Angels Injury News: Gio Urshela Shares Positive Update in Recovery

Some GREAT news for his baseball future!

After a year littered with injuries across the roster, the Halos received some positive progress on the road back from one player's setback. 

Infielder Gio Urshela was reported to have made a huge step on his way back to the field for game action earlier this week. 

Gio Urshela was in the #Angels clubhouse today said he’s been able to walk without crutches for five days after fracturing his left pelvis in mid-June. Said he expects to have a normal offseason. He’s a free agent after the season.

— Rhett Bollinger (@RhettBollinger) August 6, 2023

Urshela has been out of the Angel lineup since earlier in the summer with a pelvis injury he suffered in a series against the Rangers after an awkward fall running out a grounder. 

Signing a one-year deal with Anaheim in the offseason, Urshela was providing some good production with the bat, hitting close to .300 in his first two months with the Halos. 

The injury to the man who filled in at both first and third base likely contributed to the Angels picking up positional help from both positions from Colorado later in the season. 

CJ Cron and Mike Moustakas were traded from the Rockies to the Big A to fill in both of the voids that Urshela left behind with his ailment. 

Anthony Rendon's absence from third also likely contributed to this move for the front office as the pricey acquisition from the 2019 offseason has not panned out at all for Anaheim in health, professionalism nor production on the field. 

Urshela's update is a rare positive for a team that's been floundering after deciding to go all in on a postseason push at the deadline. 

Pitching acquisitions in Lucas Giolito and Reynaldo Lopez from the White Sox have equally not gone to plan for the Halos since coming over to California. 

On and off the field the Angels have struggled to have any consistency or stability from their roster with injured lists piling up alongside the losses in the second half. 

Though Urshela's on the up and up, the Halos seemingly have further to fall than ever before.