{"id":2459079,"date":"2026-06-14T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2459079"},"modified":"2026-06-14T15:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T15:09:49","slug":"vinnie-pasquantino-to-the-il-with-a-right-hamate-fracture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/vinnie-pasquantino-to-the-il-with-a-right-hamate-fracture\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinnie Pasquantino to the IL with a right hamate fracture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As expected, Vinnie Pasquantino has been placed on the 10-day IL following a pop-up that appeared to injure his right hand during last night\u2019s game. The injury is being described as a right hamate fracture, which is quite bad for the Royals\u2019 first baseman and another brutal injury blow for a team that wasn\u2019t playing well enough before everyone started getting hurt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Vinnie was not having the season he or anyone else wanted, but he\u2019d been doing better lately. He was slashing .224\/.309\/.350\/.660 for the year, but .289\/.372\/.408\/.780 over his last 20 games and .316\/.381\/.474\/.855 over his last 10. The Royals will miss his bat in the middle of the order.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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To replace Vinnie on the roster, the Royals have recalled John Rave. Rave is a 28-year-old, left-handed outfielder who debuted for Kansas City last year. He slashed .196\/.283\/.307\/.590 in 72 games for the big league club. He has been slashing .278\/.395\/.475\/.880 for the Omaha Stormchasers this season. He\u2019s also been walking more and striking out less than he did in the minors last season, so perhaps he can offer more than he did last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Rave\u2019s biggest problem would seem to be that he\u2019s too passive at the plate, but he also doesn\u2019t hit the ball hard consistently despite a more than respectable .197 ISO for the year. He\u2019s been known for his speed and defense at the minor league level, though that didn\u2019t always show up in the big leagues last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Hamate injuries are notoriously difficult for hitters to overcome. If you want to read more, MLB.com has a detailed article<\/a> on the subject, thanks to hamate injuries affecting stars like Corbin Carroll, Francisco Lindor, and Jackson Holliday earlier this year. The recovery timeline is 4-8 weeks, but not everyone is at full strength upon their return.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Blake Mitchell suffered a hamate bone injury last year and basically lost his ability to hit for power, even once he returned, hitting far fewer extra-base hits in 2025 than he did in 2024 or has in 2026. There has been a wide range of outcomes even among the people who have had the surgery this year. Carroll didn\u2019t miss a beat, Holliday is hitting for more power than ever (though still struggling as a hitter overall), but Lindor is having by far the worst season of his Hall of Fame career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Even if Vinnie returns in a month, the Royals were floundering with<\/em> him in the lineup. Thanks to Buddy Bell, no Royals fan would ever say things can\u2019t get worse, but it\u2019s hard to imagine the Royals being even as close as they currently are to competing whenever Vinnie returns.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.royalsreview.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As expected, Vinnie Pasquantino has been placed on the 10-day IL following a pop-up that appeared to injure his right hand during last night\u2019s game. The injury is being described as a right hamate fracture, which is quite bad for the Royals\u2019 first baseman and another brutal injury blow for a team that wasn\u2019t playing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2459080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[456082],"class_list":["post-2459079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-kansas-city-royals-injuries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Vinnie-Pasquantino-to-the-IL-with-a-right-hamate-fracture.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2459081,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459079\/revisions\/2459081"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}