The Padres placed Ha-Seong Kim on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to August 19, with right shoulder inflammation. San Diego recalled Matthew Batten to take the open spot on the active roster.
This isn’t much of a surprise after Kim left Sunday’s game with what the team initially called a jammed shoulder. The versatile infielder dove into first base on a pickoff attempt and came up in obvious pain. Manager Mike Shildt said yesterday that the team was encouraged by the initial MRI results, but they’ll nevertheless go without their shortstop for at least a week and a half. Shildt said today that the club wasn’t especially concerned and believed Kim could’ve made it back within 10 days, but the team instead decided to play things cautiously (X link via AJ Cassavell of MLB.com).
It marks the first injured list stint of Kim’s MLB career. The South Korea native has been exceptionally durable since signing a four-year deal going into the 2021 season. He reached the 150-game plateau in both 2022 and ’23. While that won’t happen this year, he could top 140 contests if the injury proves relatively insignificant.
Kim is having his typically solid season. He’s walking enough to compensate for fringy power and carries a league average .233/.330/.370 slash in 470 plate appearances. He has swiped 22 bases on 27 attempts. San Diego committed to Kim as a full-time shortstop this season after bouncing him around the infield during his first three years. He has better than average defensive grades in more than 1000 innings at the infield’s toughest spot. Tyler Wade is taking over at shortstop in his absence.
The 28-year-old Kim is headed back to free agency next offseason. He’ll certainly decline his end of an $8MM mutual option in favor of a $2MM buyout. Kim has a shot at another four- or five-year deal that’d come with a much stronger average annual value than the $7MM he received when he was first coming over from Korea. A serious shoulder injury could naturally impact his market value. It seems he dodged a bullet with a fairly minor issue that might only sideline him for a minimal amount of time.
Clearly Bogey ain’t a SS anymore
XB was never a SS, though he played one in Bean town.
I’M SORRY GWYNNING 🙁
Awwwww, ain’t no thang Betelguise! Sounds like Ha-Seong’s gunna be ok in short order.
On a team full of very talented shortstops… we’re starting Tyler Freakin’ Wade!
Meanwhile I get to watch DJ LeMahieu continue to be an embarrassment
I halt my complaining, you win! Cheers amigo
Btw want Grisham back? I’ve seen enough of him tbh
No take-backsies!
8)
He put on a real Cooperstown worthy performance last night against Cleveland
Getting thrown out at home is embarrassing enough, let alone when you’re the pinch runner! He stopped at 3rd and wasn’t expecting to be waved home. Terrible baserunning. His pop out with 1 out in extras was the Grish we all knew. At least Soto is mashing? But his angle on Fry’s triple was “adventurous” at best. All the best, Crave-dawg!
Hope all is well big homie on the left coast. Happy that King is doing his thing in SD
The Machado contract is a disaster.
Get rid of him.
20 home runs is a disaster? And he had to return feom injury. He is getting better
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Padres found the guy on the 40 man who hits worse than Wade. Good day for Tyler.
No Eguy Rosario? Would have thought he would get the call since he has an OPS like 200 points higher than Batten at AAA…
Eguy’s going through a big swing funk right now, otherwise I also believe he would have gotten the call. No pun intended, but it looks like he’s not seeing the ball well for the past couple 2, 3 weeks.
Last 28 games – .180/.353/.583
Dipping and looping, not swinging at fastballs, poor contact, bad swings… but he’ll rebound. Could be dealing with an ailment or just plain tired.
and that’s even worse than Batten
Interesting to see that Padres choose Wade over Bogaerts/Cronenworth. The best case scenario in my mind is that Bogaerts/Cronenworth is playing at middle infield, Solano on first and Arraez DH. But clearly they might prefer to utilize Solano as bench bat to break opposing relief pitcher management (which has been successful so far).
Q – With Xander hitting a scintillating .350 over his last 30 games, probably best to let him remain locked in rather than forcing the challenge of a another position change on him.
Might be Kim’s last game with the friars
Nope, he will be back within 2 weeks
He’ll be back in 7 days actually
Make that 8 days (he returns on August 29)
“Padres Place Ha-Seong Kim On Injured List”
Sounds like a Dodger already
The Pads are learning from the masters of the 10 day IL. 2 days to recover from injury, 8 days of rest, sounds like a Dodger yep!
Dude rips heaters midgame, legend
After this season the Padres owe Xander Bogaerts another $229M. That’s crazy. He’s going to be a 1 -2 WAR player (per season) over the next 9 years and they are paying $25.45M per season for that.
People used to get sent down carrying a .233 average. Now that’s considered average… crazy
I also remember when pitchers went 200 plus innings a season generally but obviously the game has changed.
Of course a big injury for the Padres just when the scumbag buy-everyone-in-sight Dodgers are getting healthy