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  • LAA 2nd Baseman
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    Freddy Sandoval will be sidelined 6-8 weeks with a pulled muscle in his side.
    He hurt himself recently during fielding drills. Sandoval has kind of fallen off the map since a big year at Triple-A in 2008 and was limited to just 22 games at Triple-A last season due to a strained elbow. His outside shot of making the team just went by the wayside.
  • BAL Relief Pitcher #60
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    Orioles recalled RHP Colin Selby from Triple-A Norfolk.
    The 27-year-old right-hander will take the bullpen spot that was vacated by Bryan Baker after he was dealt to the Rays on Thursday. Selby has made four appearances with the O’s already this season, compiling a 3.18 ERA, 1.06 WHIP and a 10/1 K/BB ratio over 5 2/3 innings. He’ll give manager Tony Mansolino another weapon to deploy in the middle innings.
    Kim should settle in as Rays starting shortstop
    Ha-Seong Kim returned to the Tampa Bay Rays this week after missing the first half of the season with a shoulder injury, and Eric Samulski examines Kim's fantasy value down the stretch.
  • BAL Catcher #91
    Orioles optioned C David Bañuelos to Triple-A Norfolk.
    The 28-year-old backstop had been on the team’s taxi squad, so he jumped to the active roster for the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader after Bryan Baker was traded to the Rays. That’s all the time it took them to get Colin Selby up from Triple-A though, so Bañuelos will head back without having appeared in that one ballgame. He’ll continue to function as extra catching depth for the O’s.
  • STL Starting Pitcher #12
    Cardinals’ manager Oli Marmol told reporters on Thursday that Erick Fedde will make another start on Saturday against the Braves.
    Fedde has been hit extremely hard in each of his last two starts, but he’ll be given at least one more shot in the rotation to see if he can get back on track. Marmol admitted that there could be other reasons for the team wanting to keep him in the rotation, as Fedde was supposed to be a trade chip before the deadline prior to his recent struggles.
  • CHC Center Fielder #4
    Pete Crow-Armstrong had two homers, a double and a walk Thursday as the Cubs trounced the Twins 8-1.
    Crow-Armstrong, who went 0-for-8 in the first two games of the series, had a 414-foot homer off Chris Paddack in the third and a 425-foot homer of Anthony Misiewicz in the seventh. It’s his sixth two-homer game, five of which have come this year. He’s up to 25 homers overall, which is tied with teammate Seiya Suzuki for sixth in the majors, and he’s the only player in the league with 20 homers and 20 steals (27, in his case).
  • CHC Starting Pitcher #53
    Colin Rea limited the Twins to one run and three hits in seven innings for his seventh win Thursday.
    Any team could have had Rea at a reasonable $5.5 million when he was on waivers in November, but no one jumped, and the Cubs eventually signed him for $5 million. He’s since put together a nice first half at 7-3 with a 3.91 ERA. His peripherals have never been great, but he’s allowed two runs or fewer in 10 of his 15 starts.
  • MIN Starting Pitcher #20
    Chris Paddack was tagged for six runs and 11 hits in five innings by the Cubs on Thursday.
    Paddack wasn’t hit particularly hard, but he was still overwhelmed by all of the contact in a start in which he finished with just two strikeouts. He has an 8.47 ERA in his last six starts, taking his season mark from 3.53 to 4.95. He’ll probably stay in the rotation to begin the second half, but the ice has to be pretty thin at this point.
  • CHC Left Fielder #8
    Even as his teammates were combining for 14 hits, the struggling Ian Happ went 0-for-5 against the Twins on Thursday.
    Happ is 3-for-47 in his last 12 games, dropping his OPS from .762 to .696. He’s still taking his walks and he surely will break out of the slump, but at this point, it’s getting hard to argue for keeping him in the leadoff spot, which is where he has hit all year.
  • MIN Right Fielder #9
    Trevor Larnach finished 0-for-4 with two strikeouts against the Cubs on Thursday.
    Larnach is 7-for-38 with no RBI and a 12/1 K/BB in his last 11 games. It’s not going to get him pulled from the lineup, but maybe he’ll be dropped for a bit. The problem for the Twins is that their lineup is really just Byron Buxton and a whole bunch of guys who should be batting sixth, and they didn’t even have Buxton today.
  • CLE 1st Baseman #43
    Guardians optioned 1B/DH Jhonkensy Noel to Triple-A Columbus.
    The 23-year-old slugger was up with the big league club for a couple of days while Kyle Manzardo was on the family medical emergency list, though he went hitless in four at-bats in his limited action. Noel will return to an everyday role at Triple-A Columbus where he’ll continue to refine his craft.
  • CLE 1st Baseman #9
    Guardians activated 1B/DH Kyle Manzardo from the family medical emergency list.
    The 24-year-old slugger had been away from the team since Monday. He returns to a .217/.289/.429 with 13 homers and 33 RBI through his first 284 plate appearances on the season. Jhonkensy Noel was optioned back to Triple-A Columbus in a corresponding move on Thursday.