MASH Report (6/29/15)
• Giancarlo Stanton is expected to be out four to six weeks with fractured hamate bone.
“From everything we’ve gotten, surgery was a success,” Marlins manager Dan Jennings said. “Now you just go through the healing process to have him back. From what we’ve been told, you’re looking at about a 4-6 week window, recovery time.”
I am not sure I completely buy a quick return time. It seems to be four to six weeks to recover from the break. Then, he will need to build up his game strength. I bet his return is closer to the six to eight weeks with a chance he doesn’t play again this season once Miami is out of the playoff pitcture.
• Anthony Rendon is back on the DL, this time with a strained quad.
This marks the second trip to the disabled list this season for Rendon, who missed the first 52 games of the season because of a left knee sprain and left oblique strain. Rendon hurt his quad in the sixth inning this past Saturday after an RBI double against the Pirates.
“I felt it coming out of the box and then I had to score on [Bryce] Harper’s single,” Rendon said. “I wanted to play through it.”
Rendon played the next three games with the injury. He had an MRI recently and “it showed some pretty good changes in [the quad],” manager Matt Williams said.
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“The good part about the injury, he can keep his swing, keep his timing as much as possible although it’s just BP,” Williams said. “He will stay with us during the road trip and get some work done. Hopefully, it’s just for a couple of weeks.”
He is quickly falling into the talented, but injured bin with the likes of teammate Ryan Zimmerman and Carlos Gonzalez.