The Blue Jays have placed right hand Matt Shoemaker on the 10-day injured list due to shoulder inflammation, the club announced. Right Jacob Waguespack was recalled from the club’s alternative training site to take Shoemaker’s place on the active roster.
Shoemaker has a 4.91 ERA, 3.57 K / BB, and 8.8 K / 9 over 25 2/3 innings this season. An angry 2.8 HR / 9 is responsible for many of those ERAs, because Shoemaker has allowed a league-free eight home runs. Although the performance so far has been a bit shaky, Shoemaker had at least been a somewhat reliable source of innings for a Jays team that did not have much consistency of rotation.
As the losses of shoemaker and star perspective Nate Pearson were not enough for Toronto, Trent Thornton lasted only an inning in today’s 5-4 loss to the Rays due to his own case of inflammation of the right arch. This was the same injury that put Thornton on the IL earlier this month, and although there is still no word on his status, it seems likely that Thornton may be sidelined again so he can be fully healed.
Hyun Jin Ryu, Tanner Roark, en Chase Anderson stand now as the only three healthy options in the Blue Jays rotation, though Anderson is slowly being brought down after missing several weeks of recovering from a hamstring injury. Waguespack en Anthony Kay are one of the candidates to fill in as starters, Jays manager Charlie Montoyo told Sportsnet’s Ben Nicholson-Smith and other reporters, although moving naturally into starting roles will also reduce a Toronto bullpen that does a lot of work has seen this season. As Nicholson-Smith noted, the recent pitching injuries will only intensify the club’s already stated desire to get more weapons by the trade date.
