{"id":86508,"date":"2024-09-25T22:43:21","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T02:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=86508"},"modified":"2024-09-25T22:45:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T02:45:01","slug":"orioles-grayson-rodriguez-out-2024-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/25\/orioles-grayson-rodriguez-out-2024-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Orioles Lose Another Starter to a Season-Ending Injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Baltimore Orioles have yet another starting pitcher out for the season after right-hander <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/rodrigr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grayson Rodriguez<\/a> was shut down on Wednesday.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Rodriguez<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has been shut down and will not pitch for Baltimore again this season, according to manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/managers\/hydebr99.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brandon Hyde<\/a>. The young right-hander was the last remaining Orioles player on the injured list with a chance to return this season.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Orioles won&#8217;t have Grayson Rodriguez for their playoff run <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uPnwqEgKWE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/uPnwqEgKWE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Talkin\u2019 Baseball (@TalkinBaseball_) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TalkinBaseball_\/status\/1839052511396901029?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">September 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodriguez last pitched against the Toronto Blue Jays on July 31st. He allowed three earned runs and struck out eight in what has become his final six innings of the season. Rodriguez was scheduled to start against the Blue Jays again in Toronto <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/08\/06\/orioles-starter-scratched-grayson-rodriguez\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">but was scratched<\/a> 10 minutes before the first pitch after throwing in the outfield. He went on the 15-day injured list with a right lat\/teres strain on August 7th and had hoped to return for the postseason. The second-year starter was throwing in the bullpen, but as of this weekend, the team doctors had not cleared him to face live hitters. General manager Mike Elias said that &#8220;time and the calendar is not exactly our friend here,&#8221; when asked about Rodriguez last week. Now the former first-round pick will focus on getting healthy for next season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to get him ready for 2025,\u201d Hyde told reporters on Wednesday. \u201cJust ran out of time with him. It\u2019s disappointing and tough, but he\u2019s so talented and a huge part of our rotation going forward. We just ran out of time with him.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Orioles Right-Hander Grayson Rodriguez Out for 2024 Season<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodriguez began the season as Baltimore\u2019s No. 2 starter behind ace <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burneco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Corbin Burnes<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who the Orioles acquired in February. He made six starts before experiencing <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/05\/18\/orioles-grayson-rodriguez-returning-saturday\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">right shoulder inflammation<\/a> in April and spending roughly three weeks on the injured list. Rodriguez finishes his second season in the majors with a 13-4 record and a 3.86 ERA. He struck out 130 batters in 116 \u2154 innings over 20 starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe was progressing fine,\u201d Hyde said. \u201cIt\u2019s normally an injury which takes some time, and to get him back for the playoffs was going to be a little bit of a rush. We just felt like for his health, his future, it was the right thing to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rodriguez missed three months with a similar shoulder injury with Triple-A Norfolk in 2022. Elias told reporters in August that this shoulder strain appeared \u201crelatively mild and much less severe than the one that he had in 2022.\u201d The 24-year-old joins teammates <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bradiky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Bradish<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/meansjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Means<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=wellsty01,wells-006tyl,wells-004tyl&amp;search=Tyler+Wells&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tyler Wells<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the latest Orioles starter to suffer a <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/06\/19\/orioles-kyle-bradish-tommy-john-surgery\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">season-ending arm injury<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the injuries and their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/09\/19\/orioles-struggles-postseason\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">second-half slump<\/a>, Baltimore clinched a postseason berth with their win over New York on Tuesday. This marked the first time in 27 years that the Orioles clinched back-to-back postseason berths. As it stands with Rodriguez shut down, right-handers <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/e\/eflinza01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zach Eflin<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/k\/kremede01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-09-25_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dean Kremer<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will join Burnes as Baltimore\u2019s postseason starters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Reggie Hildred-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Orioles have yet another starting pitcher out for the season after right-hander Grayson Rodriguez was shut down on Wednesday.\u00a0Rodriguez has been shut down and will not pitch for Baltimore again this season, according to manager Brandon Hyde. The young right-hander was the last remaining Orioles player on the injured list with a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4975,"featured_media":86521,"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":[3,1071,35],"tags":[2527,2231,2057,2030,2544,3251,5554,6077],"class_list":["post-86508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-orioles","category-mlb","category-news","tag-brandon-hyde","tag-corbin-burnes","tag-dean-kremer","tag-grayson-rodriguez","tag-john-means","tag-kyle-bradish","tag-tyler-wells","tag-zach-eflin"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86508","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\/4975"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}