Kirilloff Having Wrist Surgery

[Vanimal46]

Hope it’s not too long of a recovery….

[Vanimal46]

[Vanimal46]

[Brock Beauchamp]

This season is so much fun I can't even take it anymore.

[Vanimal46]

Just now, Brock Beauchamp said:

This season is so much fun I can't even take it anymore.

Not much to tune in for these days… This was one of the very few things keeping me mildly interested. 

[wsnydes]

But of course he is!  We can't have nice things this season.

Wouldn't expect anything different this season, unfortunately.

[Connor Gould]

Season's over anyways, might as well avoid worsening this and just get it over with I guess. I am a little worried about Kirilloff's health since he had a wrist issue mess with his 2019 and now it happened again, but hopefully it's all good. Regardless, a big blow for watchability. On the bright side, now Sano can play every day these last 2 months so that we can know for sure if we should dump him in the offseason or not.

[jmlease1]

at least he showed he could be a quality bat in MLB before getting shut down? Looking at his July numbers, you'd have to think the injury is bothering him more and decided something needed to be done. Can't blame him in a lost season.

Sucks, but at this point I just want a healthy Kirilloff for 2022.

[AceWrigley]

[ashbury]

This is one of Randball's Stu satire pieces, right?

[strumdatjag]

This puts Alex are on the 60 Il, I think. 

[glunn]

Let all of the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.

[notoriousgod71]

Thank god cave is nearly back!

[lukeduke1980]

How does injury list time affect his service clock?

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 minutes ago, lukeduke1980 said:

How does injury list time affect his service clock?

It doesn’t change anything. He continues to accumulate service time. 

[jorgenswest]

I think someone wrote here a while back about his exit velocity dropping after the injury. A healthy Kirilloff in 2022 is a priority right now.

[operation mindcrime]

1 minute ago, lukeduke1980 said:

How does injury list time affect his service clock?

I'm no expert but I don't believe it does. I believe you still accrue service time if you're injured.

[operation mindcrime]

8 minutes ago, notoriousgod71 said:

Thank god cave is nearly back!

Refsnyder and Garlick are close behind. 

[wsnydes]

If this is a long term recovery thing, it makes perfect sense to deal with it now and be healthy for spring training.  No sense is putting him behind for next season at this point.

[bighat]

So in a lost season, here's what's going on with the Twins' top prospects. We've got Kiriloff, Jhoan Duran, Royce Lewis (remember him?) out for the year, an overmatched Trevor Larnach spiraling into obscurity, and Jordan Balazovic logging innings down in Wichita, with the best possible scenario being an unlikely September start.

[Seth Stohs]

Certainly not unexpected. They said when he came off the IL that it was a possibility but that he could play through it until the pain got bad again. I assume that's what happened, and they just decided now was a good time to get it done. 

[roger]

Hopefully, with the surgery he will be 100% come spring and can put this behind him.  I don't recall, did he also have surgery in 2019?  It was the same wrist, wasn't it?

In any case, I assume his season is over.

[Mike Sixel]

Hate it when guys get hurt like this. Good luck to him.

[Danchat]

This sucks, but as Seth said it’s not a huge surprise. Just gotta hope his wrist holds up from now on. Now Kepler and Sano can go back to playing full time in their old roles, though I thought they might bring Rooker up to play some 1B. Perhaps he’s DH-only at this point.

[Vanimal46]

Mid to late September return? I doubt they risk playing him the rest of the year. 

[Mike Sixel]

1 minute ago, Vanimal46 said:

Mid to late September return? I doubt they risk playing him the rest of the year. 

They better not!

[Vanimal46]

12 minutes ago, Danchat said:

This sucks, but as Seth said it’s not a huge surprise. Just gotta hope his wrist holds up from now on. Now Kepler and Sano can go back to playing full time in their old roles, though I thought they might bring Rooker up to play some 1B. Perhaps he’s DH-only at this point.

My guess is Rooker is the call up when Cruz is traded. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

42 minutes ago, Vanimal46 said:

Mid to late September return? I doubt they risk playing him the rest of the year. 

I think it depends on Kirilloff. Sometimes these young guys heal and rehab faster than normal. If he’s ready to go in early September, they may as well put him on the roster, even if he doesn’t play every day. 

[beckmt]

no rooker, no cave.  Bring up Garlick.

[a-wan]

Strib article says usually rehab is 8 weeks. 
 

And cue posters coming out of woodwork bitching about soft Twins’ players.