In case you missed it, Angels outfielder Jo Adell pulled a Jose Canseco on Tuesday against the Rockies (video via MLB).
1. Judge seeing specialist for rib injury
Yankees outfielder Aaron Judge is heading for additional tests with a team specialist on the bone bruise in his ribcage, manager Aaron Boone told reporters (h/t Bryan Hoch of MLB.com). Boone described the injury as shoulder soreness that Judge had been playing through for weeks, which then became more painful over the weekend. Hoch added in a separate post that while the official diagnosis is a ribcage injury, Judge feels the pain in his shoulder. The reigning MVP hit just .243 last month. His .805 OPS in May was his worst mark for a full month since July 2021.
2. Gleyber homers in return
Tigers second baseman Gleyber Torres missed nearly a month with an oblique strain. He came back on Tuesday against the Rays and immediately made an impact. Torres golfed a 3-1 sinker from Steven Matz over the left-center wall for a leadoff home run. It’s the second straight day with a recently returning player hitting a homer for Detroit. The club got outfielder Kerry Carpenter back on Sunday. He picked up a hit in that contest, then went 3-for-5 with a solo shot on Monday. The Tigers have shaken off a four-game losing streak to take the first two from the AL East-leading Rays.
3. Harrison dominates again
Brewers left-hander Kyle Harrison fired 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball last night against the Giants. He piled up a career-high 12 strikeouts. Harrison is two outs short of qualifying for the ERA title, but he’d be second in the league behind only Cristopher Sanchez if he had enough innings. The lefty is forming a terrifying duo with right-hander Jacob Misiorowski. Harrison and The Miz are the first teammates since 1913 with a minimum of 10 starts apiece to have sub-2.00 ERAs and at least 11 strikeouts per nine innings this deep into the season (h/t OptaSTATS on X).
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Gambling is illegal at Bushwood, sir!
And I never slice.
Okay you can owe me!
Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too! 🤣
Is that what this is about? His heritage? Ease up will ya.
You know I’ve often thought of becoming a golf club
I don’t know who should feel worse about losing Harrison & Tibbs, the Giants or the Red Sox.
lol everyone was saying similar doomsdaying about Quinn Priester but that talk has hushed since he’s accumulated a 20+ era in the minors. Let’s see if these guys can succeed for longer than a month before we punch their tickets to the HOF, shall we? Or in Tibbs case, maybe until he actually does literally anything in the major leagues?
Sack – Priester is trying to come back from a serious injury, he’s not in the minors because of poor performance in the majors. He did incredibly well last year in the majors.
…and if Priester can’t come back to form and only had one good year after the trade, he is not a big loss.
FPG, Priester is injured because of an idiotic 157 innings when he had never pitched more than 50. Teams never learn. It’s just stupid how pitchers are being almost intentionally injured.
hayzee – Crochet says hello!
Yup. Like I said, teams (as in all of them) never learn.
Pitched 150 innings in 2023 and 120 innings in 2024, including the minors. It’s just stupid how the Red Sox keep trading good pitchers to the Brewers (including Drohen along with Harrison this year).
ESL: Agreed. Entering this season, Baseball America knocked Tibbs down to a 40 grade prospect and downgraded his ceiling to “second-division regular corner outfielder.”
Tibbs it is definitely playing above their assessment thus far.
Fan – I don’t know which assessment you’re referring to, but I do know some sites erroneously assessed Tibbs based on his performance with the Red Sox organization …. which of course is a huge mistake. He didn’t suck because of a lack of talent, he sucked because the Red Sox player development – especially for position players – sucks at the higher levels.
I was responding to the post from suit regarding the assessment of Tibbs. I haven’t watched or paid much attention to the minor league guys, since they are mostly blocked unless something crazy happens.
I thought them giving Ward a shot at playing time was a mix of showing appreciation of his time with the org, and showcasing him for a potential trade later. He doesn’t fit the Dodgers timeline, so he might be the next Michael Busch. A very good player for someone else.
Fan – Ahh, we’ve muted him. Yeah I agree Tibbs has been incredible, any other organization and he’d have been called up long ago. Dodgers figure why not hold back his service time.
Another Dodgers Fan: The Pacific Coast League is known for inflating offensive stats due to high altitudes, heat and dry air. For example, the Red Sox used to have a team in Lancaster. They had a prospect named Lars Anderson there who was on fire, drawing rave reviews and getting on the cover of Baseball America. He left Lancaster and was never that good again. So, I’m not jumping on the Tibbs bandwagon yet. Not many people have me muted. FPG is one of a few who does because I call out his garbage. It’s fine with me to not talk to someone like him. Watch him and you will see how he twists things, exaggerates things and makes things up to try to bash the Red Sox. I’m not the only one who points it out.
