The Twins positioned right-hander Jose De Leon on the 15-day injured listing attributable to a pressure in his proper flexor muscle. Righty Josh Winder was known as up from Triple-A to take De Leon’s spot on the energetic roster.
De Leon suffered the damage as he was getting ready to enter yesterday’s recreation, a 3-2 Twins loss to the Tigers. The righty was on the mound and throwing warmup pitches when he all of the sudden grabbed his arm in apparent ache after tossing his ultimate pitch. Talking with MLB.com’s Do-Hyoung Park and different reporters afterwards, De Leon mentioned his elbow had swollen and the sharp ache in his proper arm felt like an “electrical shock.”
There wasn’t any doubt that De Leon can be headed to the 15-day IL, although the total extent of the damage gained’t be recognized till he undergoes an MRI. Flexor strains can fluctuate drastically primarily based on the severity — some pitchers are capable of return to motion inside just a few weeks’ time, whereas others face the worst-case state of affairs of a Tommy John surgical procedure. De Leon is sadly no stranger to such a process, as a TJ surgical procedure value him your entire 2018 season.
That 2018 surgical procedure and another accidents fairly probably modified the course of De Leon’s total profession, as he had been a top-100 prospect over the earlier two seasons whereas pitching within the Dodgers and Rays farm programs. De Leon has since develop into a journeyman, pitching for six totally different organizations over the course of his profession. He has tossed 65 1/3 innings over components of six MLB seasons, and his 17 1/3 frames for the Twins in 2023 marks the second-highest inning whole of his huge league profession.
Minnesota signed De Leon to a minor league deal over the offseason and chosen his contract to the energetic roster in Could. He has a 4.67 ERA with respectable strikeout (24.3%) and stroll (7.1%) charges, and his 3.67 SIERA is a full run decrease than his ERA, indicating that De Leon has been a bit unfortunate together with his bottom-line outcomes. For now, nonetheless, the hope is that De Leon can get some luck and keep away from one other long-term damage setback.
