Angels' Jake Gatewood: Activated from minor-league IL
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Gatewood (unspecified) was activated from Triple-A Salt Lake's 7-day injured list Tuesday.
Gatewood was placed on the IL in early April due to an unspecified injury, and he missed over a month before his activation Tuesday. The first baseman displayed good power at Triple-A in 2021 with 28 homers and 84 RBI, but he batted only .227 and registered a troubling 34.9 percent strikeout rate. He has yet to get into a game this season.
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Angels' Jake Gatewood: Goes on Triple-A IL
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Gatewood will open the season on the 7-day injured list at Triple-A Salt Lake due to an unspecified injury.
Gatewood joined the Angels organization in November on a minor-league deal, after he elected free agency last winter following eight seasons in the Brewers organization. He's coming off a 2021 campaign in which he hit .227 with 28 home runs across 487 plate appearances at Triple-A Nashville.
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Angels' Jake Gatewood: Back with Halos
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Gatewood signed a minor-league deal with the Angels on Tuesday.
Gatewood spent 2021 in the Angels organization at Triple-A Salt Lake, and he hit .227/.281/.471 with 28 homers, 22 doubles, 84 RBI and 60 runs in 116 games. The 26-year-old has yet to make his MLB debut and figures to open 2022 at Triple-A again.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Cleared for game action
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Gatewood (knee) announced Tuesday through his personal Twitter account that he has been fully cleared for game action.
Gatewood has spent the past eight months rehabbing a torn ACL but finally appears to have neared the finish line in his recovery. Due to his lengthy layoff, the Brewers are likely to ease Gatewood back into action in simulated games at extended spring training in Arizona before advancing him to minor-league rehab games at a lower-level affiliate. Once the Brewers are fully comfortable with Gatewood's health, he'll likely settle into an everyday role at Double-A Biloxi.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Resumes tee work
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Gatewood (knee) hit off a tee Thursday, according to his personal Twitter account.
Thursday's session marked the first time Gatewood was able take swings since undergoing season-ending surgery to repair his torn left ACL in July of 2018. The 23-year-old is still a ways away from returning, though he's trending in the right direction.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Tears ACL, done for season
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Gatewood will require surgery after suffering a torn ACL in his left knee, Adam McCalvy of MLB.com reports.
Gatewood was hitting .244/.302/.466 with 19 homers and 59 RBI through 94 games at Double-A Biloxi prior to the injury. He'll miss the remainder of the 2018 campaign and potentially part of the 2019 season while rehabbing after surgery.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Slugs 19th homer
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Gatewood went 1-for-4 with a two-run homer for Double-A Biloxi in its 7-5 win over Tennessee on Sunday.
Gatewood and teammate Corey Ray both went deep to remain tied atop the Southern League leaderboard with 19 home runs on the campaign. Though Gatewood has displayed impressive power production at each stop on the minor-league ladder, the lack of improvement he has shown with his strikeout rate puts a damper on his long-term outlook. The 22-year-old has struck out in 29.7 percent of his plate appearances this season and could become even more exposed when he contends with more advanced pitching at the Triple-A or major-league level.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Overcoming slow start
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Gatewood hit .270/.322/.505 with 10 home runs, 36 RBI, and a 14:55 BB:K over his last 51 games with Double-A Biloxi.
Gatewood's overall ratios (.239/.298/.452) in 2018 are still taking a hit from the 2-for-34 skid he opened the season on, but his numbers from April 17 onward -- as noted in the opener -- are plenty passable. Gatewood is playing first base regularly for Biloxi and will continue to do so.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Moves up to Double-A
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Gatewood was promoted to Double-A Biloxi on Monday.
Gatewood demonstrated significant contact issues (28.1 percent strikeout rate) at High-A Carolina, but he hit for enough power (47 extra-base hits in 470 plate appearances) to offset those concerns. The holes in the 21-year-old's swing could be exploited more by advanced pitchers in the upper minors, but the Brewers aren't in any rush to push the first baseman through their system. If Gatewood can gradually improve his contact rate over his next two seasons in the minors without sacrificing any power, he could make a compelling case for an everyday role in the big leagues.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: Displaying new approach this season
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Gatewood is 13-for-36 (.361) with a home run, four doubles, five RBI, and 8:12 BB:K through 10 games with High-A Carolina.
Gatewood owns just a. 285 OBP in his minor-league career, but he's showing some major improvement in that area early this season, walking eight times in 10 games after reaching via the base on balls just 18 times in 126 games a year ago. Gatewood is also displaying the power that made him a first-round pick in 2014, so it appears things may finally be starting to come together for him at the plate.
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Brewers' Jake Gatewood: To move off third base
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With the promotion of Lucas Erceg to Low-A Wisconsin, Gatewood will start getting starts at first base and in the outfield, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Todd Rosiak reports.
Gatewood has 23 errors in 91 games this season at the hot corner, and at this point Erceg is the better prospect, so Gatewood will be the one to move down the defensive spectrum. He has 10 homers, but is getting on base at just a .264 clip this season, and is fourth in the Midwest League with 102 strikeouts.
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Brewers prospect Jake Gatewood injures right knee
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Brewers assistant general manager Gord Ash said shortstop prospect Jake Gatewood suffered a right knee contusion and will miss several weeks, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Gatewood, however, did not sustain any ligament damage so he will be able to return this season.
Gatewood was Milwaukee's first-round pick in the 2014 amateur draft.
