{"id":92282,"date":"2025-08-24T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92282\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:18:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T12:18:16","slug":"rangers-place-marcus-semien-on-il-activate-adolis-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/92282\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers Place Marcus Semien On IL, Activate Adolis Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rangers announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve placed Marcus Semien<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with a left foot contusion in a move that\u2019s retroactive to August 22. In a corresponding move, outfielder Adolis Garcia<\/a> was activated from the injured list.<\/p>\n

While Semien had been plagued by his ailing foot for a few days at this point, it\u2019s still a moderate surprise to see the veteran head for the shelf. The 34-year-old veteran is arguably one of the most reliable players in the entire sport when it comes to availability. Since his first full season with the A\u2019s back in 2015, Semien has appeared in 93.7% of his teams\u2019 games. Almost all of those missed games came in 2017, when he was limited to 85 games by a sprained wrist. Outside of that season, he\u2019s not appeared in less than 155 games in a 162-game season since becoming a full-time player.<\/p>\n

That will now change, as Semien won\u2019t be eligible to come off the shelf until August 31. It\u2019s more of a loss for the Rangers than Semien\u2019s 88 wRC+ may make it seem at first glance. Strong defense and baserunning has allowed Semien to put together 2.1 fWAR so far this year in spite of his weak offensive numbers, and Semien has actually hit quite well since breaking an early season slump; while he was one of the worst hitters in baseball over the season\u2019s first two months, since May 30 he\u2019s slashed .270\/.338\/.464 (122 wRC+) in 311 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Ezequiel Duran<\/a> and Cody Freeman<\/a> have gotten reps at second base the past two days while Semien has been out. That duo could continue seeing playing time at the position, though utility man Josh Smith<\/a> will likely also get reps at the keystone over the next few days. That\u2019s all the more likely now that Garcia is back in the fold. Smith had been paying outfield primarily in recent days while Garcia spent a minimum stint on the injured list due to a sprained ankle. It\u2019s been a tough year for Garcia, who has hit just .224\/.266\/.388 with a wRC+ of 79 in 116 games, and unlike Semien he hasn\u2019t yet been able to turn his season around over a substantial stretch of time. He\u2019ll be looking to do just that down the stretch this year, as without a strong finish to the season Garcia looks like a very likely non-tender candidate headed into the offseason.<\/p>\n

In other Rangers injury news, it seems veteran right-hander Chris Martin<\/a> shouldn\u2019t be expected to return to the majors anytime soon. Shawn McFarland of the Dallas Morning News<\/a> wrote this afternoon that Martin was forced to end his live bullpen session early today after the calf strain that\u2019s left him sidelined since late last month flared up. Manager Bruce Bochy called the incident a \u201clittle setback\u201d in Martin\u2019s efforts to return to the mound for the Rangers this year, but with September rapidly approaching it\u2019s fair to wonder just how long Martin\u2019s window to return will remain open. Texas would surely love to have him back, as he\u2019s been excellent when healthy this year with a 2.36 ERA in 39 appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rangers announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve placed Marcus Semien on the 10-day injured list with a left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[17854,64,63,1760,68478,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-92282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-adolis-garcia","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-chris-martin","12":"tag-marcus-semien","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}