{"id":300305,"date":"2026-05-05T04:41:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300305\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T04:41:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T04:41:32","slug":"angels-place-yusei-kikuchi-on-il-with-shoulder-inflammation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/300305\/","title":{"rendered":"Angels place Yusei Kikuchi on IL with shoulder inflammation"},"content":{"rendered":"

AMAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels<\/a> placed left-hander Yusei Kikuchi<\/a> on the 15-day injured list Sunday with shoulder inflammation and purchased the contract of lefty Tayler Saucedo<\/a> from Triple-A Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

Kikuchi, 34, was removed from his road start against the Chicago White Sox<\/a> on Wednesday after throwing one warmup pitch before the third inning. He was initially diagnosed with shoulder tightness.<\/p>\n

An MRI was done on Kikuchi\u2019s left shoulder Friday, with general manager Perry Minasian suggesting that further results are pending.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s got some shoulder stuff, some soreness, so we\u2019re just waiting to see how it progresses,\u201d Minasian said before Sunday\u2019s series finale against the New York Mets<\/a>. \u201cHe\u2019s getting looked at, he will get looked at again and we will go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

An All-Star for the second time last season, his first with the Angels, Kikuchi had been adjusting the arm slot on his delivery this season as he went 0-3 with a 5.81 ERA in seven starts. He was 7-11 last season with a 3.99 ERA over 33 starts.<\/p>\n

In eight seasons with the Seattle Mariners<\/a> (2019-21), Toronto Blue Jays<\/a> (2022-24), Houston Astros<\/a> (2024) and Angels, the Japan native is 48-61 with a 4.50 ERA over 206 appearances (194 starts).<\/p>\n

Saucedo, 32, is set to make his Angels debut. In five seasons with the Blue Jays (2021-22) and Mariners (2023-25), he is 5-2 with a 4.36 ERA over 148 relief appearances. He was 0-1 with a 4.30 ERA in 12 relief appearances with Salt Lake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AMAHEIM, Calif. — The Los Angeles Angels placed left-hander Yusei Kikuchi on the 15-day injured list Sunday with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,14441,127065],"class_list":["post-300305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-los-angeles-angels-sports-baseball-team-team-statscom-227","tag-yusei-kikuchi-sports-baseball-player-player-statscom-542012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}