{"id":129702,"date":"2025-09-08T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129702\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:46:07","slug":"concussion-forces-angels-to-turn-to-catcher-who-hasnt-played-mlb-game-in-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/129702\/","title":{"rendered":"Concussion Forces Angels to Turn to Catcher Who Hasn&#8217;t Played MLB Game in 3 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_q150t9y8o\">Sebastian Rivero is not a familiar name to Angels fans. He&#8217;s barely a familiar name at Salt Lake, where he&#8217;s played 68 games for the Angels&#8217; Triple-A affiliate since signing a minor league contract last December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_fmowjfqom\">As of Monday, he&#8217;s part of a timeshare behind the plate with Travis d&#8217;Arnaud. Logan O&#8217;Hoppe was struck on the face mask in a freak injury Sunday against the Athletics, and according to Erica Weston of FanDuel Sports Network West, the catcher will go on the 7-day concussion IL.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sebastian Rivero is catching. O\u2019Hoppe going on the concussion IL.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erica Weston (@EricaLWeston) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EricaLWeston\/status\/1965165610159276226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">September 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vgephggir\">Rivero is in the starting lineup for Monday&#8217;s game against the Minnesota Twins at Angel Stadium. It will be his first appearance in a major league game since Oct. 5, 2022 with the Kansas City Royals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_8ewp1ga1r\">More to come on this story.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sebastian Rivero is not a familiar name to Angels fans. He&#8217;s barely a familiar name at Salt Lake,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-129702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}