{"id":856837,"date":"2026-08-13T17:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T17:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T17:42:13","slug":"pirates-place-endy-rodriguez-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856837\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Place Endy Rodriguez On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pirates announced Thursday that breakout catcher Endy Rodriguez<\/a> has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to inflammation in his left hip. Right-hander Isaac Mattson<\/a> is up from Triple-A to take his spot on the roster. Pittsburgh also optioned lefty reliever Evan Sisk<\/a> and recalled infielder Jack Brannigan<\/a> from Triple-A Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

The Bucs were already carrying three catchers \u2014 Rodriguez, Henry Davis<\/a> and Rafael Flores<\/a> \u2014 so there\u2019s no need for them to summon another backstop from the minors. Davis and Flores will handle catching work in what the team surely hopes will be a minimal absence for the 26-year-old Rodriguez.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, a former top prospect, has put on an excellent show in his third season getting a look in the majors. It\u2019s only 159 plate appearances, but he\u2019s produced a hefty .267\/.373\/.467 batting line (132 wRC+) with seven homers, six doubles and six steals. Rodriguez has walked at an enormous 14.5% clip and struck out in just over one quarter of his trips to the plate. He\u2019s drawn solid framing marks behind the plate but is only 5-for-35 in throwing out thieves on the bases and grades slightly below-average in terms of blocking balls in the dirt, per Statcast.<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh lineup in 2026 is miles better than in recent seasons, but they\u2019ve run into some notable injuries over the past six weeks and can\u2019t seem to get all of their best hitters in the lineup at the same time. Rodriguez joins shortstop Konnor Griffin<\/a>, center fielder Oneil Cruz<\/a> and outfielder\/first baseman Ryan O\u2019Hearn<\/a> on the injured list. The Pirates recently welcomed Spencer Horwitz<\/a>\u00a0 back from the IL, but he and Rodriguez only overlapped on the roster for 10 days prior to Rodriguez\u2019s own IL stint.<\/p>\n

Even with that group out of action, the Pirates are getting big production from stalwart Bryan Reynolds<\/a> and his rookie outfielder counterpart Esmerlyn Valdez<\/a>. Second baseman Brandon Lowe<\/a> is on track for his second consecutive 30-homer season. Third baseman Nick Gonzales<\/a> isn\u2019t hitting for power and can\u2019t be expected to sustain his .365 average on balls in play, but he\u2019s making plenty of contact and slashing .304\/.360\/.400. Cruz, meanwhile, began a minor league rehab assignment last week and may not be far from returning. Griffin shouldn\u2019t be terribly far behind; he\u2019s swinging and participating in baseball activities but has yet to embark on a rehab stint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Pirates announced Thursday that breakout catcher Endy Rodriguez has been placed on the 10-day injured list due…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,295120,462,82],"class_list":["post-856837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-endy-rodriguez","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856837","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=856837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}