{"id":669053,"date":"2026-04-07T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669053\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:42:28","slug":"diamondbacks-carlos-santana-to-il-with-with-adductor-strain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/669053\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks’ Carlos Santana to IL with with adductor strain"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK — Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a> first baseman Carlos Santana<\/a>, the oldest active position player in the majors, was placed on the 10-day injured list Tuesday with a right adductor strain.<\/p>\n

Manager Torey Lovullo said he didn’t know the severity of the strain but expected Santana, 39, to be sidelined beyond the 10-day minimum. The move is retroactive to Monday.<\/p>\n

“He’s going to miss some time,” Lovullo said before the opener of a three-game series against the New York Mets<\/a>. “We’re not looking at 10 days. It’s going to be a little bit longer than that.”<\/p>\n

Santana suffered the injury during his lone plate appearance Sunday and was lifted for a pinch runner.<\/p>\n

The IL stint is just the fifth in Santana’s 17-year career and likely will result in his longest absence since his rookie season with Cleveland in 2010, when he missed the final two months with a sprained left knee. Cleveland placed him on the seven-day concussion list in 2012 and ’14 before he had a brief IL stint with the Kansas City Royals<\/a> in May 2022 because of right ankle bursitis.<\/p>\n

To replace Santana, who went 2-for-24 with no RBIs in eight games, the Diamondbacks selected the contract of first baseman Luken Baker from Triple-A Reno.<\/p>\n

Baker was added to the 40-man roster in place of outfielder Jordan Lawlar<\/a>, who was shifted to the 60-day injured list. Lawlar is sidelined with a fractured right wrist suffered when he was hit by a pitch last Thursday.<\/p>\n

Lovullo said Baker will vie for time at first base with Ildemaro Vargas<\/a> and Jose Fernandez<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Baker, who hit .206 with four homers and 22 RBIs in 73 games for the St. Louis Cardinals<\/a> the previous three seasons, signed a minor league deal with the Diamondbacks in January. He was batting .242 with one homer and five RBIs in nine games at Reno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK — Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Carlos Santana, the oldest active position player in the majors, was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,2328,2304,4,2305,2303],"class_list":{"0":"post-669053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","10":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-mlb-playoffs","13":"tag-mlb-postseason"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116365370695435099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669053","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=669053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}