God, don't get hurt in the ASG......oooops!
Posted: 15 Jul 2025 22:35 pm
Every manager worries about his top players missing the badly-needed 98-game break and playing in the ASG, risking injury in a spits 'n grins exhibition game ...or messing up his swing in the HR Derby. All those fireballers = all those potential HBP injuries.
But what happened tonight is causing phones to light up at Chase Field in Phoenix, as the Diamondbacks' power-hitting leader, Geno Suarez, who's in his walk year --- and if moved could bring quite a haul --- just took a sizzling fastball off the hand from some nobody pitcher with, egad, the White Sox.
With the trade deadline just 2 1/2 weeks away and the D'backs assessing what to do with the soon-ending contracts of slumping ace Zac Gallen; reliable #2 Merrill Kelly; and slugging Suarez, the one bullet that got away from Shane Smith might have huge consequences this season.
I see Suarez is, amazingly, back at 3B in the field, but tomorrow they'll know more about his hand and if he can hit. In the meantime, mail your Pepto-Bismol and Maalox coupons to Chase Field, attn. Torey Lovullo and Mike Hazen.
But what happened tonight is causing phones to light up at Chase Field in Phoenix, as the Diamondbacks' power-hitting leader, Geno Suarez, who's in his walk year --- and if moved could bring quite a haul --- just took a sizzling fastball off the hand from some nobody pitcher with, egad, the White Sox.
With the trade deadline just 2 1/2 weeks away and the D'backs assessing what to do with the soon-ending contracts of slumping ace Zac Gallen; reliable #2 Merrill Kelly; and slugging Suarez, the one bullet that got away from Shane Smith might have huge consequences this season.
I see Suarez is, amazingly, back at 3B in the field, but tomorrow they'll know more about his hand and if he can hit. In the meantime, mail your Pepto-Bismol and Maalox coupons to Chase Field, attn. Torey Lovullo and Mike Hazen.
