It is going to be fairly a while earlier than Kyle Teel makes his season debut. The White Sox second-year catcher sprained the lateral collateral ligament (LCL) in his proper knee, relays Brooke Fletcher of Chicago Sports activities Community. He’ll be down for 3-6 weeks earlier than he’s capable of begin a brand new rehab task.
Teel suffered the damage on Saturday in a rehab recreation with Triple-A Charlotte. Supervisor Will Venable instructed reporters (together with James Fegan of Sox Machine) that the lefty batter bought harm when his cleat bought caught throughout a swing. He was working his manner again after sustaining a Grade 2 pressure of his proper hamstring whereas enjoying for Italy within the World Baseball Traditional.
It’s a irritating setback for a surprisingly aggressive Sox staff. Chicago enters their sequence in Seattle with a 24-22 document that has them in a Wild Card spot and solely a recreation behind Cleveland within the AL Central. A playoff berth nonetheless looks as if an extended shot given the Sox’s rebuilding pitching workers, however they’re a extra stay risk than most would’ve anticipated at the start of the season.
The offense has been a giant a part of that. Chicago is tenth in scoring and ranks within the high half of the league in each on-base share and slugging. Solely the Yankees have hit extra house runs than the Sox’s 66 longballs. Teel would doubtless have slotted into the highest half of the lineup after a .273/.375/.411 exhibiting over his first 78 MLB video games.
Chicago has as a substitute rolled with a Drew Romo/Edgar Quero pairing behind the plate. Romo, who entered the season with basically no MLB monitor document, has linked on 4 homers in 13 video games since being known as as much as supplant Reese McGuire because the backup catcher. Quero has had a really powerful 12 months, yesterday’s walk-off homer in opposition to the Cubs however.
The Sox might switch Teel to the 60-day injured checklist if they should open a spot on the 40-man roster in some unspecified time in the future. That’ll backdate to Opening Day and can be a formality, as he’s unlikely to be prepared for MLB motion till late June on the earliest. Quero and Romo are the one wholesome catchers on the 40-man.
