{"id":92257,"date":"2025-06-10T01:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/92257\/"},"modified":"2025-06-10T01:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T01:52:10","slug":"diamondbacks-place-kendall-graveman-on-15-day-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/92257\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamondbacks Place Kendall Graveman On 15-Day IL"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Diamondbacks announced that right-hander Kendall Graveman<\/a> was placed on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to June 8) due to an impingement in his right hip.\u00a0 Righty Christian Montes De Oca<\/a> was called up from Triple-A Reno to take Graveman\u2019s spot on the active roster.<\/p>\n

After missing all of 2024 recovering from shoulder surgery, Graveman\u2019s 2025 debut was delayed until May 13 due to a season-opening stint on the 15-day IL due to a lumbar strain.\u00a0 Graveman then posted a 2.45 ERA over his first 7 1\/3 innings and eight appearances for the Snakes before he struggled through a brutal outing in Saturday\u2019s 13-1 Arizona loss to the Reds.\u00a0 Graveman was charged with six earned runs over just one inning of work, shooting his ERA up from 2.45 to 8.64.<\/p>\n

It is fair to wonder if this hip problem was to blame for Graveman\u2019s rough game, though some other red flags were there even before he took the mound on Saturday.\u00a0 Graveman has more walks (five) than strikeouts (three) over 8 1\/3 total innings, and his 30% grounder rate is well below the 50.9% career groundball rate Graveman had posted over his nine previous big league seasons.\u00a0 His signature sinker is averaging 94.6mph, which is down from a 95.9mph average in 2023, though an early-season velocity drop isn\u2019t unusual for a pitcher just coming back from a long layoff.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Graveman, that nightmare against Cincinnati will represent his last game for at least a couple of weeks.\u00a0 This latest trip to the IL can hopefully allow the veteran to fully put his health issues behind him, and an in-form Gravement would sorely help a struggling D\u2019Backs bullpen.\u00a0 Given how Arizona has a 31-34 record, Graveman (who is only signed through the 2025 season, with a mutual option for 2026) would be an obvious trade chip as a rental player if the Diamondbacks can\u2019t get back into contention.<\/p>\n

In other unwelcome news on the pitching injury front, righty Cristian Mena<\/a>\u2019s right shoulder strain is specifically a teres major strain, as manger Torey Lovullo told Arizona Sports\u2019 Alex Weiner<\/a> and other reporters.\u00a0 Mena was placed on the 15-day IL on Saturday, but Lovullo said Mena\u2019s absence will be measured in \u201cweeks, not days.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Mena made his MLB debut with one three-inning start with the D\u2019Backs last season, and this year had allowed one run in 6 2\/3 innings over three relief appearances.\u00a0 Mena was a candidate for some turns in the rotation given all of the injury problems faced by Arizona\u2019s starters, but the righty himself has now joined the IL for what might be a lengthy period of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Diamondbacks announced that right-hander Kendall Graveman was placed on the 15-day injured list (retroactive to June 8)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92258,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,12307,18794,5992,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-92257","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-christian-montes-de-oca","10":"tag-cristian-mena","11":"tag-kendall-graveman","12":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114656571839624099","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92257","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=92257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}