Jhoulys Chacin placed on disabled list with right shoulder inflammation

By D.J. ShortMay 7, 2012, 8:49 PM EDT
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The Rockies announced earlier this evening that Jhoulys Chacin was placed on the 15-day disabled list with right shoulder inflammation. The 24-year-old was demoted to Triple-A Colorado Springs last week after posting an ugly 7.30 ERA over his first five starts, but today’s move rescinds the option.

This news doesn’t come as a big surprise, as Rockies’ general manager Dan O’Dowd told Troy Renck of the Denver Post earlier today that Chacin wasn’t prepared to pitch at the Triple-A level.

“We’re still working through his issues and trying to get our arms around everything before we move forward,” general manager Dan O’Dowd said today.

“Health, mind, delivery, the whole package. It makes no sense for him to go out and pitch until we get him in a better place.”

While his issues evidently aren’t all physical, he dealt with a blister and right biceps tendinitis during spring training and O’Dowd expressed disappointment in his offseason conditioning program. Chacin finished last season with a 3.62 ERA over a career-high 194 innings, but he hit the wall down the stretch by posting a 4.31 ERA and 49/37 K/BB ratio in 77 1/3 innings during the second half.

The Angels were the first team to use up all of their mound visits

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By Craig CalcaterraApr 25, 2018, 12:38 PM EDT
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Last night’s Angels-Astros game was a long affair with a bunch of homers and the use of 11 pitchers in all. The Angels used six pitchers and all of that business led to plenty of conferences. Six, in fact, which is their allotment under the new rule capping mound visits. As far as I can tell, that makes the Angels the first team to use up all of their mound visits since the advent of the rule.

Sadly, they did not try to go for a seventh, thereby testing the currently unknown limits of the rule. Umpires have been instructed to not allow additional mound visits, but they cannot issue balls or tackle anyone or anything to enforce it. Presumably, if Maldonado had walked out to talk to Cam Bedrosian about the weather or where he was going to dinner after the game, the home plate umpire would’ve simply done the old Robin Williams English policeman’s bit of yelling “Stop! . . . or I shall yell ‘Stop!’ again!” Maybe a fine would issue later, but we’ll never know.

At least until someone breaks the limit. And we know someone will, right? We should have a betting pool on who does it.