The Orioles positioned first baseman Ryan Mountcastle on the 10-day injured listing, retroactive to Aug. 23, on Monday night. Baltimore introduced up utility infielder Livan Soto from Triple-A Norfolk in a corresponding transfer. The O’s additionally launched right-hander Nick Avila, who they’d designated for task final week.
Mountcastle departed final Thursday’s recreation with soreness in his left wrist. He sat out the ultimate three video games of Baltimore’s weekend collection with the Astros. The O’s introduced the damage as a sprain. Baltimore had a scheduled off day on Monday. Whereas it’s uncommon for a workforce to make an IL placement on an off day, there’s a three-day most for a retroactive IL stint. If the O’s had waited till tomorrow to place Mountcastle on the shelf, that may’ve delayed the retroactive begin date to Aug. 24.
That looks like a sign that it’s a minor situation. It wouldn’t be a shock if he’s again when first eligible per week from now. Baltimore will seemingly flip to Ryan O’Hearn at first base with Eloy Jimenez as designated hitter within the interim. O’Hearn is having a powerful season as the first DH. Baltimore however introduced in Jimenez in a shocking deadline swap. He has hit .304 in 18 video games because the commerce, but it’s a reasonably empty common. The previous White Sox slugger has but to hit a house run and has drawn solely a single stroll in 57 plate appearances in an O’s uniform.
Mountcastle has been however not elite presence within the Baltimore lineup for the final four-plus years. He hit 33 homers in his first full season again in 2021. Since then, he has settled in as a 20-homer kind bat. Mountcastle hits for good averages with out taking many walks, typically leading to barely lower-than-average on-base marks. It has been extra of the identical in 2024. He’s hitting .265/.305/.425 with 13 lengthy balls in 485 journeys to the plate. Regardless of the respectable general manufacturing, he has been in a significant hunch of late. Mountcastle hit .225 with a .257 OBP and no homers this month.
Avila, 27, misplaced his spot on the 40-man roster when the Orioles referred to as Cole Irvin again to the majors. Baltimore had claimed the 6-foot-4 reliever off launch waivers from the Giants in June. Avila debuted with San Francisco earlier within the season, permitting 12 runs throughout 11 2/3 innings. He didn’t attain the massive leagues with the Orioles. Avila was battling a shoulder damage on the time he was launched by San Francisco. He didn’t return from the minor league injured listing till the center of August. He has not but discovered his pre-injury type, giving up a staggering 10 runs whereas recording simply 4 outs over three appearances with Triple-A Norfolk. Avila allowed simply three earned runs per 9 in 72 Triple-A frames final season.
