Giants reliever Randy Rodríguez was recognized with a flexor pressure over the weekend, tweets Andrew Baggarly of the Athletic. He’ll be shut down from throwing for 2 weeks earlier than going for additional analysis.
It’s a regarding prognosis contemplating how incessantly flexor strains function a precursor to some form of elbow surgical procedure. There’s no indication that’s into consideration for Rodríguez in the intervening time, although the workforce ought to present extra data after follow-up testing a pair weeks from now. San Francisco already positioned the rookie right-hander on the 15-day injured checklist final week.
Rodríguez, 25 subsequent month, has had a quietly robust debut marketing campaign. He has tossed 50 1/3 innings throughout 33 appearances, handing over a 3.93 ERA with encouraging peripherals. He has fanned practically 1 / 4 of batters confronted with a stable 7.6% stroll fee. Rodríguez has finished a pleasant job staying off barrels and has gotten swinging strikes at a strong 13.7% clip. Whereas he labored primarily in low-leverage spots early within the season, Rodríguez had clearly earned supervisor Bob Melvin’s belief of late. No San Francisco reliever has extra incessantly come into key spots (as measured by the sport’s leverage index) than Rodríguez because the All-Star Break.
That’s on maintain for no less than the following few weeks. With five-plus weeks on the common season schedule, there’s no assure Rodríguez makes it again this yr. Even a best-case situation the place he’s cleared to renew throwing early in September wouldn’t go away a lot time for him to construct again into recreation form. The Giants not too long ago optioned scuffling nearer Camilo Doval again to Triple-A, leaving them with Ryan Walker, Taylor and Tyler Rogers and former starter Jordan Hicks as their prime late-inning arms.