Was that a Royal We?
Yeah, Red Sox fans were saying the same things about Campbell last year and Anthony and Mayer this year, right?
Oh, and there’s been a ton of restraint about Early and Tolle too!
I’ll assume the Dodgers in house evaluations are better than anything else on the market regarding their own players. The pcl has always been a hitters league. But that doesn’t mean every stat is inflated.
We’ll see how it plays out. He’s not likely to impact the big club this year, unless he’s traded for a nice piece.
I was watching it as it happened. Jo Adell’s miss was not as bad as Jose Canseco’s. Canseco’s hit him directly in the head and bounced over the wall. Adell’s ricocheted off his glove, then his head, then went over the wall. It was just one of those dumb luck things that could only happen to someone that the baseball gods gifted with three robbed homers in the same game earlier this season.
Boone described the injury as shoulder soreness that Judge had been playing through for weeks, which then became more painful over the weekend.
Arrogance, stupidity and karma. Ask. Will we ever get a straight answer from this clown car of an organization?
“bone bruise in his ribcage”
Sure sounds like a shoulder injury.
Good lord, the incompetence.
Uhhh, I don’t think you know what a bone bruise is. Maybe trying educating yourself a little before you spout off the next time.
In the spirit of Jobu’s advice I checked the official manual of internet commenting and found this: “always spout off first”.
Like they say, the rubs are the shoulders of the lower torso.
hayzee – I swear it’s the Red Sox Curse …. so many star players have gone on the IL right before their team played the Sox. Truly spooky.
Boondoggle’s record of diagnosing injuries is surely so impressive.
Calling any other team a “clown car of an organization” as a Red Sox fan is next level projection
Harrison & The Miz sounds like a buddy cop show from the 80s that would have been cancelled after 3 episodes.
But it shouldn’t have been cancelled!
Posey and Giants sure got handed their pie in the face, now let see if Tibbs III can add some more — Giants just are not making wise choices. Devers 0-4 3k sure didnt help either
But for sanity, I think it says a lot more about their personnel in development of their players that they see their former players doing well when they cannot seem to judge nor develop themselves.
Their developing just fine.
The fact that the Red Sox preferred Birdsong and took no time at all in trading the 2 guys in question says everything you need to know about their status at that time. It’s a nice thing turn of events cry about though. I’ll give you that. I hope it makes you feel better.
Canseco only used his head. Adell used his glove AND his head. It’s gotta be Adell for the best ever.
Yankees should give Judge a 15-day IL stint. Need the big guy to be good to go for the rest of the season, and playing him hurt isn’t a good plan.
Gosh, really?
Every harmless post doesn’t need to attacked
I agree dixon. I noticed a long time ago the ones who do the attacking and talk to people like they’re stupid actually believe everybody is stupid. I’ve made comments about the simplest things and to them that’s their queue to step up and belittle and act superior with their comments. Lotta crazy people on here.
“Playing him hurt isn’t a good plan”, but that’s what the Yankees went ahead and did. They are the stupid ones here.
There is a lot of stupid people who attack other people.
Wouldn’t Ohtani lead the ERA race with a few more innings to qualify? Ahead of Sanchez and Harrison.
If ifs and buts were beer and nuts we’d all have a merry Christmas.
With hitters they can just add the necessary at bats with 0 hits and see the results. There’s no such option for pitchers so you just have to wait and see.
But yes, you’re right BigFred.
Ohtani needs 7 innings tonight to qualify….
Boy I sure do hate the Yankees, but Judge having “only” an OPS of .805 and it being his worst month in six years is simply amazing.
That would be the 2nd time that has happened to Adell now. Happened to him in Texas as well.
Now that is the story that needed to be told!
I gave up on Harrison too soon in my keeper league. I know how the Giants and Red Sox feel!
In a completely different subject comment then what today’s opener section is about I’m sick and tired of these relievers getting cheap saves in blowout games so I googled the rule and this is what I found 1) the lead rule in order for him to get a save it must be 3 runs or less and he must pitch 1 full inning 2) the tying rule he gets a save if the winning run is on base at bat or on deck 3) the multi inning rule which is the 1 that upsets me the most which is the pitcher pitches at least 3 innings and they get a save this last option should be changed to a win for the pitcher instead of a save last night for example there were 2 saves given in blowout games 8-0 Tigers but not sure what the other one was and the Yankees and Dodgers last week also got saves in blowout victories 15-1 & 15-6
I will sign your petition sir.
Advice for the Red Sox – if the Brewers call? Don’t answer. Block that number. Thanks.
Gary Sanchez for Roman Anthony???
Lol@Judge