{"id":413138,"date":"2026-07-26T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T20:10:14","slug":"athletics-all-star-goes-down-with-major-injury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/413138\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics All-Star goes down with major injury"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Athletics<\/a>\u2019 2026 season just took another dramatic turn. Amid the looming MLB trade deadline, A\u2019s All-Star catcher Shea Langeliers<\/a> is expected to miss some time after suffering a torn meniscus injury in his knee, Jeff Passan of ESPN reported<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Langeliers last saw action in the Athletics<\/a>\u2019 series-opening 2-0 win over the Minnesota Twins<\/a> at Target Field in Minneapolis, Minn., on Friday, going 1-for-4 with a strikeout. Jonah Heim<\/a> took over the catching duties in the second game of the series Saturday, with Langeliers missing what is expected to be the first of many games due to his lower-body injury.<\/p>\n

This development involving the 28-year-old Langeliers affects not only the Athletics<\/a>\u2019 play on the field but also the front office\u2019s plans, as he was viewed as one of the team\u2019s top trade chips. Now, any trade ideas involving Langeliers will have to be put on hold, as the Athletics\u2019 injury woes worsen<\/a><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Passan noted that Langeliers is still deciding whether to have surgery to address his injury, an option that will sideline him for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n

Acquired by the A\u2019s via a trade with the Atlanta Braves<\/a> in 2019, Langeliers has emerged as one of the top catchers in the big leagues today. He made his first-ever MLB All-Star Game this season. Before suffering the injury, he was batting .263\/.332\/.497 with 23 home runs and 51 RBIs to go along with a 122 OPS+ through 93 games in the 2026 campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Athletics\u2019 2026 season just took another dramatic turn. Amid the looming MLB trade deadline, A\u2019s All-Star catcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[30942,143,145,144,27512],"class_list":["post-413138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-athletics","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-shea-langeliers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413138","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=413138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}