{"id":70495,"date":"2024-04-12T21:35:31","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=70495"},"modified":"2024-04-12T21:35:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T01:35:53","slug":"brandon-lowe-il-oblique-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/04\/12\/brandon-lowe-il-oblique-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Rays Place Veteran Infielder on IL with Oblique Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays placed second baseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/lowebr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Lowe<\/a> on the 10-day IL on Friday with a right oblique strain. The move is retroactive to Tuesday 4\/9, so the veteran infielder will sit out at least another week.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Tampa Bay Rays have placed INF Brandon Lowe on the 10-Day Injured List with a right oblique strain (retro to 4\/9) and recalled INF\/OF Niko Goodrum from Triple-A Durham.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rays Communications (@RaysPR) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RaysPR\/status\/1778836469831901607?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Brandon Lowe Placed on IL with Oblique Strain<\/h2>\n<p>Lowe was off to a slow start in 2o24 prior to his injury. In eight games played, he was 5-for-30 (.185 average) with a homer, four RBI, a .600 OPS, and a 75 OPS+. Lowe scored three runs in those eight games. The Rays will hope the injury remains a short-term one, as the 29-year-old has spent multiple seasons as one of the team&#8217;s top hitters. In 2019, he finished third in American League Rookie of the Year voting and made the All-Star team. Lowe finished in the Top 10 in AL MVP voting for the next two seasons.<\/p>\n<p>His career year thus far came in 2021. Despite hitting only .247, Lowe slugged 39 homers, drove in 99 runs, and compiled a .863 OPS (a career-high for a full season, with 2020 being excluded). Injuries have been a problem for Lowe over the last two seasons and his numbers have suffered as a result. However, his power resurged a bit last season, hitting 21 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/francwa01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wander Franco<\/a> remaining on <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/28\/rays-all-star-shortstop-placed-on-administrative-leave\/\" target=\"_self\">administrative leave<\/a> for the foreseeable future, this injury news stretches the Rays infield even thinner. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rosaram01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amed Rosario<\/a> replaced Lowe at second base in Friday&#8217;s 2-1 win against the San Francisco Giants. It&#8217;s fair to expect Rosario will get the bulk of playing time there in Lowe&#8217;s absence. In a corresponding move to the IL placement, the Rays recalled utilityman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/goodrni01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-04-12_br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Niko Goodrum<\/a> from Triple-A Durham. The 32-year-old Goodrum is most well-known for the four seasons he spent with the Detroit Tigers. He has not played in a major league game since suiting up for the Houston Astros on May 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Isaiah J. Downing-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tampa Bay Rays placed second baseman Brandon Lowe on the 10-day IL on Friday with a right oblique strain. The move is retroactive to Tuesday 4\/9, so the veteran infielder will sit out at least another week. The Tampa Bay Rays have placed INF Brandon Lowe on the 10-Day Injured List with a right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":70499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[6,1071,35],"tags":[1517,2447,5529,2934],"class_list":["post-70495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rays","category-mlb","category-news","tag-amed-rosario","tag-brandon-lowe","tag-niko-goodrum","tag-wander-franco"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495","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\/3931"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}