{"id":659711,"date":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659711\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T03:32:10","slug":"rockies-place-mickey-moniak-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/659711\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockies Place Mickey Moniak On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rockies announced they\u2019ve placed\u00a0Mickey Moniak<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with right ankle tendinitis. Rookie outfielder\u00a0Sterlin Thompson<\/a> is up from Triple-A Albuquerque to take his spot on the roster. Thomas Harding of MLB.com<\/a> reported the moves before the official announcement.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the second IL stint of the season for Moniak, who missed the first week and a half with a finger sprain on his right hand. Manager Warren Schaeffer tells team reporter Kelsey Wingert-Linch<\/a> that Moniak injured his ankle when he collided with the wall during a mid-May series against the Pirates. He has played through the injury for a couple weeks but will need some time on the shelf.<\/p>\n

Moniak has probably not coincidentally been in a slump since that series. He\u2019s 2-20 over his last seven games. Moniak had been one of the more productive hitters in the sport before that and still carries a strong .280\/.335\/.607 slash line across 164 plate appearances. He leads the team with 12 home runs, a top 10 mark in the National League.<\/p>\n

The former first overall pick has found his stride since signing with the Rockies on the eve of Opening Day 2025. He\u2019s a .272\/.314\/.541 hitter in 625 plate appearances over his year-plus in Colorado. That\u2019s almost all against right-handed pitching and has disproportionately come at Coors Field, yet Moniak has certainly hit well enough to put himself on the radar as a midseason trade candidate. He\u2019s making $4MM and under arbitration control through 2027. If he\u2019s healthy, he could be a platoon corner outfield\/designated hitter target for a contender.<\/p>\n

Thompson, a supplemental first-rounder from the 2022 draft, is up for the second time in his MLB career. He went 1-8 in a three-game stretch last week before being optioned back to Triple-A. The Florida product is in the lineup at DH tonight against Arizona righty\u00a0Michael Soroka<\/a>. Colorado is shorthanded in the outfield with Moniak and\u00a0Brenton Doyle<\/a> landing on the injured list in consecutive days. Thompson should get fairly regular playing time as part of an outfield that also includes\u00a0Jake McCarthy<\/a>,\u00a0Troy Johnston<\/a> and\u00a0Tyler Freeman<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Rockies announced they\u2019ve placed\u00a0Mickey Moniak on the 10-day injured list with right ankle tendinitis. Rookie outfielder\u00a0Sterlin Thompson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[98627,99,284119],"class_list":["post-659711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-mickey-moniak","tag-sports","tag-sterlin-thompson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}