{"id":75675,"date":"2024-06-03T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=75675"},"modified":"2024-06-03T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2024-06-04T03:13:33","slug":"blake-snell-injured-list-groin-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/03\/blake-snell-injured-list-groin-strain\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Send Star Lefty to IL with Groin Strain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants placed left-handed starter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/snellbl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blake Snell<\/a>, on the 15-day injured list Monday. Snell will be sidelined for at least the next couple of weeks with a left groin strain. Just when the Giants were getting good injury news with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/03\/conforto-return-from-injury\/\" target=\"_self\">activation<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/confomi01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-06-03_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Michael Conforto<\/a>, they suffered a setback by losing their biggest offseason acquisition for a good part of June.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Giants placed Blake Snell on the 15-day IL with a groin injury.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ken_Rosenthal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Ken_Rosenthal<\/a> has more on what to expect. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CGHarJq8dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/CGHarJq8dc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBONFOX\/status\/1797801091695853603?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Giants&#8217; Blake Snell Heads to Injured List with Groin Strain<\/h2>\n<p>As Ken Rosenthal stated in the interview above, Snell already missed time this season with a similar injury. He was out for roughly a month and had made three starts since his return. Even aside from the injuries, Snell&#8217;s tenure in San Fran is off to a rocky start. In six starts, he is 0-3 with a 9.51 ERA, 1.944 WHIP, and an ERA+ of only 40. It is a far cry from his final season with the San Diego Padres last year. He won his second career Cy Young Award (first in the National League) with a major league-best 2.25 ERA. That was the second-best mark of his career, as he put up a 1.89 in 2018 with the Tampa Bay Rays, leading to his first Cy Young.<\/p>\n<p>Snell found his <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/03\/18\/blake-snell-new-home-giants\/\" target=\"_self\">new home<\/a> this offseason on a generous short-term deal, signing a two-year, $62 million contract with an opt-out after this year. While the move up the West Coast hasn&#8217;t panned out yet, the injury issues may be playing a big role. Snell&#8217;s three-year tenure with the Padres also got off to a rough start, albeit not to this extent. In 2021, he pitched to a 4.40 ERA, the second-worst mark of his career (4.29 in 2019). His 69 walks that year probably helped inflate that figure. Despite last year&#8217;s award-winning campaign, Snell led the majors by issuing 99 free passes. If Snell can do a better job limiting walks once he comes off the IL, it is likely his numbers will start to even out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 John Hefti-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Giants placed left-handed starter Blake Snell, on the 15-day injured list Monday. Snell will be sidelined for at least the next couple of weeks with a left groin strain. Just when the Giants were getting good injury news with the activation of Michael Conforto, they suffered a setback by losing their biggest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3931,"featured_media":75679,"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":[31,1071,35],"tags":[1122,689],"class_list":["post-75675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-giants","category-mlb","category-news","tag-blake-snell","tag-michael-conforto"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75675","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=75675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}