{"id":618035,"date":"2026-04-21T04:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618035\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T04:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T04:15:14","slug":"edwin-uceta-diagnosed-with-subscapularis-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618035\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Uceta Diagnosed With Subscapularis Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rays reliever\u00a0Edwin Uceta<\/a> has been diagnosed with a subscapularis strain in his throwing shoulder, manager Kevin Cash told reporters on Monday afternoon (link via Adam Berry of MLB.com<\/a>). The righty will be shut down completely for another 2-3 weeks.<\/p>\n

Uceta was already down with a shoulder impingement. This is a different injury that arose during his rehab assignment. Uceta had made four minor league appearances and would likely have been activated this week if not for the new injury.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s now a decent chance he\u2019ll end up on the 60-day injured list once the team needs a 40-man roster spot. The Rays could backdate any IL transfer to Opening Day even though it\u2019s a different injury. Uceta won\u2019t resume throwing until the first half of May at this point, so it\u2019s difficult to imagine he\u2019ll be ready for MLB action by the beginning of June.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tough hit to the Tampa Bay bullpen. Uceta has been one of their better relievers over the past two seasons and was slated for a high-leverage role. He turned in a 1.51 ERA across 41 2\/3 innings two years ago. Last season\u2019s 3.79 mark wasn\u2019t as impressive, but he struck out almost a third of opposing hitters while tying\u00a0Garrett Cleavinger<\/a> for the team lead with 21 holds.<\/p>\n

Cleavinger has also been down for the past three weeks with calf tightness. He\u2019s on a rehab assignment and should be back within the next couple days. Tampa Bay placed\u00a0Mason Englert<\/a> on the 15-day IL this afternoon. They\u2019ll be without\u00a0Manuel Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> for the majority of the season and are without middle reliever\u00a0Steven Wilson<\/a> for a couple months.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not a coincidence that the relief corps has been a weakness for the first couple weeks of the season. Kevin Kelly<\/a>,\u00a0Griffin Jax<\/a>,\u00a0Bryan Baker<\/a> and\u00a0Hunter Bigge<\/a> have taken on most of the significant innings. Bigge has the best ERA but with ugly strikeout and walk marks. Jax has similarly bleak underlying numbers and has not gotten good results. Baker has been around average, while Kelly has pitched well outside of one six-run drubbing at the hands of the Twins.<\/p>\n

The Rays entered played Monday with a 5.38 bullpen ERA that ranks 26th in MLB. They\u2019re 25th in strikeout\/walk rate differential with the league\u2019s third-highest home run rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rays reliever\u00a0Edwin Uceta has been diagnosed with a subscapularis strain in his throwing shoulder, manager Kevin Cash told…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,153117,462,82],"class_list":["post-618035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edwin-uceta","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618035","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=618035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}