. tedtheodorelogan

    11 months ago

    Doesn’t really matter at this point. Giants season ended a few weeks ago when they dropped 3 out of 4 to the Braves.

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  7. davemlaw

    11 months ago

    Ray’s hammie seized up on him. If SFG are still within striking distance of a wild card spot bring him back. If not, save him for next year.
    Cy Young 2025

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    • Datashark

      11 months ago

      AZ and/or SD would have to tank very hard for SF to come into race

      SF Sept is full of playoff caliber teams

      Reply
      • JoeBrady

        11 months ago

        I assumed that the Braves would be the target?

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        • Datashark

          11 months ago

          they face AZ and SD 12 times altogether

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  8. Datashark

    11 months ago

    Ray season is over — at least it better be because they are not making playoffs.

    So Rotation is Webb, Snell, Harrison (pitch limit), Birdsong (pitch limit), Pray for Rain.

    Options they might use Black, Bivens, or (pitch limit) Hicks

    I figure they are close to waiving white flag officially.

    Farhan – he knows how to build a mediocre team.

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  9. Lloyd Emerson

    11 months ago

    Robbie Ray – World’s loudest grunter.

    Reply
    • Clofreesz

      11 months ago

      But-but- Doesn’t grunting increase velocity?

      (Although there are some questionable ones.)

      Reply
    • el_chapo_

      11 months ago

      Zack greinke was pretty bad as well.

      Reply
    • Brew88

      11 months ago

      Lloyd you clearly haven’t heard Maria Sharapova during set 3

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  10. Blackpink in the area

    11 months ago

    You can’t predict injuries but this guy was hurt when they traded for him.

    Reply
  11. orangenblackattack

    11 months ago

    There’s also a guy named Jordan Hicks who began this year as a starter. Wouldn’t he be an option? Even at 3-4 innings to start a game?

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    • Jerry Hairston Jr's Toupee

      11 months ago

      Not when he’s joining Ray on the IL….

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  12. DodgersBro

    11 months ago

    MLBTR

    “Get nerds out of baseball.

    Stupid comment

    Only stupid one here is you little one”

    Love the high quality discourse here at MLBTR

    Reply
  13. foppert2

    11 months ago

    The bullpen game record is really good. There are better things to cry about.

    Reply
    • foppert2

      11 months ago

      I know all that, Princess.
      But the point remains, the record is good.

      I think they should get little sooks out of baseball fandom. The nerds are way tougher.

      Reply
  14. bestone

    11 months ago

    Maybe needs to tighten up the pants a bit more to support the hammies…

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