{"id":627479,"date":"2026-04-25T09:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627479\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T09:55:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T09:55:54","slug":"reds-place-eugenio-suarez-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/627479\/","title":{"rendered":"Reds Place Eugenio Su\u00e1rez On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Reds will place\u00a0Eugenio Su\u00e1rez<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with a low-grade oblique strain, manager Terry Francona told reporters (including Charlie Goldsmith<\/a>). He was scratched from tonight\u2019s game with what the team initially called mid-back discomfort.<\/p>\n

Although oblique strains can linger for hitters, this one doesn\u2019t appear to be particularly serious. Goldsmith writes that the team is hopeful Su\u00e1rez can resume baseball activities after a brief shutdown and reevaluation. The Reds can backdate the placement to April 23, meaning the earliest he could return is May 3.<\/p>\n

Outfielder\u00a0JJ Bleday<\/a> was removed from tonight\u2019s Triple-A game after two plate appearances. That seemingly points to him being recalled tomorrow as the corresponding move. It would be Bleday\u2019s first look at the MLB level with Cincinnati. He has been on optional assignment all year but is on a tear in the minors, batting .345 with six homers through his first 23 games.<\/p>\n

Bleday isn\u2019t a direct positional replacement for Su\u00e1rez, but the Reds have used the latter mostly as a designated hitter. He has only made six starts at the hot corner compared to 18 appearances as the DH. They\u2019re a much better defensive team with\u00a0Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes<\/a> at third base, but the two-time Gold Glove winner is out to a terrible start at the plate.<\/p>\n

Hayes is hitting .081 with one home run in his first 68 trips to the dish. Cincinnati has managed to keep winning despite getting nothing offensively from Hayes, catcher Tyler Stephenson<\/a>, or any of their outfielders. Su\u00e1rez hasn\u2019t been particularly productive either, batting .231\/.300\/.363 with just three home runs through his first 100 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

The Reds nevertheless pulled out another improbable win on Friday. Nathaniel Lowe<\/a>, who drew into the lineup at DH with Su\u00e1rez out, hit a walk-off two-run homer off\u00a0Kenley Jansen<\/a> with two outs in the ninth. That was Lowe\u2019s second of the night, his first two longballs in a Cincinnati uniform. They\u2019re up to 17-9 despite entering the night ranked 24th in MLB in scoring.<\/p>\n

Lowe figures to pick up most of the extra at-bats while Su\u00e1rez is sidelined. The bench skews left-handed and will lean even more in that direction if Bleday is the corresponding move. Lowe has a decent career track record against pitchers of either handedness and got the DH assignment tonight against Detroit southpaw Framber Valdez<\/a>. Hayes seems assured of continued run at third base for the time being.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Reds will place\u00a0Eugenio Su\u00e1rez on the 10-day injured list with a low-grade oblique strain, manager Terry Francona…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,1514,132085,462,82],"class_list":["post-627479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-j-j-bleday","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627479","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=627479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}