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Woodruff and Burnes one of the best 1-2 starters in MLB right now.Comment -
Padres left-hander Adrian Morejon will undergo Tommy John surgery, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. He’ll miss the rest of this season and likely a sizable portion of next year as a result.
Morejon last appeared for the Padres on April 11, when he departed a start against the Rangers during the first inning with a left forearm strain. A Tommy John procedure looked like a realistic possibility for the 22-year-old at that point, and that’s unfortunately the route he will have to take.
Morejon, a Cuba native, signed an eyebrow-raising $11MM bonus with the Padres in 2016 and has since ranked among Baseball America’s top 100 prospects on an annual basis. However, Morejon hasn’t yet taken on a significant workload during a professional season, having never thrown more than 65 1/3 innings in an individual year. He combined for 27 1/3 major league innings as a swingman from 2019-20 before earning a rotation spot heading into this season with 14 frames of 3.21 ERA ball and 17 strikeouts in spring training. But Morejon’s 2021 will now end after just two starts and 4 2/3 innings.
The season-long loss of Morejon is obviously a blow to the Padres’ depth, but the team is still in enviable shape in its rotation. Yu Darvish, Blake Snell, Joe Musgrove, Dinelson Lamet, Chris Paddack and Ryan Weathers are their top options in the majors, and elite prospect MacKenzie Gore could debut sometime this season.Comment -
As defense and pitching looking goodComment -
Padres will win this next series for sure.Comment -
10:50 pm: Lamet is presently considered day-to-day but he’ll head for an MRI to determine the extent of the injury, manager Jayce Tingler told reporters (including Craig Elsten of 619 Sports and Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune).
4:18 pm: Padres right-hander Dinelson Lamet made his much-anticipated 2021 debut on Wednesday against the Brewers, but it didn’t last long. Lamet left with forearm tightness after two innings and 29 pitches, the team announced.
Lamet spent the past several months recovering from a UCL strain – an injury that brought a premature end to his breakout 2020 season. Prior to Wednesday, he hadn’t taken the mound for the Padres since Sept. 25 of last year. The hard-throwing Lamet ended last season with stellar numbers – a 2.09 ERA/3.16 SIERA with a 34.8 percent strikeout rate in 69 innings – and could help form an elite foursome alongside Yu Darvish, Blake Snell and Joe Musgrove if he’s able to recover quickly and stay healthy for the remainder of the season. Of course, that’s now up in the air in light of Wednesday’s news, which is especially troubling when considering Lamet previously underwent Tommy John surgery in 2018.
If Lamet does have to miss more time, it would be the second shot to the Padres’ starting depth this week. The team learned Tuesday that lefty Adrian Morejon, who began the year in their rotation, will undergo TJ surgery. Even without Lamet and Morejon, San Diego could still form a capable five-man starting staff with Darvish, Snell, Musgrove, Chris Paddack and Ryan Weathers. However, there’s no doubt the Padres are a better team with a healthy Lamet, who finished fourth in National League Cy Young voting in 2020.Comment -
Cubs bats finally break outComment -
They're really scuffling but it wouldn't surprise me if they broke out for a boatload of runs and pitched lights out next series even though its against the rival Dodgers because they're too talented and that's how baseball is sometimes. Still way too early to write the Padres off.Comment -
Lamet left after 2 innings with forearm tightness...not a good sign at all and is getting an MrI today.
What a complete nightmare start to the season.Comment -
The Padres still have 5 good to decent starters.Comment -
Padres and Cubs pulling some Houdini acts tonight!Comment -
9:55pm: Trout suffered a left elbow contusion, the team announced.
9:25pm: Angels center fielder Mike Trout exited their game against the Astros on Thursday in the fifth inning. Trout left shortly after the Astros’ Cristian Javier struck him in the left elbow with a 93 mph fastball in the fourth inning. The Angels replaced Trout with Scott Schebler.
There is no word on whether Trout departed because of an injury or if the Angels simply took him out as a precautionary measure. The Angels were trailing 7-0 when they lifted Trout, so the team may have just been playing it safe when it removed him. Considering Trout’s importance to the Angels and the baseball world as a whole, the hope is that he didn’t suffer a serious injury on the hit by pitch.
