Arizona Diamondbacks Gameday Thread, #21: 4/18 vs. Blue Jays
A view of the Camelback Inn, Scottsdale Arizona, April 1967. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) | Getty Images Today’s Lineups BLUE JAYS DIAMONDBACKS Nathan Lukes – RF Ketel Marte – DH Ernie Clement – 2B Corbin Carroll – RF Vladimir Guerrero – 1B Geraldo Perdomo – SS Jesus Sanchez – LF Lourdes Gurriel – LF Eloy Jimenez – DH Adrian Del Castillo – C Andres Gimenez – SS Jose Fernandez – 1B Kazuma Okamoto – 3B Nolan Arenado – 3B Myles Straw – CF Ildemaro Vargas – 2B Tyler Heineman – C Alek Thomas – CF Max Scherzer – RHP Zac Gallen – RHP Roster moves The Arizona Diamondbacks made the following roster moves. The D-backs’ 40-man roster is at 39.
Reinstated from the 10-day injured list: OF Lourdes Gurriel Jr. (recovery from right ACL surgery) Designated for assignment: INF Luken Baker And there we are. Seven months and fifteen days after playing his previous game for the D-backs, and little more than seven months after having surgery for a torn ACL, Lourdes Gurriel has complete his rehab.
That’s a solid two months of the expected schedule, which at the time of the surgery was estimated at Lourdes needing 9-10 months before he’d come back. Particularly of interest, he is going straight into the outfield, despite the common belief being that he would start off at designated hitter for a bit. We’ll see how that works out.
I’m also a little nervous about his lack of live at-bats. No spring training and nine PAs against Double-A pitching? I’m sure he has got his cage work in, but still… Meanwhile, Luken Baker makes an early bit to be the low man on the totem-pole, when it comes to the year end roster Sporcle.
His five plate appearances will be tough to beat, though I guess there is a chance he makes it through waivers and ends up back in Reno for a bit. It’s interesting this leaves the team with an empty slot on the 40-man roster. I don’t envisage anyone coming off the 60-day IL anytime soon.