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Carlos Santana Injury: Indians Catcher Activated For Series Against Tigers

2012-06-05T20:27:09Z

The Cleveland Indians have activated catcher Carlos Santana for the team's Tuesday night game in Detroit against the Tigers. Santana was put on the seven-day concussion disabled list on May 26th, with the Indians promoting Triple-A catcher Luke Carlin to fill his spot. The slugging catcher resumed cardio activities last week, played in a rehab game on Monday at Lake County, and was expected to be activated sometime this week. With the Indians slumping and heading into another important division series in Detroit, word came down that Santana would return and also be in the lineup on Tuesday. The Indians optioned infielder Juan Diaz to make room, via Nick Camino of WTAM:

#Indians activate C Carlos Santana off 7-day DL. SS Juan Diaz optioned down.
— Nick Camino (@CaminoTribe) June 5, 2012

Camino also reports that Santana will DH and bat fourth in the lineup on Tuesday, as the Tribe decides to go with three catchers (Carlin, Santana, and Lou Marson) for now. Santana blasted a two-run homer in his one start with Lake County on Monday night.

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Carlos Santana Injury: Tribe Catcher Will Make Rehab Start At Lake County

2012-06-04T15:54:26Z

Cleveland Indians' catcher Carlos Santana continues to recover from a concussion he sustained over a week ago in a Friday night loss to the Chicago White Sox. Santana was put on the seven-day concussion disabled list following that game, and had resumed cardio activities this past week. On Monday, the Indians announced that Santana would see his first game action as a DH at single-A Lake County, via @TribeInsider:

Carlos Santana will DH tonight for the Lake County Captains in Eastlake vs Fort Wayne (7PM)
— Cleveland Indians(@tribeinsider) June 4, 2012

Manny Acta said on Friday that he expected the slugging catcher to return sometime this week. His backup, Lou Marson, just returned to the lineup this week after taking a pitch off the face in Chicago.

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Carlos Santana Injury: Indians Catcher Rehabbing, Expected Back In Lineup 'Next Week'

2012-06-01T22:17:47Z

Making progress after suffering a concussion last week, Cleveland Indians catcher Carlos Santana is already taking batting practice and is expected in the lineup next week by manager Manny Acta according to the Associated Press' Tom Withers:

#Indians manager Manny Acta said C Carlos Santana took batting practice and is making progress as he recovers from concussion.
— Tom Withers (@twithersAP) June 1, 2012

Santana will catch bullpen session on Saturday and expected back in lineup "next week." Santana is on MLB's new 7-day concussion list.
— Tom Withers (@twithersAP) June 1, 2012

The third-year catcher is hitting .245 with five home runs and 24 RBI over 43 games this year with the Indians, and remains one of of the sport's brightest young stars behind the plate. Aside from a noticeable dip in his slugging percentage (currently at .387 after posting a .457 last season), Santana continues to develop into the middle-of-the-order power threat that many thought he would become after entering league to heavy fanfare in 2010.

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Carlos Santana Injury: Indians Catcher Placed On 7-Day Concussion DL

2012-05-26T19:20:44Z

Cleveland Indians skipper Manny Acta said that removing Carlos Santana from Friday night's game with a neck/head injury was merely a precautionary move and that the Indians starting catcher could have stayed in the game if the outcome of the game wasn't all but decided.

News changed on Saturday, however, when Santana was not placed in the Indians' starting lineup. Not only was Santana not in the lineup, though, he wasn't even on the lineup card and catcher Luke Carlin was activated. Thus, speculation grew that Santana was on his way to the disabled list.

That is the case, according to Nick Camino:

Just got word #Indians C Carlos Santana has been placed on the new 7-day DL with concussion.
— Nick Camino (@CaminoTribe) May 26, 2012

Santana is tied for the lead on the Indians with 24 RBI and he has five home runs.

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Carlos Santana Injury: Indians Catcher Might Be Headed To DL

2012-05-26T17:41:09Z

Cleveland Indians starting catcher Carlos Santana was removed from Friday night's loss after a foul tip hit him in the mask. After the game, Tribe manager Manny Acta said that Santana could have continued to play if the game wasn't already out of hand and was replaced merely for precautionary reasons.

Santana's injury appears worse than initially believed, though, because he's not in the lineup on Saturday and catcher Luke Carlin has been activated.

Beat writer Jordan Bastian is assuming Santana is headed to the DL:

C Carlos Santana not on Indians lineup sheet. Could be 7-day concussion DL or 15-day DL. No official word yet from Indians.
— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) May 26, 2012

This is obviously not good news for the Indians, who are currently up on the White Sox 2.5 games in the Central. Santana is not hitting as well as he did in his first two seasons, but he has five homers and his 24 RBI is tops on the team.

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