Nathan Eovaldi’s season is over

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The Texas Rangers are currently fighting for survival, four and a half games out of the final playoff spot held by the Seattle Mariners.

And they’ll have to do so without one of their top guns.

Rangers President of Baseball Operations Chris Young said yesterday (Tuesday) that starting pitcher Nathan Eovaldi has a strained rotator cuff and will likely miss the rest of the season.

Eovaldi, in his third season with the Rangers, posted a record of eleven wins against three losses with a 1.73 earned-run average and 129 strikeouts in 22 starts this season.

The 35-year-old has been invaluable since arriving in Texas, boasting the best earned-run average among Rangers starters this season, and by far the best earned-run average of his long career, which includes stints with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Miami Marlins, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Boston Red Sox.

The right-hander also helped the Rangers win the World Series in 2023 and participated in the MLB All-Star Game for the second time in his career that year.

The Texans will miss him enormously, as they will be without the services of an American League Cy Young Trophy contender.

Worst of all for the Rangers, he was scheduled to start today’s (Wednesday) game against the Los Angeles Angels. Now they have to find a replacement.

Potential options include Kumar Rocker, Jacob Latz and Michael Plassmeyer, all of whom could be used by the end of this campaign.

Far from ideal.

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