{"id":622234,"date":"2026-04-23T01:07:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622234\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T01:07:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T01:07:27","slug":"as-place-denzel-clarke-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/622234\/","title":{"rendered":"A&#8217;s Place Denzel Clarke On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Athletics placed center fielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/clarkde02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Denzel Clarke<\/a> on the 10-day injured list before today\u2019s loss in Seattle.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/thomaco03.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Colby Thomas<\/a> was recalled from Triple-A Las Vegas to take the vacated active roster spot.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke is dealing with a bone bruise in his right foot. Manager Mark Kotsay told <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/denzel-clarke-placed-on-injured-list-with-foot-bruise?partnerID=web_article-share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mart\u00edn Gallegos of MLB.com<\/a> that the issue relates to a lingering injury to his big toe that Clarke has battled for some time. It reached a point where the defensive stalwart felt better shutting things down rather than continuing to play through the discomfort.<\/p>\n<p>This is Clarke\u2019s first full season at the MLB level. He\u2019s living up to his reputation on both sides of the ball. Clarke has rated highly in center field and had another of his patented home run robberies to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/athletics\/video\/denzel-clarke-s-spectacular-home-run-robbery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">take one away<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/baldwdr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drake Baldwin<\/a> on April 1. The 6\u20193\u2033 Clarke is among the most talented defensive players in the sport. His bat is well behind, and he\u2019s hitting .170 while striking out 24 times in 60 plate appearances (40%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/butlela01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lawrence Butler<\/a> got the start in center field today against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gilbelo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Logan Gilbert<\/a>. The A\u2019s had turned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gelofza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Zack Gelof<\/a> at the position for the first two games of the Seattle series. A career-long second baseman, Gelof has begun working in the outfield this year after the A\u2019s traded for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcneije01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jeff McNeil<\/a> to handle the keystone.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019ll likely be Gelof taking the bulk of the center field work. Butler can play there on occasion, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/corteca01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=www.mlbtraderumors.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-04-22_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Carlos Cortes<\/a> drawing into right field on those days. The righty-hitting Thomas will also be in the mix after a strong start to his year in Triple-A. Thomas was batting .309\/.397\/.574 with five homers in 17 games for Las Vegas. He debuted last season and popped six homers in 132 plate appearances, but he struck out 49 times (37.1%) en route to a meager .267 on-base mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics placed center fielder\u00a0Denzel Clarke on the 10-day injured list before today\u2019s loss in Seattle.\u00a0Colby Thomas was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,20075,462,82],"class_list":["post-622234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denzel-clarke","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622234","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=622234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}