White Sox slugger Eloy Jimenez went to the hospital earlier right this moment as a consequence of intense abdomen discomfort, and the group introduced that Jimenez underwent an appendectomy. Jimenez shall be sidelined for “preliminarily” the subsequent 4-6 weeks whereas he recovers.
Supervisor Pedro Grifol advised the Chicago Sun-Times’ Daryl Van Schouwen and different reporters earlier right this moment that Jimenez felt discomfort final evening, and was admitted to hospital after the ache worsened in the course of the evening. If there’s a silver lining, it’s that Jimenez’s problem was solely the comparatively frequent downside of appendicitis, and hopefully the outfielder shall be absolutely recovered in 4-6 weeks’ time.
Nevertheless, that does mark one more vital absence and one more entry inside an more and more checkered well being historical past for the 26-year-old. Jimenez already spent 10 days on the injured checklist this season as a consequence of a hamstring pressure, he missed over two months of the 2022 season with one other hamstring problem, and his first sport of the 2021 marketing campaign didn’t come till July 26 as a consequence of a ruptured left pectoral tendon.
Jimenez was roughly a league-average hitter in 2021, however batted .295/.358/.500 with 16 house runs over 327 plate appearances final season. This 12 months, regardless of being slowed by the hamstring downside, Jimenez has a productive .258/.321/.423 slash line in 106 PA, even whereas persevering with his sample of exhausting contact and a number of swing-and-miss.
Even with a modest 104 wRC+, Jimenez was nonetheless one of many extra productive hitters on a struggling White Sox group, and his absence will now solely add to what’s more and more wanting like a disastrous season. At present’s 5-3 loss to the Reds dropped Chicago to an 11-23 document, and even earlier this week, MLBTR’s Steve Adams wrote about which gamers could be shopped by the Sox on the deadline. It’s going to be rather a lot tougher for the Southsiders to dig themselves out of this early gap with out Jimenez within the lineup, which solely will increase the possibilities that Chicago shall be seeking to be sellers in some regard by August 1.
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