{"id":33077,"date":"2025-07-30T00:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33077\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:39:08","slug":"athletics-place-jacob-wilson-on-10-day-il-with-fractured-forearm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/33077\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics Place Jacob Wilson On 10-Day IL With Fractured Forearm"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletics have placed rookie shortstop Jacob Wilson<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with a fractured left forearm, the team announced today. He had been nursing what the team initially described as a left hand contusion since he was hit by a pitch before the All-Star break (per Mart\u00edn Gallegos of MLB.com<\/a>) and had not played since Friday.\u00a0Darell Hernaiz<\/a> has been recalled from Triple-A to fill Wilson\u2019s spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n

A hamstring strain and a month-long stint on the injured list prevented Wilson from exceeding rookie limits in 2024. However, he hit the ground running in 2025 and quickly established himself as a favorite for the AL Rookie of the Year. He produced a .339\/.380\/.473 slashline through the end of June, with a 137 wRC+ and 2.8 FanGraphs WAR, earning the starting shortstop spot on the AL All-Star squad. Yet, in nine games since he was hit by a pitch on July 8, he went just 4-for-38 with a .312 OPS and a -24 wRC+. His fWAR dropped by close to half a win in that short span, and even before the news of his IL stint, he seemed to have fallen behind his teammate Nick Kurtz<\/a> as the AL Rookie of the Year frontrunner. (Of course, that has as much to do with Kurtz\u2019s phenomenal performance as it does Wilson\u2019s injury-induced slump.)<\/p>\n

Until the A\u2019s provide further information, it\u2019s hard to guess how much time Wilson could miss. With only two months left on the calendar, a fractured forearm could be a season-ending injury. At the very least, it\u2019s likely to keep the young shortstop out until September, though it remains a possibility that this is as minor as the wrist fracture Corbin Carroll<\/a>\u00a0suffered earlier this year<\/a>, which only kept him out for two weeks. Regardless, it\u2019s surely disappointing for Wilson that his fracture went undiagnosed for so long. Per Gallegos<\/a>, he will be shut down from baseball activities for the time being, and the A\u2019s will presumably provide some sort of timeline for his return in the coming days.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, this is a tough blow for Wilson and a big loss for the Athletics. That said, it\u2019s not as if the A\u2019s have any dreams of contending for a playoff spot this season, so they have no reason to rush Wilson back onto the field, and this shouldn\u2019t have much of an impact on their trade deadline plans. While Wilson is out, they can give the shortstop job to Max Schuemann<\/a>, and Hernaiz will get a chance to show what he can do in a utility role off the bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics have placed rookie shortstop Jacob Wilson on the 10-day injured list with a fractured left forearm,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,25122,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-33077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jacob-wilson-b-2002","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33077","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=33077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}