Brewers Place Joey Ortiz On Injured Listing

The Brewers introduced a collection of roster strikes at present. Infielder Joey Ortiz was positioned on the 10-day injured checklist, retroactive to July 2, with neck irritation. Proper-hander Enoli Paredes landed on the 15-day IL because of proper forearm tendinitis. Infielder Vinny Capra and right-hander Janson Junk have been recalled in corresponding strikes.

Ortiz, 25, came visiting to the Brewers within the offseason trade that despatched Corbin Burnes to the Orioles, with Milwaukee additionally receiving left-hander DL Hall and a aggressive steadiness draft decide. Ortiz has made essentially the most quick impression in Milwaukee, as Corridor has spent a lot of the yr on the injured checklist and the draft has not but taken place.

Since becoming a member of the Brewers, Ortiz has taken agency maintain of the on a regular basis third base job. In 74 video games, he has stepped to the plate 256 instances, drawing a stroll in 13.7% of these whereas limiting his strikeouts to a 16.8% clip. He has seven house runs and a batting line of .269/.373/.444, which interprets to a wRC+ of 134. He’s additionally stolen 5 bases and obtained robust grades for his protection on the scorching nook, main FanGraphs to credit score him with 2.5 wins above alternative to this point this yr.

It doesn’t seem as if he’s slated for a prolonged absence. The difficulty first cropped up per week in the past and he has been out and in of the lineup since then. Speculatively talking, the truth that he didn’t instantly go on the IL and even performed by way of the problem a bit means that it’s pretty minor and he might return after a fast relaxation interval.

However it’s nonetheless lower than best for the Brewers to lose a participant of that caliber, particularly after they’ve already been hit exhausting by the harm bug. The rotation has been the worst hit, with 5 starters presently on the 60-day IL in Brandon Woodruff, Wade Miley, Robert Gasser, Joe Ross and Corridor. That prompted the membership to make a deadline deal forward of schedule by trading for Aaron Civale earlier at present. On the place participant facet of issues, Ortiz joins Gary Sánchez and Oliver Dunn on the IL.

The Brewers have been main the Central for a lot of the yr however the Cardinals have been surging of late, having pulled to inside six video games of Milwaukee. The Brewers will clearly be hoping to get Ortiz again briefly order to maintain them in that robust place because the July 30 commerce deadline will get nearer.

Andruw Monasterio has been getting a lot of the third base taking part in time just lately with Ortiz out and will maybe proceed to take action, although he’s hitting simply .196/.297/.286 on the yr. Capra will seemingly be in a multi-positional bench function, as he can play throughout however has hit .246/.333/.350 for a wRC+ of 80 in Triple-A this yr.

The membership gave outfielder Sal Frelick some third base reps throughout Spring Coaching, however Garrett Mitchell’s harm opened up outfield taking part in time for him. Mitchell was reinstated from the IL on Monday, slotting again into the outfield combine subsequent to Frelick, Christian Yelich, Jackson Chourio and Blake Perkins.

Supervisor Pat Murphy addressed the potential of Frelick returning to 3rd base this week, now that the outfield image is crowded once more. Per Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on X, Murphy mentioned it “might occur” however he wasn’t anticipating it any time quickly. It’s unclear whether or not Ortiz touchdown on the IL at present will change that framing. Monasterio is on the scorching nook in tonight’s lineup.