Kansas City Royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek was placed on the 15-day list Saturday with a sprained satisfactory .
Kansas City Royals second baseman Mark Grudzielanek was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a sprained fair ankle.
Grudzielanek, 38, the hurt when he with Royals main baseman Ross Gload while making a catch in shallow just field during Fridays 4-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
A 14-year veteran, Grudzielanek is batting .299 with homers and 24 RBI in 86 games this time of year, his third with Kansas City.
In a analogous move, the Royals purchased the indenture of Jason Smith from Class AAA Omaha. Smith was batting .253 with team highs of 20 and 62 RBI for Omaha.
To make room for Smith on the roster, the Royals designated righthander Yasuhiko Yabuta for designation. A 35-year-old novice from Japan, Yabuta went 1-3 with a 5.46 ERA in 26 help appearances for Kansas City.
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The Oakland Athletics on Saturday righthander Joey Devine, who had been for more than two months, from the 15-day list.
Devine was placed on the DL May 30 - ex post facto to May 26 - with a righward shove inflammation. He began a duty with Class AAA Sacramento on Monday and made two starts, including a loss at Round Rock on Monday, when he recognized four runs in one inning. He then tossed a scoreless frame at Nashville on Thursday but did get a decision.
Devine is 3-0 with a 1.23 ERA in 18 release with Oakland this year.
To make room for Devine on the roster, the Athletics baseman Brook Conrad to Sacramento of the Pacific Coast League.
Conrad was from Sacramento on July 21 and batted .158 (3-for-19 (.158) in his major league debut. He was batting .242 with 21 home runs and 67 RBI in 93 games with Sacramento at the time of his sponsorship to Oakland.
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With the New York Yankees cooled off subsequent their of late eight-game successful aspect, manager Joe Girardi only if more excuse for the team to be upset near its game chances.
Girardi, who has seen his club lose five of its last six games, shot down any hope of ace Chien-Ming Wang in September.
Wang, who has been since mid-June with a partially torn tendon and a upright foot suffered while running the bases in Houston, is not awaited to begin any consequence-direction military exercises until next week.
After he was placed on the list, Wang remained cheerful that he would be able to make a few starts in September. Girardi, still, has essentially his top starter out for the leftovers of the conventional spell.
The chance of us him back September 1 are zero, he told the New York Daily News. October 1? Its achievable.
Girardis is a different blow for the Yankees, who also have been without Phil Hughes for more than three months. Hughes was placed on the disabled list April 30 with a strained slanting and fissured rib.
The Yankees have been artificial to fill 40 percent of their gyration with journeyman Sidney Ponson, who did toss seven scoreless innings against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim in Fridays 1-0 loss, and unconfirmed Darrell Rasner, who is just 2-7 in his last 10 starts..
Girardi did not rule out using Wang, who won a combined 38 games in the foregoing two , in the .
As long as we felt he was strong, spicy and keen to go, I not (have any disinclination), he said. We have to make sure hes well.
But paramount the Yankees have to get to the playoffs. Their filament of 13 sequential postseason appearances is in risk as they have dropped 5 1/2 games behind Tampa Bay in the American League East Division and 2 1/2 games in back of Boston in the wild card race.