Soriano to DL, Colvin at Wrigley

[Little Slide Rooter]

Per Bruce Miles.

 

Sori only expected to miss 15 day minimum.

 

Go I Cubs!

[Guest]

presser:

CUBS PLACE OUTFIELDER ALFONSO SORIANO ON 15-DAY D.L.

RECALL OUTFIELDER TYLER COLVIN FROM TRIPLE-A IOWA

TUESDAY, MAY 31, 2011

 

CHICAGO – The Chicago Cubs today placed outfielder Alfonso Soriano on the 15-day disabled list with a left quadriceps strain and recalled outfielder Tyler Colvin from Triple-A Iowa.

 

Colvin will be available for the Cubs tonight against the Houston Astros at Wrigley Field.

 

Soriano exited yesterday’s game after injuring his quadriceps during a groundout to end the first inning. He is batting .271 (48-for-177) with a team-leading 12 home runs and 29 RBI in 49 games this season.

 

Colvin returns to the Cubs roster after spending the last two weeks in Iowa, where he batted .260 (13-for-50) with five doubles, two triples, one home run and eight RBI in 12 games.

 

The 25-year-old Colvin this season was a member of the Cubs Opening Day roster for the second year in a row and batted .113 (7-for-62) with three doubles, two home runs and eight RBI in 28 games before being optioned to Iowa on May 17. Combined between the majors and Iowa, Colvin has seen 13 of his 20 hits go for extra bases this season.

 

In 2010, Colvin spent the entire campaign at the big league level and batted .254 (91-for-358) with 20 home runs and 56 RBI in 135 games. His 20 home runs were fourth-most by a Cubs rookie in franchise history and second-most among all major league rookies last season (Florida’s Mike Stanton had 22 home runs).

[TruffleShuffle]

was the injury bug this bad in 2006? this is the worst that i can remember.

[Little Slide Rooter]

was the injury bug this bad in 2006? this is the worst that i can remember.

 

'06 was just the suck bug. I think D Lee was the only significant injury, but then again, him and Aramis were the only significant hitters on the team.

[jersey cubs fan]

was the injury bug this bad in 2006? this is the worst that i can remember.

 

This is going to be the excuse, isn't it?

 

Hendry was quoted earlier saying the injury bug wasn't as bad as 2004, so he's clearly already throwing it out there. You have a roster littered with 30-somethings that have a long history of injuries. The rotation is full of injury/surgery guys (Zambrano/Dempster), converted catchers coming off a steap incline in innings pitched the last two years and a converted reliever whose conversion was halted and then restarted without establishing any track record of long outings, and then on top of it all you strip away your depth. Injuries are going to happen.

[pitchcs]

Z doesn't really have much of an injury history, does he?

 

I think injuries can be expected, but when 2/3 the OF, 2/5 the rotation, 1/2 the bench and the starting C go to the DL it's pretty bad.

[jersey cubs fan]

Z doesn't really have much of an injury history, does he?

 

I think injuries can be expected, but when 2/3 the OF, 2/5 the rotation, 1/2 the bench and the starting C go to the DL it's pretty bad.

 

Z's been hurt at some point in time in most recent seasons. Soriano has leg problems every year. Reed Johnson has back problems every year. Jeff Baker doesn't even have to play much to get banged up. Soto gets banged up every year.

 

The only freaky injury is Byrd getting hit in the face, but he's also coming off a career year in terms of games played/PA and never should have been counted on to play every game anyway. The bottom line is 30-something athletes with leg and back issues are going to get hurt, while starting pitchers without a steady history of making every start and throwing 200 innings a season are questionable until they do it. Garza is the closest thing to a surprise pitcher issue, but after the reckless rain delay treatment it shouldn't be that surprising.

[TruffleShuffle]

was the injury bug this bad in 2006? this is the worst that i can remember.

 

This is going to be the excuse, isn't it?

 

Hendry was quoted earlier saying the injury bug wasn't as bad as 2004, so he's clearly already throwing it out there. You have a roster littered with 30-somethings that have a long history of injuries. The rotation is full of injury/surgery guys (Zambrano/Dempster), converted catchers coming off a steap incline in innings pitched the last two years and a converted reliever whose conversion was halted and then restarted without establishing any track record of long outings, and then on top of it all you strip away your depth. Injuries are going to happen.

 

look, this year's team wasn't very good on paper and is worse now, but the pitchers who have missed time are randy wells (usually healthy), cashner (hardly a 30-something with a long history of injuries) and garza (again, not injury prone or old). soto is young but has past bumps and bruises, marlon byrd was pretty healthy the last two years and got hit in the face with a pitched ball, jeff baker is only 30, reed johnson, soriano... even if one accepts that this team has older players who are more likely to break down, the number of injuries suffered in just two months is pretty crazy.

[dew1679666265]

... even if one accepts that this team has older players who are more likely to break down, the number of injuries suffered in just two months is pretty crazy.

 

To me it's not so much that guys are getting hurt, it's that so many guys are all getting hurt at the same time. Wells and Cashner were both out at the same time and as soon as Wells was about to come back, Garza goes down. Then, Byrd, Reed and now Soriano each go down and are all on the DL at the same time. Overlapping all of that is Soto's DL stint and now Baker's.

 

Injuries are going to happen, especially on an older team, but all at the same time? That's definitely some bad luck.

[jersey cubs fan]

look, this year's team wasn't very good on paper and is worse now, but the pitchers who have missed time are randy wells (usually healthy), cashner (hardly a 30-something with a long history of injuries) and garza (again, not injury prone or old). soto is young but has past bumps and bruises, marlon byrd was pretty healthy the last two years and got hit in the face with a pitched ball, jeff baker is only 30, reed johnson, soriano... even if one accepts that this team has older players who are more likely to break down, the number of injuries suffered in just two months is pretty crazy.

 

Randy Wells is a converted catcher who has been on an accelerated workload the last two years and had zero evidence of being able to handle it. Young pitchers who flirt with 200 IP for the first time are prone to problems. Andrew Cashner was a reliever who was beginning to stretch into a starter before going back to relief duty and then pushed into a starting role again. Garza is a little unlucky, but when you are already light on starting pitching and then stupidly let a guy go back in after an hour rain delay, you are playing with fire. Furthermore, they purposefully deleted all of their previous depth at the position. That is not luck, that is poor planning followed by reckless decision making.

 

Byrd is the only "unlucky" situation. The rest is par for the course.

[SouthSideRyan]

Wells being a converted catcher is a point in his favor. Less miles on his arm.

 

You're acting like the conversion happened last spring.

 

He started full-time pitching in '04, throwing ~107 innings between starting and pen per year in '04 and '05.

 

'06 he amped up to ~130.

 

'07-'08 his development was slowed by moving to the pen, and being drafted in Rule 5. (Threw ~125 in '08)

 

'09 he jumps to 190 without incident.

 

'10 he throws 195.

 

Please show me how this makes him liable to be injured (anymore than the average pitcher.)

[TruffleShuffle]

it's not like cashner wore down from overuse and abuse as a starter. he pitched 5 innings and then missed more than 2 months.

 

and again, this isn't a full season worth of injuries. this is just two months. you're acting like because some of these guys are older or injury prone, that they should all be expected to get hurt in the first 50 games of the year.

[Guancous]

All these Cubs injuries probably pushed the Super 2 deadline up a week.