{"id":115900,"date":"2025-06-19T16:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/115900\/"},"modified":"2025-06-19T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T16:47:09","slug":"d-backs-place-gabriel-moreno-on-injured-list-select-aramis-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/115900\/","title":{"rendered":"D-backs Place Gabriel Moreno On Injured List, Select Aramis Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diamondbacks announced Thursday that they\u2019ve placed catcher Gabriel Moreno<\/a> on the 10-day injured list due to a right hand contusion (retroactive to June 16) and selected the contract of fellow catcher Aramis Garcia<\/a> from Triple-A Reno. Righty Christian Montes De Oca<\/a> was transferred from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL to open a 40-man spot for Garcia, who returns just nine days after being outrighted off the 40-man roster.<\/p>\n

Moreno originally hurt his hand while trying to block a wild pitch earlier this month. He\u2019s played just three games in 12 days since taking that errant pitch off his hand. Arizona was clearly hoping to avoid an IL stint, but things have reached a point where they\u2019ll sit him down for the next week and get another catching option on the roster to complement Jose Herrera<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old Moreno is enjoying another solid all-around year. The former top prospect\u2019s .270\/.324\/.414 batting line isn\u2019t elite but is firmly above league average (106 wRC+). That\u2019s big production from any catcher, a position that is regularly manned by below-average hitters, but it\u2019s especially nice for a player with Moreno\u2019s elite defensive grades. He draws plus marks for his framing, blocking and throwing alike. Since 2023, he ranks as the game\u2019s third-best defender behind the plate, by measure of the Defensive Runs Saved metric, and the seventh-best in MLB according to Statcast. Because Moreno\u2019s IL stint is backdated three days (the maximum allowed under MLB rules), he\u2019ll be eligible to return a week from now.<\/p>\n

As for Garcia, he\u2019s a 32-year-old journeyman who was briefly up with the Snakes in the wake of the original injury to Moreno. He only appeared in one game, however, and didn\u2019t take a plate appearance before being designated for assignment and passed through waivers. He\u2019s played in parts of six big league seasons and carries a career .211\/.248\/.325 line in 327 trips to the plate during that time. He currently sports a .250\/.399\/.524 line in 38 Triple-A games and is a career .235\/.306\/.430 hitter in parts of seven seasons at that level.<\/p>\n

Presumably, Garcia will see a bit more game action this time around. Herrera, who\u2019ll serve as the primary catcher with Moreno down, has played eight games in 12 days since Moreno was originally banged up. It\u2019s a heavy workload for any catcher but particularly a glove-first backup who\u2019s hitting .171\/.284\/.244. Herrera is up to 101 plate appearances this year \u2014 already just 23 shy of his career-high in the majors, where he\u2019s a lifetime .199\/.279\/.256 hitter.<\/p>\n

The 60-day IL move for Montes De Oca was an inevitability. The 25-year-old righty landed on the injured list earlier this month due to elbow inflammation, but the D-backs announced five days ago<\/a> that he was headed for surgery to repair a stress fracture in his lower back. That surgery was likely to take him out for most or all of the remaining season anyhow \u2014 a miserable turn of events for a young hurler who\u2019d tossed 2 2\/3 innings of scoreless ball in his MLB debut just days prior to landing on the injured list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks announced Thursday that they\u2019ve placed catcher Gabriel Moreno on the 10-day injured list due to a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[21108,5,12307,5993,11347,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-115900","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-aramis-garcia","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-christian-montes-de-oca","11":"tag-gabriel-moreno","12":"tag-jose-herrera","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114711052224994539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}