MLB Player News

Diaz is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Rangers.

Diaz will get a chance to catch his breath after starting the last three games behind the dish. Christian Vazquez will handle catching duties for Houston in the series finale.

Davis is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Reds.

Davis had started the previous two games, but his playing time is set to take a hit after Endy Rodriguez and Spencer Horwitz came off the injured list. Horwitz should settle back in as the Pirates' everyday first baseman, which will require Rodriguez to get the bulk of his starts behind the plate.

Goodman is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Royals.

The Rockies will go with Brett Sullivan behind the plate and Jake McCarthy at designated hitter while Goodman gets a rest, and the trade deadline looms. Goodman had started all but one of the first 13 games coming out of the All-Star break, slashing .289/.360/.711 with six home runs, 14 RBI and seven runs over that stretch.

Susac went 2-for-4 with a double in Saturday's 6-5 loss to the Padres.

Susac lined a leadoff double to center field in the sixth inning and singled in the eighth. He's recorded at least one hit in each of his last three games and is batting .280 with eight RBI, five runs scored, three home runs and a stolen base in 29 plate appearances since returning from the injured list after the All-Star break. On the year, he's slashing .266/.310/.406 with 22 RBI, 10 runs scored, three long balls and two stolen bases across 144 plate appearances.

Feduccia is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the White Sox, Marc Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times reports.

The left-handed hitter will be on the bench for a second straight day, as White Sox southpaw Anthony Kay takes the mound after lefty Noah Schultz worked in bulk relief Saturday. Nick Fortes will get another turn behind the dish over Feduccia on Sunday.

Crooks is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Blue Jays.

Crooks will get a break after he went 1-for-6 with four strikeouts while starting behind the dish in the first two games of the series. Ivan Herrera will receive the start at catcher in Sunday's finale.

Diaz went 1-for-3 with a home run and two RBI in Saturday's 5-4 loss to the Astros.

Diaz drove in a game-tying run in the fourth inning on a sacrifice bunt and then homered in the sixth to bring Texas within one run. The RBI were his first in 18 contests. He's getting most of the starts at catcher with Kyle Higashioka (forearm) on the injured list.

Fermin went 2-for-3 with a two-run home run and an additional RBI in a 6-5 win against the Giants on Saturday.

Fermin turned a one-run deficit into a one-run lead with a two-run blast in the fourth inning. He added another RBI with a single in the sixth. The backstop homered in three straight games in early June, but since then he had gone 20 straight contests without a long ball before Saturday, batting a meager .191 with zero RBI during that span. Fermin has been splitting time with Luis Campusano behind the plate -- each player has started four of San Diego's past eight games.

Goodman went 4-for-5 with two home runs and five total RBI in a 12-6 win over the Royals on Saturday.

Goodman continued his jaw-dropping campaign, launching a three-run homer in the third inning and a solo shot in the seventh before adding an RBI single in the eighth. The All-Star catcher had gone seven games without a home run coming into Saturday -- a relatively long stretch for him -- but is now up to 33 long balls on the season. That's tied for second most in the majors at any position, and Goodman has a legitimate shot at breaking the NL record for homers by a catcher in a campaign, which was set by Johnny Bench with 45 long balls in 1970.

The Giants placed Rodriguez on the 10-day injured list Saturday due to right elbow neuritis, John Shea of the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The injury may have cropped up during Friday's game against the Padres, when he entered the game in the ninth inning as a pinch hitter for Bryce Eldridge. Rodriguez will be sidelined until at least mid-August, and in a corresponding move, the Giants recalled Nate Furman from Triple-A Sacramento.