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In the normal schedule for our five weekly Emails, the Wednesday Emails contain Injury Updates, including our Due Dates feature to let you know when to begin looking for key players to return to their lineup.
Kinsler looks ready to go
In addition to losing two starters, LHP Jorge De La Rosa (hand injury, for up to five weeks) and RHP Jason Hammel (strained right groin) to injuries, the Rockies also learned that LHP Jeff Francis’ return from a shoulder injury will be delayed until mid-May. They originally had hoped he could pitch for them this week. There’s some better news for Colorado. In an extended spring training game, RHP Taylor Buchholz (elbow) threw 36 pitches and 2B/SS Omar Quintanilla (sprained left knee) played the entire game. RHP Huston Street (shoulder) threw 20 pitches in Tucson. Hammel and Street are expected back in mid-May, Buchholz not until mid-June.
I saw all three of Rangers 2B Ian Kinsler’s injury-rehab games at Double-A Frisco. He certainly appeared able to play and ready to return to the parent team. Returning from a high ankle sprain, Kinsler appeared to move as he normally does – tracking down grounders to his right much better than those to his left, and stealing a base in his final rehab game. He played all 27 innings at second base. At bat, he was neither exceptional nor deficient. Playing for a team struggling to score runs, Kinsler had two run-scoring singles in his final game for the RoughRiders, leading to a 4-2 victory over San Antonio (Padres organization).
The Pirates are hoping RHP Ross Ohlendorf (back) can return to start Friday, May 7, against the Cardinals.
Questionable for this weekend’s games are Brewers OF Jim Edmonds (back), Athletics C Kurt Suzuki (left side), Dodgers SS Rafael Furcal (hamstring), Royals CF Rick Ankiel (quadriceps), Marlins OF Cody Ross (foot, flu) and Padres SS Everth Cabrera. Giants 2B/3B Jose Uribe (elbow) is expected to be ready only to pinch hit.
Twins C Joe Mauer played despite having fluid drained from his right big toe, hit by a foul ball Tuesday, but 1B Justin Morneau was out of Minnesota’s lineup.
Phillies RHP Brad Lidge (knee, elbow) pitched two scoreless innings Tuesday in his injury-rehab assignment at Double-A Reading. His fastball reached 93 mph, and Lidge said he was “ready to go.” RHP Joe Blanton (strained left oblique) could return to Philadelphia’s rotation Tuesday despite giving up five runs in five innings of a rehab start for Reading.
The Red Sox are planning to have RHP Daisuke Matsuzaka come off the disabled list to make his 2010 debut starting Saturday’s game at Baltimore.
Diamondbacks RHP Kris Benson (shoulder) is listed as doubtful for his scheduled start Monday at Houston.
Due dates
Instead of giving you the entire list of when players are expected to return from the disabled list or an injury, we’ll let you know the due dates for players whose status has changed. Remember that any time a players’ anticipated return date is pushed back, that could be a sign of greater short-term and longer-term problems for that player. Especially dangerous are pitchers’ forearm injuries, which often foreshadow Tommy John surgery.
Delayed from late April to mid-May – Phillies SS Jimmy Rollins (calf)
From early May to mid-May – Orioles 2B Brian Roberts (back), White Sox C Ramon Castro (heel), Indians RHP Kerry Wood (back), Twins C Jose Morales (wrist) and LHP Jose Mijares (elbow), Yankees RHP Chan Ho Park (hamstring), Athletics OF Coco Crisp (finger) and 2B Mark Ellis (hamstring), Blue Jays 3B Edwin Encarnacion (shoulder) and LHP Brian Tallet (forearm), Nationals C Chris Coste (elbow) and 1B/OF Mike Morse (calf) and Padres RHP Chris R. Young (shoulder).
Expected back in mid-May from a new injury – Rockies OF Brad Hawpe (quadriceps), Tigers OF/3B Carlos Guillen (hamstring), Marlins LHP Dan Meyer (calf), Angels C Bobby Wilson (concussion, ankle), Dodgers OF Manny Ramirez (calf), Twins 2B/3B Nick Punto (groin, hip), Athletics OF Travis Buck (oblique), Pirates RHP Chris Jakubauskas (concussion), Rangers OF Nelson Cruz (hamstring) and Nationals RHP Garrett Mock (neck).
Delayed from mid-May to late May – Braves OF Jordan Schafer (hand), Indians RHP Anthony Reyes (triceps), Brewers 3B/2B Mat Gamel (shoulder), Mets CF Carlos Beltran (knee) and Nationals RHP Jason Marquis (elbow).
Back from a new injury in late May – Athletics LHP Brett Anderson (forearm) and Cardinals SS/3B Felipe Lopez (elbow).
From mid-May to early June – Rays OF Matt Joyce (elbow).
Back from a new injury in early June – Dodgers RHP Vicente Padilla (forearm) and Athletics RHP Joey Devine (elbow).
From early June to mid-June – Twins RHP Clay Condrey (elbow).
From early August to possibly the remainder of the season, possibly forever – Dodgers C Brad Ausmus (back).
Delayed from early May to out for the season – Royals 3B Josh Fields.
Minor matters
Orioles RHP Chris Tillman pitched the first nine-inning no-hitter in the minors this season in Triple-A Norfolk’s 6-0 victory over Gwinnett (Braves). He threw 105 pitches, with a pitching line of 900016. He could be in Baltimore’s rotation before long.
In closing
This is a regular feature of our Emails and blog posts. It lets you know who’s getting saves. Equally important is telling you who’s blowing saves or putting his job in jeopardy by getting shaky saves. There’s also a FREE Article on the old fantasybaseballscout.com web site letting you know which pitcher or pitchers each team is using to close games. It will be updated whenever there’s a change or speculation about a change in a team’s closer.
The most action for would-be closers came in the Phillies’ 7-6, 11-inning victory at San Francisco. The Giants’ starter, RHP Tim Lincecum, left the game with one out and a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the ninth inning. San Francisco’s closer blew a save when Philadelphia RF Jayson Werth hit an opposite-field, three-run double down the right field line. RHP Ryan Madson, closing games while Lidge is on the disabled list, blew a save after the Phils had taken a lead in the 10th. Then in the 11th, RHP Nelson Figueroa, who had been starting, survived with a save despite a pitching line of 131100. Giants RF Nate Schierholtz drove in that run with a double – his fifth hit of the day, raising his average to .378, five points higher than 3B/1B Pablo Sandoval’s .373.
A night after RHP Frank Francisco had earned a save, Rangers RHP Neftali Feliz, received a shaky save in a 6-5 victory over the White Sox. Feliz’s line was 132200.
RHP Juan Gutierrez was credited with a save in another wild game, the Diamondbacks’ 12-11 win at Colorado in 11 innings. Before that, Arizona had blown a 6-0 lead and the Rockies let an 11-6 advantage drift away.
Red Sox RHP Jonathan Papelbon’s seventh save came in a 2-0 victory at Toronto, but it also came with a concern. He revealed that one reason he was unavailable to save Tuesday’s game was that he had a sore lower back. Papelbon’s condition could become another factor leading Boston in the wrong direction this season.
Also receiving saves were Nationals RHP Matt Capps, a major league-leading 10th, 3-2 at Wrigley Field; Mariners RHP David Aardsma, eighth, 6-5 at Kansas City, and Padres RHP Heath Bell, sixth, 6-4 at Florida.
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