{"id":70987,"date":"2025-08-09T22:19:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70987\/"},"modified":"2025-08-09T22:19:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T22:19:08","slug":"athletics-place-rhp-luis-severino-on-il-with-oblique-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/70987\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics place RHP Luis Severino on IL with oblique strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right-hander <a data-player-guid=\"be1396f1-958a-6c37-0cb1-a78e75378a50\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/33263\/luis-severino\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Severino<\/a>, who recently has pitched like the high-priced free agent the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/ath\/athletics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Athletics<\/a> signed in the offseason, was placed on the 15-day injured list Saturday because of a left oblique strain.<\/p>\n<p>The move is retroactive to Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The A&#8217;s called up left-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/41364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hogan Harris<\/a> from Triple-A Las Vegas in a corresponding transaction.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45915930\/athletics-reliever-jose-leclerc-successful-shoulder-surgery\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/r1483011_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45915505\/mlb-2025-power-rankings-week-19-brewers-phillies-cubs-dodgers-tigers\" class=\"img-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/mlb_power19_new_1x1.jpg&#038;w=130&#038;h=130&#038;scale=crop&#038;location=center.jpeg\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<p>Severino <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/42796448\/sources-athletics-luis-severino-reach-3-year-67m-deal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">signed a $67 million, three-year contract<\/a> in December with the A&#8217;s, but he can opt out after next season. It was largest-ever contract for the typically low-spending A&#8217;s, though they since made other similar deals with <a data-player-guid=\"0fc2e345-a28a-9c20-023a-e80747e8d0d0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/40926\/brent-rooker\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brent Rooker<\/a> ( $60 million over five years ) and <a data-player-guid=\"507645e1-1fa0-3e50-b541-3d37c9f4f43a\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4917919\/lawrence-butler\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lawrence Butler<\/a> ( $65.5 million over seven years ) in anticipation of their scheduled move to Las Vegas in 2028.<\/p>\n<p>Unless he agrees to an extension, the 31-year-old Severino likely won&#8217;t be part of those plans.<\/p>\n<p>He started slow this season, but in his past five starts went 4-1 with a 2.93 ERA and 30 strikeouts over 27 2\/3 innings. That improved his record to 6-11 with a 4.82 ERA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Right-hander Luis Severino, who recently has pitched like the high-priced free agent the Athletics signed in the offseason,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-70987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70987","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=70987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}