Brett Lawrie was hit by a fastball on his left wrist and it is bruised but there is no fractures detected in the x-ray he has had done and DL placement is retroactive to Wednesday when the incident happened so it looks like if everything goes right he may join the Jays in Kansas City on Thursday but more likely for Friday against the Red Soxs at the Rogers Centre. He has been very strong with his bat in Las Vegas in 52 games with the 51s as he been hitting .354 (79 for 223) with 15 homers, 19 doubles, and 4 triples along with 49 RBIs with 18 walks and 40 Ks and 11 for 12 stealing bases this season. I know that the strikeouts are high but in the last 10 games he has a .5 strikeout per game ratio and 4 walks which means he is walking almost as much as he is striking out and had not struck out in his last 6 games with the 51s which is a good sign and it looks like he is getting more patience at the plate since Eric Thames was called up first because he was more patience than Lawrie was at the time. Also in the last 10 games before getting hurt he was hitting .410 (16 for 39) with 6 homers, 4 doubles, and a triple and does have 12 errors in Las Vegas but 6 of those errors were in the first couple of weeks of the season so he is getting more comfortable at third.
The reason that Brett Lawrie will be coming up because as Jayson Nix and Johnny Mac are batting a combined 36 for 196 which is almost a .180 batting average with 5 homers and 22 RBIs this season which is a struggle to say the least and even though they are better fielders the Jays are looking at Lawrie and hoping that he can hit closer to .300 than Nix/Mac are hitting to .200.
So lets see what kind of learning curve the 21-year-old will face when he arrives in the Big Smoke
Tom Mehegan
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