The Texas Rangers benched Josh Jung to Triple-A and invited back Jake Hamburger from injury.
ARLINGTON, Texas– The Texas Rangers sent out battling 3rd baseman Josh Jung to Triple-A Round Rock on Wednesday and triggered initial baseman Jake Hamburger from the 10-day damaged listing.
Jung was striking.237 with 8 homers in 35 RBIs in 75 video games this period, yet struck just.164 (19 of 116) over his previous 30 video games because Might 26. An All-Star starter as a novice in 2023, Jung really did not begin Tuesday evening, a day after he went 0 for 5 for the 4th time because June 16. He has actually set out 36 times (29.5%) in his last 122 plate looks.
Texas made the relocations prior to its collection ending versus Baltimore.
” I assume it’s reasonable to state he’s been undergoing some battles right here,” supervisor Bruce Bochy stated. “The most effective point today for Josh and this club is to allow him obtain some at-bats with Round Rock, obtain his video game back, his self-confidence back. We require him.”
Burger returned after missing out on 10 video games with a left oblique stress.
Jung was enacted by followers as an All-Star starter for the American Organization in 2023, and weeks after playing in the All-Star Video game damaged his left thumb on a fielding dip into Miami. He went back to strike.308 (20 for 65) with 3 homers in the playoffs as the Rangers won their only Globe Collection title that period.
The 27-year-old Jung missed out on 9 video games previously this year due to neck convulsions. He was restricted to 46 video games in 2014 after his ideal wrist was fractured after obtaining struck by a pitch.
The Rangers made the very same step with Hamburger in very early Might, when he was striking.190 with a team-high 32 strikeouts in 100 at-bats in his initial 30 video games. He struck.391 with 2 crowning achievement in 6 ready Round Rock.
Once he went back to the majors, the 29-year-old Hamburger struck.243 with 7 homers and 17 RBIs in 35 video games prior to harming the oblique June 20 versus Baltimore.
” I understand the sort of gamer he is and understand what sort of gamer he wishes to get on an everyday basis,” Hamburger stated of Jung. “For me, you have actually reached take it with a favorable perspective and with any luck remain down there, obtain your head right and return up due to the fact that this ballclub requires him.”
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