Nationals heart fielder Victor Robles injured his left hamstring throughout Wednesday evening’s sport towards the Pirates. He suffered the harm working from first to 3rd on a single within the backside of the second inning. The previous high prospect was making simply his second begin of the 2024 marketing campaign. After the sport, supervisor Dave Martinez instructed reporters (together with Mark Zuckerman of MASN) that Robles would go for an MRI on Thursday.
For what it’s value, Robles, 26, has suffered hamstring accidents up to now, few of which stored him off the sector for lengthy. He handled hamstring tightness this spring (per Andrew Golden of the Washington Submit), a left hamstring cramp final summer season (h/t Zuckerman), left hamstring tightness in Might 2021 (h/t Zuckerman), a gentle proper hamstring pressure in October 2019 (h/t Zuckerman), and “hamstring hassle” in April 2017 (per Chelsea Janes of the Washington Submit). Solely the 2 earliest cases stored him off the sector for greater than a sport or two.
That mentioned, the Nationals would possibly wish to play it secure with Robles, who missed a lot of the 2023 season with again hassle. What’s extra, his pace and outfield vary are a few of his strongest instruments, and certainly Washington needs to maintain his legs as wholesome as doable. Martinez didn’t supply a lot optimism after the sport, telling reporters “I don’t wish to assume something, however [Robles] mentioned he felt it fairly good” (per Nusbaum).
If Robles misses the time, the Nationals can deliver up considered one of Alex Name or Jacob Younger, each of whom are on the 40-man roster. Name, 29, has extra massive league expertise, together with his 77 begins in heart discipline final season for Washington. Younger, 24, began solely 32 video games in heart throughout his rookie season in 2023, however he took the beginning job from Name down the stretch, hitting barely higher and offering further worth on the bases along with his 98th-percentile dash pace. Nevertheless, Name is coming off a a lot stronger spring. He posted a 1.099 OPS in 21 video games, whereas Younger produced a meager .673 OPS in 20 contests.
