Get Well Soon, Milton; Welcome Back Burton
By
Amanda
Posted at 6:54 pm
The Reds made room for Jared Burton, who was coming off the DL, by putting Eric Milton on the DL. From Reds.com:
The Reds placed starting pitcher Eric Milton on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained left elbow on Wednesday.
Reliever Jared Burton was recalled from his injury rehabilitation assignment and was reinstated from the 15-day DL. Burton had been out since April 8 with a strained left hamstring.
Milton gave up four earned runs and seven hits over 5 1/3 innings in Tuesday's 7-6 loss to the Astros.
“He just went in after the game and complained about it a little bit,” Reds general manager Wayne Krivsky said. “As a precaution, we had the MRI at Dr. Kremchek's.”
I'd love for someone to come up on Sunday and make an impact, though--as we've said before--Milton hasn't actually been all that horrible.
Yet more from the same story:
Milton is 0-4 with a 5.17 ERA in six starts this season. The team did not announce a replacement starter for Sunday's game at Los Angeles, but Krivsky said he was considering pitchers on the current staff or looking to Triple-A Louisville. While lefties Phil Dumatrait and Bobby Livingston are performing well at Louisville and are on the 40-man roster, this could be an opening to promote top pitching prospect Homer Bailey.
Baily? Really? Is there yet a person out there who's been willing to say he's ready? I mean, don't we have enough high hopes turned to disappointments already?
John Fay doesn’t think it will be Bailey. He thinks they’ll want his debut to be at home, so they can sell tons o’ tickets.
Nice choice of words on the headline, RHM. Get well soon instead of hurry back.
The hurry back part depends on how well his replacement does while he’s out. What if they bring up a guy from the Bats and he gets bombed? :O
Some of the guys starting for the Bats have pretty good numbers down there in AAA, but that’s against AAA hitters – who presumably are in AAA rather than in the majors for a reason. There’s a big difference between pitching to Chad Mottola and pitching to Albert Pujols. 😀
HMZ
Trent reports that Narron says it’s probably going to be either Livingston or Dumatrait.
Makes sense. Those two guys are the only Louisville starters who are already on the 40-man, except of course Elizardo Ramirez, who is shut down and on the DL and is therefore out of the question.
So if it’s down to those two…Dumatrait pitched for the Bats last night (Thursday), which I guess narrows it down some more. Bobby Livingston, I presume.
Yup, it’s Livingston.
Hey, he had a triple his last game!