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The Twins are waiting to see how reliever Sam Dyson responds to some time off to deal with repeat biceps soreness. Bos baseball officer Derek Falvey discussed the matter with reporters including Phil Miller of the Star Tribune( Twitter link ). It’s an effort to” get out ahead” of things, says Falvey. The Twins need their most significant trade deadline acquisition at top form with a major postseason conflict beckoning. Unfortunately, he hasn’t been himself since coming over. Dyson owns a 7.15 ERA in a dozen appearings in Minnesota.
More injury updates from around the game …
Giants right-hander Johnny Cueto, on the mend from 2018 Tommy John surgery, suffered a setback in his most recent rehab outing, tweets Kerry Crowley of the San Jose Mercury News. He’ll be reevaluated in the next few days but won’t be an option for the team as soon as originally hoped. Manager Bruce Bochy had previously set a tentative date of Sept. 8 on a return for Cueto, but that no longer appears to be a plausible timeline. Back tightness, rather than arm issues, has caused the revised timeline. While there’s still hope that Cueto will make it back to the big-league bump this season, the organization will surely avoid any unnecessary dangers. A few Raiders outfielders won’t return to action this year, as Jason Mackey of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports( Twitter links ). Gregory Polanco will receive platelet-rich plasma injections in a bid to spur healing in his troublesome shoulder. That’ll be a key situation to monitor in the offseason for the Pittsburgh organization. Jason Martin now has his own shoulder malady to deal with: a breakup suffered yesterday. He’s expected to miss the rest of the year. Infielder Kevin Kramer will come up to the active roster due in part to Martin’s absence. Though Bucs righty Mitch Keller was hit in the wrist with a batted ball yesterday, he was able to play catch today. his timeline isn’t clear, but that certainly seems like promising news. The Phillies got some promising report on righty reliever Seranthony Dominguez, who has at times seemed destined to miss the rest of the season. Despite a recent scare, he has shown enough presented in his shoulder health to resume shedding, administrator Gabe Kapler told reporters including Jim Salisbury of NBC Sports Philly( via tweet ). It’s still not clear that Dominguez will have enough time to ramp up and return to active duty, though perhaps there’s still an outside shot. Padre southpaw Adrian Morejon will not make it back to the bigs in 2019, Dennis Lin of The Athletic tweets. That’s not to say that the widely hailed 20 -year-old isn’t making progress. His injured shoulder is in good enough shape to allow Morejon to resume throwing. Though he strove quite a bit in limited MLB action, Morejon has generally shown all the skills that attained him a consensus top-1 00 leaguewide prospect. He’ll likely again factor into the San Diego strategy next season, though he’ll do so without much of an innings base to work from. Morejon has not yet thrown more than 65 1/3 frames in a committed campaign and fell shy of that score this year.
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