The Dayton Dragons have placed catcher Tyler Stephenson back onto the disabled list with a left wrist sprain. The 19-year-old catcher went 0-2 with two strikeouts and a sacrifice on Thursday night. He was the designated hitter in the game, but was pinch hit for later in the game.
The left wrist is the same wrist that he injured earlier this season that caused him to miss a month of time, so it’s probably not the best sign of things that he has re-injured it while hitting. It’s his third trip to the disabled list this year. He suffered an injury in April and missed several weeks before returning. He didn’t last more than a few weeks before suffering the first wrist injury later on in May.
After a slow start to the season he had really been hitting well since returning from the injury. Between the Arizona League Reds, where he spent five days rehabbing, and just over a week with the Dayton Dragons he posted a .318/.388/.500 line. He had started to show some power, hitting two doubles and two home runs in that span and also walked four times.
Other news and notes
Alfredo Rodriguez went 0-2 with an RBI earlier today for the Dominican Summer League Reds, but he was also hit by a pitch. He was removed from the game and replaced with a pinch runner. At this point I don’t know if there’s an injury or if it was just a situation where he will be day-to-day. If he’s missing over the next few days I will be sure to look into it.
If you missed the Minor League Game Review this morning, well, you didn’t. I missed it. When I got back to my hotel last night after the game here in Pensacola my laptop wouldn’t start up. I tried again this morning and it was pretty much the same thing. If I had to guess, I think the SSD failed. After trying to re-install Windows to no avail I hit up Best Buy this afternoon to get a Chromebook. Hopefully it will carry things over until I return home and can take my laptop to Microcenter and get it fixed. I am not having any luck whatsoever this year when it comes to traveling with laptops. Two trips of more than two hours this year and two laptops that ceased to work upon the return home, or while gone.