HBT Weekend Wrap

God, wasn’t that family thing/working/cleaning/ thing a pain in the butt this weekend? Kept you from paying attention to baseball? Yeah, me too. Thankfully, then, here is everything you missed that mattered:

Jose Reyes is gonna be gone a while.
Josh Hamilton continued to distinguish himself.
As the hour gets late in the bar, everyone starts to look better and better.
Just your routine 4-6-5-6-5-3-4 triple play.
John Buck > Miami Marlins.
Your ace has time to turn it around. Really.
Robinson Cano: shortstop?
The Diamondbacks made some Dodgers fans change clothes. Because they have their priorities in order.
Danny Espinosa and Stephen Strasburg are not all that impressed with the Braves. Even after getting swept. They’re the Black Knight of the NL East. Have at you! We’re invincible!!!
Jacket 1, Jose Fernandez 0.
Joe Maddon hates big bunts and he cannot lie.
“42” is doing well at the box office.
Say what you want about Alex Rodriguez, but at least he’s using his treadmill for running and not for hanging laundry on like all of us are.
Carlos Quentin wisely drops his appeal the day before he’s supposed to face Dodgers pitching.
Conor Jackson retired.
Austin Kearns was hospitalized.
The Braves’ hot start guarantees them nothing.

Happy Jackie Robinson Day. Happy Morning Baseball Because of Patriot’s Day in Boston. Oh, and Happy Tax Day too. All kinds of things to celebrate, eh?

Indians slugger José Ramírez broke the hamate bone on his right hand last month and had surgery on August 26 to repair it. At the time he was given the same schedule most hamate bone surgery recipients get: 5-7 weeks if all goes well. Apparently all has gone better-than-well for Ramírez, however, because the Indians are going to activate him tomorrow.

That’s good news for the Indians, who are in a dead heat with the Tampa Bay Rays for the AL’s second Wild Card with six games to go.

Ramírez, like his team, started the season slowly, but he had turned things on in July and August to help fuel Cleveland’s surge into playoff contention. He hit .320/.340/.680 with nine homers and 25 driven in in July and was hitting .321/.372/.705 with six homers and 20 driven in August when he went down. Basically, he had been a better version of the Ramírez who won the Silver Slugger Award and came in third in the MVP balloting in 2018, at least for those two months.

It’ll be interesting to see how rusty he is or if the surgery has sapped his power or bat speed. We’ll only have six games in which to see it, though.

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