{"id":94764,"date":"2025-06-11T02:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/94764\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T02:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T02:13:09","slug":"giants-place-matt-chapman-on-10-day-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/94764\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants Place Matt Chapman On 10-Day Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Giants announced today that they\u2019ve placed third baseman Matt Chapman<\/a> on the 10-day injured list with a sprained right hand. Infielder Christian Koss<\/a> was recalled to the club\u2019s roster to replace Chapman. The infielder spoke at length Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> and Maria Guardado of MLB.com<\/a> about his injury, noting that he\u2019s certain to miss more than the minimum ten days after injuring his hand while diving towards third base in the eighth inning of the club\u2019s game on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Chapman indicated that he\u2019s suffering from sprains in three of the fingers on his right hand, and each of those three fingers also has a bone bruise. The third baseman\u2019s exact timeline for return is not yet clear, but he said he hopes to be back in action before the end of the first half. That suggests he hopes to return at some point before the All-Star break begins on July 14, although Slusser adds that Chapman is set to meet with hand specialist Dr. Steven Shin in Los Angeles on Friday and that the team will know more about his exact timeline for return after that meeting.<\/p>\n

Even a few weeks without Chapman would be a frustrating bump in the road for a Giants team that has managed to outperform expectations in a big way this year, as they currently sit just 1.5 games back of the Dodgers in the NL West and firmly entrenched in the Wild Card mix. Chapman\u2019s been a major part of that success so far, as he\u2019s slashed an excellent .243\/.360\/.452 with a wRC+ of 134 while playing his typical excellent defense at the hot corner. That package has been enough to generate 2.5 fWAR in just 65 games, a figure that just nine players in the NL have managed to top so far this season. On top of his excellent season-long production, the veteran was also in the midst of a particularly hot stretch as he had been hitting .322\/.429\/.610 with a wRC+ of 194 over his past 17 games.<\/p>\n

Replacing Chapman on the roster is Koss, who made his big league debut for San Francisco earlier this year. He hasn\u2019t hit much in the majors yet, with a career slash line of just .219\/.275\/.266 (57 wRC+) across 29 games. Koss is an impressive and versatile defender, however, and he\u2019ll likely slide into the utility role Casey Schmitt<\/a> was previously getting used in while Schmitt takes over for Chapman at the hot corner. The 26-year-old seemed to enjoy something of a breakout last year when he posted a 109 wRC+ in 40 games, but this year he\u2019s hit just .180\/.281\/.240 across 20 games despite fairly strong peripheral numbers. Perhaps sliding into an everyday role while Chapman is out of commission will give Schmitt the opportunities he needs to play closer to his peripheral numbers, which suggest he can be an average-to-above average hitter in the majors if he can turn that underlying performance into on-field production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Giants announced today that they\u2019ve placed third baseman Matt Chapman on the 10-day injured list with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7885,379,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-94764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-christian-koss","10":"tag-matt-chapman","11":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114662316739407776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94764","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=94764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}