Blake Wood will undergo Tommy John surgery within the next two weeks.
Wood hasn’t pitched in the majors this season due to what was originally described as an irritated ulnar nerve in his right elbow. He’ll be sidelined for the rest of the season and likely for the early part of 2013, as well. The 26-year-old right-hander had a 3.75 ERA and 62/32 K/BB ratio over 69 2/3 innings out of the Royals’ bullpen last year.
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Dr. Lewis Yocum confirmed that Danny Duffy has a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his left elbow.
Yocum confirmed the initial diagnosis by Royals head physician Dr. Key. Duffy will undergo season-ending Tommy John surgery in Los Angeles within the next two weeks and figures to miss the early part of the 2013 campaign. It’s disappointing given the improvement he showed this season, but there’s still plenty of promise here in the long-term.
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Buster Posey is not in Friday’s lineup against the Athletics.
It’s just a routine day of rest for Posey, who is hitting .295/.348/.443 on the year. Hector Sanchez will start behind the dish while Brandon Belt plays first base.
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Joaquin Arias (forearm) is back in the Giants’ starting lineup Friday against the Athletics.
Arias hasn’t played since being hit in the left forearm by a pitch during Tuesday’s game, but he’s back at third base Friday. The 27-year-old is hitting .250 (14-for-56) with five RBI in 17 games this year and is getting a chance at playing time with Pablo Sandoval (hamate bone surgery) on the mend, but he’s a pretty weak fantasy option, even in NL-only leagues.
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Giants’ minor league right-hander Luis Rojas was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
Rojas tested positive for metabolites of Stanozolol. The 22-year-old right-hander owns a 5.09 ERA in parts of six seasons in the minors and has never pitched above High-A. He’s not a promising prospect and the suspension won’t do anything to help his standing.
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Mets prospect infielder Danny Muno was suspended 50 games for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.
Muno tested positive for a metabolite of Drostanolone. The 23-year-old has a .325/.418/.492 batting line over his first 97 games in the lower levels of the minor leagues and was ranked as the organization’s No. 30 prospect by Baseball America over the winter.
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Jesus Montero is not in the Mariners’ lineup for the second straight day Friday.
The M’s don’t have the DH available this weekend against the Rockies, so Montero will sit while John Jaso makes the start behind the plate. Montero has just three hits in his last 30 at-bats, so perhaps the rest will do him some good.
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Gordon Beckham hit a solo homer in the top of the eighth to propel the White Sox to a 3-2 victory over the Cubs on Friday.
Beckham also had a big play earlier in the game, when he rolled into David DeJesus on a play at second base, knocking him off the bag, and somehow got the out call out of it. Beckham’s homer was his third of the season. They’ve all come this month after he hit just .153 during April.
Philip Humber yielded two runs in 6 1/3 innings Friday in a no-decision versus the Cubs.
Humber has turned in back-to-back quality starts since the May 7 shellacking in which he gave up eight runs to the Indians. Still, his only victory on the season came in his perfect game last month. He was taken out with a 2-1 lead today, but there were runners on second and third with one out at the time and Matt Thornton allowed the lead runner to score before getting out of the seventh inning.
Michael Morse (lat) took swings off a tee Friday.
Morse is quickly ramping up baseball activities after being shut down in April with a torn right lat muscle. He’s expected to travel to Viera, Florida on Monday to begin getting at-bats in extended spring training games. Barring any setbacks, he could join the Nationals’ lineup in the early part of June.
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