Danny Espinosa will see minors before returning
Nationals second baseman Danny Espinosa will see a specialist in Baltimore for his fractured right wrist after being placed on the disabled list Tuesday. According to MLB.com, surgery is not an option for either his wrist or his torn left rotator cuff, and he will just rest while on the disabled list.
The team will also likely send him to the minors once he's healthy to fix his swingt. Espinosa is batting .158 with three home runs.
"We finally put Danny on the disabled list to clean up all the wrist questions that we had, and for him to rehab and then go down to the minor leagues, with a healthy wrist, go down there and work on the mental side of hitting," general manager Mike Rizzo told MLB.com. "[We want to] see if we can get him back here because he's a guy that we need -- that's going to be a guy that we're going to count on some time this year. So we want to get him right."
The team called up top prospect Anthony Rendon to replace Espinosa on the active roster.
