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 record with a left indirect pressure.
Brooks, 34, signed with the A’s on a minor league deal over the winter and was known as up final month to assist fill out the membership’s rotation combine amid quite a few 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 fee of simply 10% in opposition to a 6% stroll fee. 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 yr, it’s at the very least possible to think about the righty exhibiting off a stronger efficiency in his second stint within the massive leagues this season. In spite of everything, 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 stage this yr regardless of the inflated offensive atmosphere of the Pacific Coast League.
Brooks will take the roster spot of Jimenez, who has been a good 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 a good 20% strikeout fee. These stable outcomes have come despite excessive wildness, nevertheless. The best-hander has walked an eye-popping 17.1% of batters confronted this yr, a development per 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 fee 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 approach again into the massive league reduction combine as soon as wholesome. With items like Lucas Erceg, T.J. McFarland, and Austin Adams prone to appeal to curiosity from golf equipment in want of bullpen assist this summer season, it’s attainable that the A’s can have loads of room for Jimenez if he returns following the commerce deadline even within the seemingly occasion that the membership holds onto celebrity nearer Mason Miller.