A's lose six to Covid

[Going Underground]

The A’s announced this evening they’ve placed six players — catcher Austin Allen, infielders Jed Lowrie and Chad Pinder, and pitchers A.J. Puk, Lou Trivino and Kirby Snead on the COVID-19 injured list. Infielders Nick Allen and Christian Lopes and reliever Sam Selman have been added to the roster as COVID replacements.

[SteveA]

1 minute ago, Going Underground said:

The A’s announced this evening they’ve placed six players — catcher Austin Allen, infielders Jed Lowrie and Chad Pinder, and pitchers A.J. Puk, Lou Trivino and Kirby Snead on the COVID-19 injured list. Infielders Nick Allen and Christian Lopes and reliever Sam Selman have been added to the roster as COVID replacements.

A few of those guys (Puk I know for sure) were already on a reserve list because they didn't make the trip to Toronto due to not being vaccinated and not being allowed to enter Canada.

Sounds like bullpen is affected.   Lowrie was just signed to return to the A's in March.   Pinder, a Virginia Tech alum, is a jack of all trades who plays infield and outfield and has become a regular in their lineup which is depleted of its former stars with Olson and Chapman traded and Laureano still finishing his PED suspension.

Their lineup is pretty weak but they still have some pitching.   We will probably see under 30 runs in this 4 game series.

[Going Underground]

2 minutes ago, SteveA said:

A few of those guys (Puk I know for sure) were already on a reserve list because they didn't make the trip to Toronto due to not being vaccinated and not being allowed to enter Canada.

Sounds like bullpen is affected.   Lowrie was just signed to return to the A's in March.   Pinder, a Virginia Tech alum, is a jack of all trades who plays infield and outfield and has become a regular in their lineup which is depleted of its former stars with Olson and Chapman traded and Laureano still finishing his PED suspension.

Their lineup is pretty weak but they still have some pitching.   We will probably see under 30 runs in this 4 game series.

Lost their closer and one of their setup guys 

[Going Underground]

3 minutes ago, SteveA said:

A few of those guys (Puk I know for sure) were already on a reserve list because they didn't make the trip to Toronto due to not being vaccinated and not being allowed to enter Canada.

Sounds like bullpen is affected.   Lowrie was just signed to return to the A's in March.   Pinder, a Virginia Tech alum, is a jack of all trades who plays infield and outfield and has become a regular in their lineup which is depleted of its former stars with Olson and Chapman traded and Laureano still finishing his PED suspension.

Their lineup is pretty weak but they still have some pitching.   We will probably see under 30 runs in this 4 game series.

A's have scored the most runs in the majors somehow. 

[TommyPickles]

Playing a rebuilding A's club who just lost some players to the Covid list is probably the most favorable series matchup we're going to have in a while...

[bpilktree]

I guess all those guys caught it in Canada, even with there very strict regulations and not letting unvaccinated in.  It almost like these regulations don’t do much.  

[Can_of_corn]

3 minutes ago, TommyPickles said:

Playing a rebuilding A's club who just lost some players to the Covid list is probably the most favorable series matchup we're going to have in a while...

How did that work with the Marlins in 2020?

[TommyPickles]

10 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

How did that work with the Marlins in 2020?

You mean the playoff-bound 2020 Miami Marlins

[Can_of_corn]

Just now, TommyPickles said:

You mean the playoff-bound 2020 Miami Marlins

After they played the O's they were!

[SteveA]

42 minutes ago, bpilktree said:

I guess all those guys caught it in Canada, even with there very strict regulations and not letting unvaccinated in.  It almost like these regulations don’t do much.  

No, several of them were on the list before the Canada trip.

I think what happened is that there are still different rules for unvaccinated players and they have to go on the list if they are exposed to someone who has it, while vaccinated players don't.