{"id":20570,"date":"2019-06-04T06:40:54","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T10:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/\/?p=20570"},"modified":"2019-06-04T21:18:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T01:18:28","slug":"andrew-mccutchen-injures-knee-asks-for-prayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2019\/06\/04\/andrew-mccutchen-injures-knee-asks-for-prayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew McCutchen Injures Knee, Asks For Prayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Phillies&#8217; center fielder\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mccutan01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Andrew McCutchen<\/a><\/strong> suffered a left knee injury in Monday&#8217;s loss to the San Diego Padres. While the severity of the injury is still unknown, McCutchen tweeted asking for his followers to &#8220;pray for me. Please&#8221;. This obviously isn&#8217;t encouraging for the former MVP and first-year Philly.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: McCutchen did, in fact,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2019\/06\/andrew-mccutchen-torn-acl-knee-phillies.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> tear his ACL<\/a> and will be out for the season<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pray for me. Please<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andrew McCutchen (@TheCUTCH22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCUTCH22\/status\/1135785640430166016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Philadelphia Phillies Andrew McCutchen Injures Knee, Asks For Prayers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As of this posting, the public is still waiting for the results of the MRI to learn the true extent of the injury. For what it&#8217;s worth, McCutchen doesn&#8217;t believe this to be an ACL injury, noting that he &#8220;had an ACL injury before and I know what that feels like. This doesn&#8217;t feel like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manager\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kaplega01.shtml?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabe Kapler<\/a><\/strong> said that\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/register\/player.fcgi?id=hasele000ada&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Haseley<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>will earn a promotion should the injury sideline McCutchen for an extended period of time. Haseley started the season in Double-A but recently earned a promotion to the Triple-A level. In 47 games between the two levels, Haseley owns a .275\/.358\/.466 slash line with a 136 wRC+.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew McCutchen was in the midst of a strong season prior to his injury. Appearing in 59 games, the center fielder recorded a .256\/.378\/.457 slash line with an accompanying 124 wRC+. His fielding and baserunning metrics graded out positively and the former MVP currently has a 1.7 fWAR.<\/p>\n<p>McCutchen initially climbed through the ranks as a prospect with the Pittsburgh Pirates. The righty made his debut back in 2009, posting an impressive .286\/.365\/.471 slash line in 493 plate appearances. His impressive season earned him a fourth-place finish in the Rookie of the Year voting.<\/p>\n<p>McCutchen had an encouraging 2010 season before developing into one of the better center fielders in baseball from 2011 to 2015. Over that five-year stretch, the center fielder posted a .302\/.396\/.509 slash line in 3,358 plate appearances. Over that stretch of time, he made five All-Star team, won four Silver Slugger awards, one Gold Glove, and earned MVP honors in 2013. He also had three other top-five MVP finishes.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"YFc3mVf2QXdRbgYMBnI56Q\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1151715705\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'YFc3mVf2QXdRbgYMBnI56Q',sig:'F5ed1ZtYfF0GFUOazTXNNBQ6wHuyWGOADc2HGSvH4jY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1151715705',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Phillies center fielder Andrew McCutchen suffered a knee injury in Monday&#8217;s loss against the San Diego Padres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2376,"featured_media":20572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1071,35,23],"tags":[610,68,2513,941,69,268],"class_list":["post-20570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb","category-news","category-phillies","tag-andrew-mccutchen","tag-baseball","tag-injured-list","tag-latest-mlb-news","tag-mlb","tag-philadelphia-phillies"],"modified_by":"David Latham, Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2376"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}