Minnesota Twins appropriate fielder Michael Cuddyer was placed on the 15-day list Sunday. The foundation of his second time on the mantelpiece this time of year to let a lasting member wound heal.
This time, Cuddyer has a strained tendon in his left indicator finger that’s causing sufficient pain to avert him from by the book mesmerizing the bat or totally bending the cipher. He has played through the soreness for more than two but was incompetent to Saturday or Sunday. Cuddyer said he took a swing that sent him “over the edge” in Friday’s game.
“He’s handsome irritated, to tell you the truth,” manager Ron Gardenhire said.
Outfielder Denard Span, who yoked the Twins in April when Cuddyer cut and the symbol slice on his moral hand during a headfirst transparency, will be recalled from Triple-A Rochester in time to play Monday against Detroit.
Cuddyer, after new arrival a three-year, $24 truckload deal this winter, has this spell to a .252 normal with only three homers in 234 at-bats. He has hit well this month, however, and his overwhelming throwing arm is at all times a intimidation to contradictory .
Clearly, a further damage to Cuddyer was not the way Gardenhire required to get Span back in the majors.
“He’s a leader out there, you know? He’s one of the guys that we reckoning on all day,” Gardenhire said. “But as with anybody else, we just have to play. We have to pick each extra up when effects happen.”
Span, the team’s first-round draft selection in 2002 who was packed down out for the job in region field this hairspring by Carlos Gomez, is .342 with 32 runs, three , 14 RBIs and 15 steals with a .436 on-base cut in the leadoff spot for Rochester. He missed more than a month with a destroyed digit.
“As I told him when we sent him down, my goal was to try to table out a way to get him up here and keep him up here and be able to use him appropriately,” Gardenhire said. “I don’t want him to sit on the work surface.”
At the 81-game mark, the Twins were best in the AL Central race – 1 1/2 sports event behind Chicago entering Sunday – but not the way they envisioned. Injuries up and down the schedule and disappointing assembly by a few offseason have affected quite a lot of into surprisingly weighty roles. Span will be the cutting-edge example.
“I believe it’s been trial and oversight all the way up to this point,” Gardenhire said.
The chief a uncertainty near whether he planned to play Span every day during Cuddyer’s time off or linger to mix in usual designated Jason Kubel in justified field.
“I just plan to try to keep triumphant,” Gardenhire said.
