Injury Report, August 11

15 ranked players had an injury reported in the last day.

Team medical staffs and beat reporters moved 15 ranked players in the last day. This is the ranked-only list, an injury to someone the board does not carry is not a fantasy decision, so those are left out, ordered by the value actually at risk rather than by when it was reported.

Who moved

_Showing the 14 most valuable of 15._

What the reports say

Geraldo Perdomo: Perdomo left Monday's game against Colorado due to left knee soreness.

Byron Buxton: Buxton (hip) went through a full workout at Target Field on Monday, Jack Azoulay-Haron of ElEmergente.com reports.

Vinnie Pasquantino: Pasquantino (wrist) will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Omaha on Tuesday.

Shane McClanahan: McClanahan (back) threw two innings in a simulated game Thursday, per MLB.com.

Carlos Rodón: Yankees manager Aaron Boone said Tuesday on the "Talkin' Yanks" podcast by Jomboy Media that Rodon (elbow) will make another rehab start Thursday or Friday.

Gavin Lux: Lux (shoulder) is unlikely to return this season, per MLB.com.

Jameson Taillon: Taillon left Monday's start against Boston with right forearm discomfort, Hazel Mae of Sportsnet reports.

Carlos Correa: Correa (ankle) has been cleared to hit off a tee, Matt Kawahara of the Houston Chronicle reports.

Daniel Susac: Susac (knee) was placed on the 10-day injured list Monday.

Mike Burrows: Burrows (elbow) will make a rehab start for Triple-A Sugar Land on Friday, Brian McTaggart of MLB.com reports.

JoJo Romero: Romero (abdomen) is expected to be activated from the 15-day injured list before the end of August, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports.

Sam Bachman: Bachman (forearm) played catch out to 60 feet Monday, Rhett Bollinger of MLB.com reports.

Matt Gage: Gage (elbow) threw a bullpen session Monday, Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

Justin Martinez: Martinez (elbow) is expected to make up to two more rehab appearances before being reinstated from the 60-day injured list, John Gambadoro of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM reports.

The calls

Hold, day-to-day, not an IL move: Geraldo Perdomo, Byron Buxton

Bench, day-to-day and replaceable: Jameson Taillon

Droppable, below the ~300th-ranked player, i.e. a free agent in most leagues: Vinnie Pasquantino, Shane McClanahan, Carlos Rodón, Gavin Lux, Carlos Correa, Daniel Susac, Mike Burrows, JoJo Romero

What this means

Perdomo is the only name here that a contender cannot replace, and he is also the only one carrying a day-to-day tag. Value of 347 puts him inside the top five percent of ranked players, which is a long way clear of the 134 line where the last rostered bat in a twelve-team league lives. Nothing about a DTD designation touches that. You hold, you eat the zero if he sits two or three games, and you do not spend a waiver claim insuring a shortstop whose replacement will cost you roughly two thirds of his production. The only version of this that goes wrong is a DTD that quietly becomes a ten-day stay, and the observable is simple: if he is out of the lineup for a third straight game with no update, treat him as shelved and cover the position rather than starting a hole at short.

Buxton at 174 is the real hold, because 174 with an IL10 attached is doing something unusual. That number is above the last-man-rostered line even after the injury is priced in, which means the projection is not treating the absence as a write-off; it is treating him as a player good enough that the games he does return for outweigh the ones he misses. Roster him through it. The case against is the one every Buxton owner already knows by heart, and it is a good case: the pattern of short absences turning into long ones is what suppresses his value in the first place, and an IL10 that becomes an IL60 leaves you holding a bench spot for a month in the middle of a category race. What settles it is whether the ten days actually expire on schedule. If the stint gets extended once, he is not a 174 player anymore and the hold argument dies with the extension.

Pasquantino is where I expect an argument. Value 89 with a droppable verdict reads harsh for a starting first baseman, and 89 is not a trivial number: it is a real bat, roughly two thirds of the way to the roster line. But the verdict is not a judgment on the hitter, it is arithmetic about the roster spot. He is 45 points of value below the cutoff for a player you must keep, and an IL10 first baseman gives you nothing in any category for the duration while a healthy corner bat sitting on waivers gives you counting stats immediately. In deep leagues with IL slots the calculus flips completely and you stash him without thinking. In a shallow twelve-teamer with no IL relief, dropping him is correct and the cost of being wrong is that you pay a small FAB bid to get him back, which is a cheaper mistake than a dead spot for two weeks.

The starters below him are the same story with less to discuss. McClanahan at 85 and Rodón at 78 are both IL15, both labeled droppable, and the shape of that is the length of the stint rather than the quality of the arm. Fifteen days is two full scoring weeks of no starts. Taillon is the one exception in the group: 70 with a DTD tag and a bench verdict, which is the engine saying he will pitch again soon enough that you should simply not start him and wait.

Everything from Susac down is noise. Nine names, none above 42, most of them relievers on long-term stints, and the whole block is a list of players a competitive roster should not have owned this morning. That is the shape of today's list: one genuine hold, one interesting hold, one argument about a first baseman, and a long tail of players whose injuries do not change a thing.

How to read this

The verdicts are the engine's, not a hot take, and the cutoffs come from the board rather than from taste: value 295 is the top 5% of ranked players, and value 134 is roughly the 300th-ranked player, the last man rostered in a 12-team league. Above 295 nobody drops anyone; below 134 the player is a free agent in most formats whether he is hurt or not.

Status is the IL designation itself, which is the only honest signal of length available: the feed carries no return dates and no estimated timelines at all, both fields are empty on every record, so anyone quoting a return date is guessing. A 60-day placement is the club saying months; a 10-day is a fortnight.

Value is the replacement-adjusted number the boards sort on, so it answers the only question that matters here: how much is actually at stake. A high-value name on a short absence is usually a hold; a mid-value name on a long one is where roster spots get decided.

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