{"id":54671,"date":"2022-08-24T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/injury-notes-kopech-pasquantino-ashcraft-tigers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T06:26:10","slug":"injury-notes-kopech-pasquantino-ashcraft-tigers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/injury-notes-kopech-pasquantino-ashcraft-tigers\/","title":{"rendered":"Injury Notes: Kopech, Pasquantino, Ashcraft, Tigers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p>the <strong>White Sox<\/strong> place starter <strong>Michael Kopech<\/strong> on the 15-day injured list this afternoon due to a left knee strain.  The righty seemed to suffer the injury during warm-ups before yesterday&#8217;s start against the Royals, and his velocity was well down during the outing.  Kopech didn&#8217;t record an out, allowing two hits, a walk and a hit batsman before being taken out of an eventual 6-4 loss.  Alarming as that showing was, Daryl Van Schouwen of the Chicago Sun-Times relays that the club expects Kopech to return when first eligible two weeks from now (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CST_soxvan\/status\/1562172609881579522\">twitter link<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Even a minimal IL isn&#8217;t ideal for a Chicago team that entered play Tuesday three games back of the Guardians in the AL Central.  Kopech has been one of the club&#8217;s more effective pitchers, carrying a 3.58 ERA through 110 2\/3 innings (and a 3.25 mark if one throws out yesterday&#8217;s performance as an injury anomaly).  Kopech&#8217;s strikeout and walk numbers haven&#8217;t been as impressive, however, and there are lingering questions about precisely how many innings the 26-year-old may be equipped to throw this year.  He worked primarily in relief last season and tallied 69 1\/3 frames during his first season back after missing all of 2019-20.  He&#8217;s already eclipsed that mark by over 40 innings this year.<\/p>\n<p>Catching up on some other injury situations around the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <strong>royals<\/strong> placed rookie designated hitter\/first baseman <strong>Vinnie Pasquantino<\/strong> on the 10-day injured list due to right shoulder discomfort this afternoon.  Like Kopech, the 24-year-old was injured in yesterday&#8217;s contest between Chicago and Kansas City.  After a breakout 2021 season in the minors, Pasquantino emerged as one of the game&#8217;s top offensive prospects heading into this year.  He mashed in Triple-A and has hit the ground running as a big leaguer, carrying a .263\/.350\/.434 showing with eight home runs and an excellent combination of walks (11%) and strikeouts (13.5%) through his first 200 MLB plate appearances.  The left-handed hitter looks like a key long-term piece for a Kansas City team with its attention firmly turned towards 2023. Fellow top prospect <strong>Nick Pratto<\/strong> should pick up the first base playing time in Pasquantino&#8217;s absence, while <strong>Ryan O&#8217;Hearn<\/strong> and <strong>Hunter Dozier<\/strong> may get the majority of the DH at-bats.  Kansas City didn&#8217;t specify a timetable on Pasquantino&#8217;s return.<\/li>\n<li><strong>reds<\/strong> starter <strong>Graham Ashcraft<\/strong> landed on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to August 20, with biceps soreness.  The rookie right-hander is headed for an MRI, but skipper David Bell indicated the club was optimistic about his ability to return before the end of the season (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nightengalejr\/status\/1562171971240091649\">via Bobby Nightengale of the Cincinnati Enquirer<\/a>).  The 24-year-old made his big league debut debut in May and has joined <strong>Nick Lodolo<\/strong> and <strong>Hunter Greene<\/strong> as rookie rotation cogs for the Reds.  Through 16 starts, the hard-throwing hurler owns a 3.97 ERA on the strength of an excellent 54.8% ground-ball rate.  Ashcraft looks to have made a strong case for a rotation role next season, generally outperforming both Lodolo and Greene \u2014 each of whom has been more highly-regarded by most prospect evaluators.<\/li>\n<li>the <strong>tigers<\/strong> placed second baseman <strong>Jonathan Schoop<\/strong> on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to August 21, with a sprained right ankle.  It&#8217;s the first IL stint in two years for the veteran infielder, who has played in just under 95% of Detroit&#8217;s games since the start of 2021. Schoop posted above-average numbers last year to earn a contract extension in August, but he&#8217;s had a dreadful showing offensively this season.  Over 447 plate appearances, he&#8217;s hitting only .202\/.235\/.318 with nine home runs.  Defensive metrics have been enamored with his glovework at the keystone, but no other qualified hitter is within 19 points of Schoop&#8217;s league-worst on-base percentage.  He&#8217;s likely to exercise a $7.5MM player option this winter to return to the club for 2023.<\/li>\n<li>sticking with the <strong>tigers<\/strong>manager AJ Hinch cast doubt on the possibility of seeing catcher <strong>Jake Rogers<\/strong> this season (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyStavenhagen\/status\/1562177627997315072\">via Cody Stavenhagen of the Athletic<\/a>).  Rogers underwent Tommy John surgery last September, and he&#8217;s spent the entire year on the 60-day injured list while rehabbing.  It&#8217;s almost been a calendar year since that operation.  The 27-year-old Rogers hit .182\/.264\/.378 in 255 plate appearances between 2019-21.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- \/5067886\/300x250_2_MLB -->\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>the White Sox place starter Michael Kopech on the 15-day injured list this afternoon due to a left knee strain. The righty seemed to suffer the injury during warm-ups before yesterday&#8217;s start against the Royals, and his velocity was well down during the outing. Kopech didn&#8217;t record an out, allowing two hits, a walk and &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/injury-notes-kopech-pasquantino-ashcraft-tigers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Injury Notes: Kopech, Pasquantino, Ashcraft, Tigers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[20450,20451,20452,20453,20454],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31880,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/salvador-perez-forces-me-to-rewrite-an-entire-recap-royals-win-8-6\/","url_meta":{"origin":54671,"position":0},"title":"Salvador Perez forces me to rewrite an entire recap;  Royals win 8-6","date":"August 1, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bronx Bombers ain't got nothing on Salvy. 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