2026 Injury Updates - Answering Your Questions When Possible (ARobsBrewCrew Thread)

[Dadbauer]

Per Curt Hogg on Bluesky: "A positive update on Luis Peña: He was cleared to resume baseball activities. He tentatively will be able to begin playing games in Arizona next week."

[Jim Goulart]

From Friday's Link Report:

"At this time, we don't know anything specific about Bryce Meccage's injury status. The 2024 2nd round pick out of a New Jersey high school had made his first four starts through April 24th and had been faring well enough, with progression to a five-inning, two-run outing with just two walks on that night. However, Meccage was not effective at all in a home start on April 30th, which was the last time we saw him on a mound - 1.1 IP, 3 H (1 HR), 7 R, 5 BB. He threw 52 pitches (only 23 strikes), and at the time, there was no reason to think his early exit was injury related. Here we are two weeks later with an IL stint."

ARob?

[ARobsBrewCrew]

2 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

From Friday's Link Report:

"At this time, we don't know anything specific about Bryce Meccage's injury status. The 2024 2nd round pick out of a New Jersey high school had made his first four starts through April 24th and had been faring well enough, with progression to a five-inning, two-run outing with just two walks on that night. However, Meccage was not effective at all in a home start on April 30th, which was the last time we saw him on a mound - 1.1 IP, 3 H (1 HR), 7 R, 5 BB. He threw 52 pitches (only 23 strikes), and at the time, there was no reason to think his early exit was injury related. Here we are two weeks later with an IL stint."

ARob?

Elbow inflammation for Meccage.  It seems as though he avoided anything too serious, but he’s looking at a return to the mound in a month or two.

[Jim Goulart]

As was mentioned a few posts back, are you able to update us on Luke Adams’ status? Thanks.

[ARobsBrewCrew]

6 hours ago, Jim Goulart said:

As was mentioned a few posts back, are you able to update us on Luke Adams’ status? Thanks.

Unfortunately, there’s still no timetable for Adams’ return.  The thought was that it would just be a couple of weeks, but it has not progressed as well as originally hoped.  He’s still in a wrist brace at this point.  
 

2025 17th round pick RHP Luke Roupe is nearing a return, however, and closing in on his pro debut as he threw live to hitters for the first time yesterday.  He should be ready to be activated in the next week or two for the ACL squad.