Athletics designated hitter Brent Rooker volition acquisition country to repair a cartilage teardrop successful his near genu and miss the remainder of the season.
“This is simply a large blow,” manager Mark Kotsay said Wednesday earlier the A’s played the Los Angeles Dodgers. “It’s a middle-of-the-order bat. It’s a feline that produced for america offensively for the past 3 seasons with 30-plus homers.
“There’s not 1 feline that is going to travel successful present and measurement successful with that benignant of production. We’ll bash our champion to capable that void and marque the champion of the situation.”
The teardrop was discovered during an introspection Tuesday astatine Stanford.
A two-time All-Star, Rooker hasn’t played since June 8.
Rooker played successful each 162 games successful 2025 but was successful and retired of the lineup this play owed to his genu and a nagging oblique issue. The 31-year-old slugger was batting .200 with 10 location runs and 29 RBIs earlier helium was placed connected the injured database June 12, retroactive to June 9.
In summation to Rooker being sidelined, 3 different A’s starters landed connected the IL successful precocious June: infielders Zack Gelof (bruised close hand) and Jacob Wilson (right thumb inflammation), and near fielder Tyler Soderstrom (left hep impingement).
Lasko undergoes vertebra surgery
Athletics imaginable Ryan Lasko was successful unchangeable information aft undergoing backmost country Tuesday nighttime pursuing a scary collision with insignificant league teammate Devin Taylor during a Double-A crippled successful Frisco, Texas.
Dr. Jonathan Poggi performed the spinal decompression and stabilization cognition astatine Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano to code a fractured C6—C7 vertebra.
Lasko is an outfielder with Double-A Midland. He and Taylor dove into each different trying to drawback a flyball, and Lasko remained motionless connected the tract aft the play.
“I’ve been successful interaction with Ryan’s mom, Patti, to walk on the organization’s enactment and to fto her cognize that each of us, passim our system, person them successful our thoughts and prayers,” A’s wide manager David Forst said successful a connection Wednesday. “We are incredibly grateful to Noah Huff and Audy Merrick, our diversion trainers successful Midland, for their on-field actions past night, arsenic good arsenic to the Frisco RoughRiders and the paramedics connected the scene.
“We are encouraged by the reports and updates from Dr. Poggi, and we volition proceed to enactment each of the resources of our aesculapian unit towards supporting Ryan and his recovery.”
Forst added that subordinate improvement manager Ed Sprague was traveling to Frisco and counseling volition beryllium disposable to players.
The 24-year-old Lasko was selected by the Athletics successful the 2nd circular of the 2023 amateur draught from Rutgers. He was batting .209 with six homers, 34 RBIs and a .635 OPS for Midland this season.
Lasko appeared successful 13 games astatine Triple-A Las Vegas past year. He besides played 21 games successful the Arizona Fall League for promising prospects, batting .357 with 9 stolen bases.
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