10-day injured list<\/a> on May 13, retroactive to May 11, with a right oblique strain after feeling discomfort while hitting in the batting cage prior to a matchup against the New York Yankees.<\/p>\n\u201cHe\u2019s on track,\u201d said Matt Blood, Orioles vice president of player and staff development. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how he\u2019s feeling, and whenever all the benchmarks are checked, he\u2019ll find his way back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beavers last played on May 10 in a 2-1 win over the Athletics, going 2-for-4 with an RBI. In 33 games \u2014 29 of which were starts \u2014 with the Orioles this season, he batted .245 with nine extra-base hits and 12 RBI.<\/p>\n
At the time of his injury, Beavers had emerged as one of the Orioles\u2019 more productive outfield bats while fellow outfielders Colton Cowser and Tyler O\u2019Neill struggled at the plate. Although Cowser has begun to show signs of improvement in recent weeks, O\u2019Neill\u2019s offensive woes have persisted.<\/p>\n
O\u2019Neill has taken on the lion\u2019s share of starts since Beavers landed on the injured list, but he has been unable to consistently provide the offensive production the Orioles expected when they signed him. O\u2019Neill has batted just .184 with seven extra-base hits and eight RBI.<\/p>\n
As the Orioles continue to search for offensive consistency, Beavers\u2019 return could provide a much-needed boost. If he is able to pick up where he left off before the injury, Beavers would give manager Craig Albernaz another quality option in the lineup while increasing the team\u2019s outfield depth.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepth is a good thing to have. Any given day, there might be a different need for the lineup and Beavers is a very talented player who helps,\u201d Blood said. \u201cThe more good players you have, the better. It\u2019ll be good to have him back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dylan Beavers is working his way back to the Orioles. Beavers began his rehab assignment with the Chesapeake…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[1558,363,1135,99],"class_list":["post-713720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-portraits","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713720","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=713720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}