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Friday, August 12, 2011

Choo activated from the disabled list

11:18 AM  Tony  1 comment

Shin-Soo Choo
The Indians have activated outfielder Shin-Soo Choo from the 15-day disabled list today. He had been on the disabled list since June 25th after suffering a fractured left thumb after being hit by a pitch the night before in San Francisco. He underwent surgery on the thumb on June 28th in Cleveland by Dr. Thomas Graham.

Choo made a three game rehab assignment at Low-A Lake County this past week where in three games he went 0-for-8. After playing a full game last night without any setbacks, the Indians deemed him ready. In 72 games prior to the injury he was hitting .244 (65-266) with 10 doubles, 2 triples, 5 homers, 28 RBI and 11 steals.

To allow room on the 25-man roster the Indians designated outfielder Austin Kearns for assignment. He hit .200 (30-150) in 57 games for the Indians this year after signing a one-year free agent contract with the club in the offseason.

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1 comments:

And the peasants rejoice. Kearns, like Adam Everett and Jensen Lewis, is great guy who doesn't have what it takes anymore. Still will remember his one game winning homer this year. Hey, at least it's something.

I think it will take Choo a while offensively to contribute. Hopefully he can get back to the hot streak he was on before the injury. I do believe he will immediately impact the team defensively, as teams will be wary to go from 1st to 3rd on singles hit to right field.

I hope on the first routine single to right field he fires a bullet to second, just to let the Twins know to be wary.

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