Rollins heads back to disabled list
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday after reinjuring his strained right calf in Friday's game. Wilson Valdez was recalled from triple-A Lehigh Valley to replace Rollins. Juan Castro is starting at shortstop Saturday night. Rollins missed 30 games with the strained right calf earlier in the season. More to come...
Rollins heads back to disabled list
Matt Gelb, Inquirer Staff Writer
Sometime before Saturday’s game, Charlie Manuel and Ruben Amaro Jr. met with Jimmy Rollins. They explained to their injured shortstop there was no need to play around with this newest calf strain. He was going on the disabled list for the second time in 2010.
And, Manuel said, there wasn’t much protest from Rollins.
It’s still May and the Phillies want Rollins’ right calf healthy come the important time of the season in October.
“I hope it’s not an issue all year,” Manuel said. “He’s one of our main players. We want him. We need him. He’s a big part of what we’re trying to achieve.”
Rollins suffered what Amaro called a Grade 1 strain of his right calf during Friday’s game. He had an MRI done Saturday morning before going on the disabled list. This strain is “much, much milder” than the one that kept Rollins out for 30 games earlier in 2010, Amaro said.
“It's a two-week thing,” Amaro said. “I don't see this going much longer than the DL stint.”
Rollins declined to comment Saturday.
To replace him on the roster, the Phillies recalled Wilson Valdez from triple-A Lehigh Valley just one day after he cleared waivers.
Manuel said Valdez and Juan Castro would share the responsibilities at shortstop while Rollins is out. With that pair, the Phillies were 18-12 without Rollins during his first stint on the disabled list.
“It’s hard to tell who I will use,” Manuel said. “Whoever I think is best on that day. I’m concerned about Castro. He gets hurt. But at the same time, Valdez is a good option.”
Before Saturday’s game, Castro said his right knee, which has been injured twice this season, is 100 percent healthy. Castro, 37, has hit .257 with 11 RBIs in 24 games.
Valdez, 32, hit .231 in 18 games before being designated for assignment. Amaro said the Phillies were “very fortunate” that Valdez cleared waivers.
Rollins is eligible to come off the disabled list on June 6.
JRo will be back in two weeks, 3 tops! He's already rested the calf for 4weeks and this was mearly a "tweek" that's scared everyone into beinf super cautious!— kbev87- CLIFF LEE also says he thinks it is nice to see that all the posters out there are not brain dead and they don't mind speaking out against those whose intellect appears a wee bit challenged...— Clee Liff
- World Series Champs, repeat Pennant winners and there are still punks criticizing the manager and management. What have you ever done? Ole Cholly is a WINNER not a whiner!— charladan
- I did not think Manuel was a good Manager until he won three straight divsions, two penants, and a Word Series. Poor R S and Tooltime are foolish.— ameadie
- I am not worrying about it. Now if werth, utley and say hamels all go on the dl yeah I might worry. other than that see you in the WS. idiots— banned4nothing
Jimmy Rollins is Now officially an old broken man! Look what married life did to him..
We've been winning without Rollins in All Star form since 2008. The 2007 MVP numbers that we all remember was a one time deal.- Had the same exact injury 5years ago. Same thing happened, injured it playing ball, reinjured it after a month layoff I was back in two weeks and it has been fine since. It will heal faster this time around.— cuch
- You cannot stop Wilson Valdez, you can only hope to contain him. Go Phillies!!!— flyerdup
- Love J-Roll, but they should have never picked up his option a year early. Rather, they should have moved him and his $8.5MM per year he's owed, and found another defensive SS at half the price (like the way the Red Sox landed Marco Scutaro for $4MM per year), and saved the $4.5MM for other needs. Like scraping together enough money to extend Werth. I mean, seriously, does anyone think we're better off long-term with an aging Rollins at $8.5MM next year with no Werth, or Scutaro and Werth (with no Rollins). I'd take the latter every day of the week and twice on Sundays. Particularly when you have better leadoff hitters in your lineup already (see Victorino and Polanco). Part of being an elite team is having dynamic personnel folks that make hard decisions. You replace pieces when they start to decline and get value in return before there is no value left. It would be sad to see Jimmy go, but on a team of All-Stars he's the most expendable. Witness the Phils' play without him. But we've got his option for next year already and we're on the hook for $11MM to Ibanez too (not to mention the $8MM we're paying Moyer this year). Boy, that $26MM sure would be handy (net $22MM if we had someone like Scutaro rather than Rollins, net $21MM if we lived with Francisco in LF instead of Ibanez). Seems like some decent scratch to help keep the likes of Werth and Lee in the fold. Now watch Oswalt go to the Mets, Dodgers or another contender while we wonder who's gonna step up game in and game out after Halladay. Maybe Hamels, maybe not. Blanton? Moyer? Kendrick??? Yikes. Here's to building as a big a lead before the All-Star break as possible. And here's to hoping Roy's arm doesn't fall off (or more realistically, go dead on September 30).— bm2626
- Folks, "cholly" won us the series once and took us there a second time against the Yanks--remember? In the past two years, his record puts him among elites in the sport. So back off and give him some slack.— mctator
- Tooltime sounds like a really fun guy to watch a game with.— moosemug
- Wow, a lot of medical profesionals chiming in I see! LOL...— DJ
- After watching Kendrick tonight again it reminds me how good Oswalt would look in phillies pin stripes and in our rotation— Bob Crogan
- I trust the players, I trust Cholly, I trust the front office. Everyone else can shut up. (Except for the commenters who told the stupid people to shut up.)— andrewfrombrooklyn