Even though Trout is only 29 years old, he has already cemented himself as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport. If healthy, the three-time American League Most Valuable Player looks as if he’ll find himself in the MVP race yet again this season. Seventy plate appearances into his year, Trout has batted an incredible .393/.514/.804 (258 wRC+) with six home runs and a major league-best 1.6 fWAR.Comment -
Astros was a popular pick last nightComment -
Lamet feeling better...I'm praying he does not need Tommy John surgeryComment -
I don't know how the Padres got out of that bases loaded jam in the 8th. Sucks that I bet the Dodgers -1 and when I'm on them they finally don't get any runs. They're such a good offense that you almost expect them to score a boatload of runs every night. Great pitching by the Pads to get back in the win column after a tough series against the Brew crew.Comment -
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KC the other night too.
I've been saying it all along, KC will win the 9-8 games but winning 9-8 games is not the recipe for a championship.Comment -
Trout will be ok.Comment -
This is very true baseball is and always will be a marathon not a sprint. Just because your team isn't doing good in April and May doesn't mean it can't all come together by the time August and September roll around. Whereas in the NFL if you start 1-3 or 2-2 your season is in danger of going down the tubes before you even hit the halfway mark.Comment -
Hope you guys listened to me and bet the Padres this series!Comment -
Padres right-hander Dinelson Lamet left his season debut Wednesday with forearm soreness and quickly went on the 10-day injured list, leading to concerns that he could require a second Tommy John surgery. A couple days later, those worries seem to be fading. Lamet went through his typical post-start routine Friday, Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes, and manager Jayce Tingler called it “a positive day” for the 2020 Cy Young contender. If all goes according to plan over the next week-plus, Lamet could return from the IL when he’s first eligible on May 2.
Now for a few American League updates…
- Center fielder George Springer may finally be on the cusp of his Blue Jays debut. Manager Charlie Montoyo told Ben Nicholson-Smith of Sportsnet and other reporters on Friday afternoon that there is “a chance” the Blue Jays will activate Springer on Sunday. The three-time All-Star then got through a sim game at the team’s alternate site without any problems, per Montoyo (via Shi Davidi of Sportsnet). An oblique strain and then a quad strain have prevented Springer from suiting up for Toronto, which signed the ex-Astro to a six-year, $150MM contract in free agency.
- Rays righty Chris Archer has already missed two weeks because of forearm tightness, and a return is not imminent. Archer is likely a couple more weeks from rejoining the Rays’ rotation, manager Kevin Cash revealed (via Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times). Even though he endured a disastrous 2019 with the Pirates and then missed all of last season because of thoracic outlet surgery, Tampa Bay reunited with Archer – previously a Ray from 2012-18 – on a one-year, $6.5MM deal in free agency. The gamble hasn’t paid off so far, as Archer didn’t complete three innings in either of the two starts he made before he hit the IL.
- Rangers catcher prospect Sam Huff will undergo surgery to remove a “loose body” from his right knee next Wednesday, Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News relays. The injury will sideline Huff for eight weeks and could prevent him from catching this season. The 23-year-old – MLB.com’s 68th-ranked prospect – produced eye-popping results during a 10-game, 33-plate appearance major league debut in 2020, when he slashed .355/.394/.742 with three home runs. Huff hadn’t even played above the High-A level when the Rangers promoted him last September.
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Tatis is starting to heat up
Also one of the few times I agree with JMobile, Tommy Pham needs to get benched. Not sure what happened to him since he became a Padre but the guy looks done to me. Padres would be much better off with Profar or anyone else taking his spot.Comment -
Did not bet the series but had Darvish at a very nice +133 price last night.
And I think I'm going to ride SD again today.
And I'll keep riding my first place Royals too as they just keep winning.
Winning ugly, but winning.
And while I'm riding teams I'm going to ride Oakland one more time today,
Can't fade a 12 game win streak, as the immortal Crash Davis once said "respect the streak"Comment -
When he got down in the crouch and caught Wood's first pitch, Buster Posey became the first in Giants history to catch 1,000 games. Of the 16 teams that were part of the pre-expansion era, the Giants and the Twins were the only ones without a 1,000-game catcher.Comment -
The KC Royals signed Sal Perez in 2006 when he was 16 years old as an amateur free agent.
He spent 4 years in the KC farm system before making his MLB big league debut in 2011 as a 21 year old.
He's now in his tenth MLB season all with KC (well duh)
From 2011 to 2021 Sal Perez has played (appeared) in 998 MLB games.
925 of those 998 games he was behind the plate.
He is to KC what Mauer was to Minnesota, what Posey is to SF, what Molina is to the Cards.
Great catchers are a dying breed.
I know, I was one, a catcher, not a great one, but I know.Comment
