4:02PM: Jimenez has a Grade 2 indirect pressure and is anticipated to overlook 6-8 weeks, MLB.com’s Martin Gallegos writes (X hyperlink).
11:51AM: The A’s introduced this morning that they’ve chosen the contract of right-hander Aaron Brooks. Brooks will take the place of righty Dany Jimenez on the lively roster, who the membership positioned on the 15-day injured listing with a left indirect pressure.
Brooks, 34, signed with the A’s on a minor league deal over the winter and was referred to as up final month to assist fill out the membership’s rotation combine amid various accidents to key veterans similar to Alex Wooden, Ross Stripling, and Paul Blackburn. That first stint within the majors noticed the righty submit a 5.82 ERA with a 5.59 FIP in 21 2/3 innings of labor throughout 4 begins with a strikeout charge of simply 10% in opposition to a 6% stroll charge. Brooks discovered himself DFA’d earlier this month when right-hander Luis Medina was activated from the 60-day IL, however remained with the membership after being assigned outright to Triple-A and can now get one other alternative within the majors, albeit this time in an extended reduction function.
Regardless of his lackluster outcomes earlier this 12 months, it’s not less than possible to think about the righty exhibiting off a stronger efficiency in his second stint within the massive leagues this season. In any case, he’s a veteran of six main league seasons who has compiled 56 appearances and 32 begins within the majors throughout that point as a back-end starter and lengthy reliever who loved some success abroad whereas pitching within the Korea Baseball Group from 2020-21. He’s additionally posted a stable 4.30 ERA in 52 1/3 innings of labor on the Triple-A degree this 12 months regardless of the inflated offensive setting of the Pacific Coast League.
Brooks will take the roster spot of Jimenez, who has been an honest center reliever this season for the membership this season. In 23 2/3 innings of labor, Jimenez has pitched to a stable 3.04 ERA with an honest 20% strikeout charge. These stable outcomes have come regardless of excessive wildness, nevertheless. The best-hander has walked an eye-popping 17.1% of batters confronted this 12 months, a pattern in keeping with the righty’s profession numbers. Since making his A’s debut again in 2022, Jimenez has posted a stable 3.32 ERA (118 ERA+) however has by no means posted a stroll charge beneath 12.4% in a season, whereas strolling 14.5% of batters confronted general whereas in an Oakland uniform.
Now sidelined for the foreseeable future with an indirect pressure, Jimenez figures to work his manner again into the massive league reduction combine as soon as wholesome. With items like Lucas Erceg, T.J. McFarland, and Austin Adams more likely to appeal to curiosity from golf equipment in want of bullpen assist this summer season, it’s doable that the A’s can have loads of room for Jimenez if he returns following the commerce deadline even within the doubtless occasion that the membership holds onto celebrity nearer Mason Miller.
