OAKLAND — Jacob Wilson’s immediate playing future with the Oakland Athletics is in limbo.
“We’re still waiting,” said A’s manager Mark Kotsay. “We’ve got an MRI set up for tomorrow. He’s unavailable today, but we want to get the read on the MRI most likely before we make a decision on a roster move. He came in sore today. We don’t want to rush the decision, but we’ll probably make a decision at some point tomorrow.”
Wilson, the A’s No. 1 prospect according to MLB Pipeline, started at shortstop on Friday night and recorded his first major league hit. He then scored on Laurence Butler’s triple but started to limp noticeably when rounding third base and heading for home.
The A’s have described Wilson’s injury as a left hamstring strain. The MRI will reveal the extent of the strain, and the A’s are not delaying the MRI to wait for Wilson’s swelling to subside.
“The swelling’s going to be there because it is a strain,” Kotsay said. “It’s not a cramp, so we’ll just wait for the film and see what it says.”
Oakland outfielder Brent Rooker noted that while the Athletics are disappointed about Wilson’s injury — and hopeful for a quick recovery — Friday’s game still served as a good opportunity for the rookie to get his feet wet at the big-league level.
“It’s a tough situation,” Rooker said. “Obviously, we were excited to get him here. Heard all the good things about him. We were looking forward to seeing what he can do and having him help us win games, and he showed he could do that in the first few innings. Then just a little bit of tough luck there on his part.”
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Rooker encountered a similar situation shortly after he debuted with the Twins in 2020, fracturing his arm in his seventh career game.
“Not the same situation at all, but I dealt with something similar,” Rooker said. “I got called up in ’20, and then I broke my arm and missed the rest of that season. So there’s some similarities there for sure.
“But he’s going to get healthy, he’s going to get back. I talked to him yesterday after he came out and I said, ‘Look, you got all the firsts out of the way. You got the first start, you got the first hit. All that’s done now. So whenever you’re healthy, you just come back and get to play, you don’t have to worry about that stuff.’ So we’re excited to have him back, whenever that is.”
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