The Padres will be without one of their core players for the remainder of the regular season.
San Diego placed Xander Bogaerts on the 10-day injured list on Friday with a non-displaced left foot fracture, an injury that the shortstop likely suffered after fouling a ball off his foot during Wednesday’s loss to the Mariners.
With the injury typically requiring six to eight weeks of recovery time, the Padres believe that Bogaerts will have a chance to return for the postseason, per the San Diego Union-Tribune.
Infielder Mason McCoy was called up from Triple-A El Paso to fill Bogaerts’ roster spot, but it is likely that former Mets infielder Jose Iglesias will see more playing time at shortstop — with the 35-year-old batting seventh for Friday’s game against the Twins.
So far this season, Bogaerts, 32, has put up a slash line of .262/.330/.387 along with 29 doubles, 20 stolen bases and 10 home runs.
Since arriving in San Diego ahead of the 2023 season, Bogaerts has yet to replicate the success that he had in Boston, where he made four All-Star teams and won five Silver Sluggers during his 10-year tenure with the Red Sox.
Bogaerts, whose 2024 season got cut short with a shoulder fracture, nearly re-injured the same shoulder earlier this season after a headfirst slide into home during a game against the Nationals in June.
Following that injury scare, Bogaerts said that he planned to stop sliding into home headfirst.
“I’m feeling OK,” Bogaerts told reporters then. “I think on the stolen bases, it might be harder. That’s one that I don’t really do feet first. I feel if I go feet first, I might be out. The one at home, I think that’s actually pretty, pretty dumb for me to do [headfirst]. At home, it’s just your instincts.
“I’m trying to score. If I want to just run into an out, I just stand up and then let them touch me. And I’m just trying to score. I think at home, we won’t see that anymore.”
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
