The Red Sox announcedthat they’ve placed left-hander Brian Johnson on the 10-day disabled list due to a left shoulder impingement and selected the contract of right-hander Austin Maddox from Triple-A Pawtucket. Southpaw Roenis Elias has been shifted from the 10-day DL to the 60-day DL in order to clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Maddox.
[Related: Updated Boston Red Sox depth chart]
Johnson, 26, tossed a complete game shutout back on May 27 but has coughed up six runs over seven innings in his two starts since that time. Yesterday’s outing lasted just 2 2/3 innings before he was lifted from the game. He joins Steven Wright, Eduardo Rodriguez and Elias as rotation options for the Sox that are currently on the disabled list. With that quartet on the disabled list, the Sox have David Price, Chris Sale, Rick Porcello and Drew Pomeranz lined up in the rotation. Henry Owens and Kyle Kendrick are both on the 40-man roster in Triple-A and could step into the starting five next week, speculatively speaking.
Maddox, also 26, will make his MLB debut the first time he steps on the mound for Boston. The 2012 third-rounder has pitched to a pristine 1.33 ERA with 20 strikeouts against 11 walks through 27 innings between Double-A Portland and Triple-A Pawtucket this season. He won’t be an option to make a start for the Sox, as all but 13 of his 124 professional appearances have come in relief, and he’s made just two starts in the past four years.
is Doug Fister still out there? They need a warm body.
Signed with the Angels.
I think jake peavy and colby lewis are among the best FA left. Honestly, i think they should just try owens/velazquez/kendrick/elias one of them should be better than peavy or lewis
Elias is on the 60 day.
This isn’t that bad now that Price is back, even though he hasn’t been his old self he is still better than Kendrick. Having a rotation of Sale Porcello Price Pomerantz and Velasquez for the time being isn’t that bad especially if our bullpen can help the starters out
Price has had more velocity so far here early on than he did anytime last year, it seems to be his command from what I’ve seen and judging from what can gather from tv.. change hasn’t been all that consistent either, his cutter has been getting clobbered also.
Having no ST, or regular season in place of it hopefully is all that ales him for the moment.
Think Vazquez is best choice of the 3 available to replace Johnson, not that trust any of them and probably need Workman/Taylor on roster to work multiple innings to bail him out after 5 innings if he can get that far.
Brian Johnson to dl, Axl Rose has been called up….ha! yes folks thank you thank you…:p
How long would Peavy or Lewis take to get stretched out? Might be worth it just to stand pat for now, Boston has not played well this year consistently but they are two games out of first place
Fun fact these two were teammates in college at Florida and played on the same CWS team.