Though the Red Sox have hammered out extensions with free-agents-to-be Chris Sale and Xander Bogaerts in recent weeks, president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski strongly suggested that the team won’t be negotiating any additional deals, Jason Mastrodonato of the Boston Herald reports. The team has no ongoing discussions, per Dombrowski, who added that he is “pretty certain” there will not be another extension brokered this season. The Sox initially placed an Opening Day deadline on wrapping up negotiations, though the Bogaerts deal was announced a few days into the season. As Dombrowski explains, talks with Bogaerts were advanced enough that the team was confident they wouldn’t linger into the season.
A bit more from the division…
- The Yankees will recall infielder Thairo Estrada to replace Troy Tulowitzki on the active roster tomorrow, MLB.com’s Mark Feinsand reports (via Twitter). That all but confirms that Tulowitzki, who strained his left calf muscle in today’s game, will land on the 10-day injured list (as skipper Aaron Boone had already said was likely). Estrada, 23. missed much of the 2018 season after being shot in the hip during a robbery attempt in his native Venezuela prior to the season. The promising young infielder thankfully survived without serious damage and even returned to the field for 18 late-season games and another 19 games in the Arizona Fall League. Ranked as the team’s No. 19 prospect on MLB.com, Estrada hit .301/.353/.392 at the Double-A level in his last full season in 2017.
- The ankle injury suffered by Yandy Diaz in Tuesday’s game doesn’t appear to be serious, and the Rays are confident he’ll be able to return to the lineup Friday, writes Juan Toribio of MLB.com. Diaz could have been available off the bench but didn’t appear in today’s game against the Rockies. The 27-year-old is off to a fast start with his new organization, having slashed .333/.440/.619 with a homer and three doubles through his first 25 plate appearances after being acquired from the Indians organization in the Jake Bauers/Edwin Encarnacion three-team swap this offseason.
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Gee, who would have thought that
Redsox nation n me are beginning to panic. When you got pitching no hitting, and when hitting no pitching. I really think Sale will be changing his pitching style, n I think he will. He pitched great last night, as is Nate tonight.
Yup. No hitting, no pitching..
Speak for yourself. Much/many of the true RSN fans aren’t worried at all yet.
1) There was one bad trip through the rotation, after a very late season, and, an even slower ramp up than last year.
2) the team is playing 10pm start times. Even last year the Sox stunk at 10pm start time games, or don’t you remember last spring’s last night west coast tour when the doom-and-gloom bandwagon fans and detractors pointed to the poor showing as proof the 17-2 start was an anomaly and the team “wasn’t that good”
3) even impartial news outlets have admitted this 11 game in 11 days road streak, independent of those start times, is the most strenuous that ANY team will be facing ALL SEASON.
Red Sox are gonna be fine
I really think MLB hierarchy socked it to the Redsox this yr to start off. I bet Joe Torre picked that scedual……j/k. But really was an fair trip to west coast, so long, but maybe they’ll be through with the west coast after this trip.
Also the Sox – and this is their own fault – basically gave the rotation spring training off and severely limited their IP. This hurt them in that none have seemed very ready to go. It did help in that none got injured.
Couple this lack of preparedness with the fact that the two teams they have played are the two teams that started the season a week earlier than everyone else and therefore got ready to go faster.
Bad schedule helped by questionable preparing tactics that might work out in the long run…
If you panic after 6 games played you are not a baseball fan but a bandwagon fan. Red Sox in the past has played on the west coast early because of weather not a conspiracy. A’s are not a weak last place team they are one of the playoff contenders this year.
I’d rather have the Sox play like crap now instead of late September early October!
Absolutely Peter. I would rather win the last game versus the first. Championships are not won or lost in April
Like the 11-1 Mets of last year, right?
I think there’s no need to panic I mean look at the Astros, Yankees, braves, cubs, all teams off to a pretty bad first week, let these teams get in their grove
Pasha… go cheer for another team if your panicking. It’s way too early in the season for that noise. Yes swihart is raking Betts and Benny will for sure get it going soon. Our roster is too deep and talent not to turn around this rough start.
Yeah you guys are doomed. Probably the worst team in baseball tbh
They need Pedro to give a pitching clinic to the Redsox, stop giving them to rival teams……..grins.
The starters need to work on “Pitching” and not just “Throwing as hard as you can”. Pedro figured out the whole velocity down, now I have to pitch thing later after he left Boston. That may be what they are doing with Sale…. Having him working on “pitching” with less velocity so it saves his arm for later in the year.
that cash is some genius investing millions this off season in depth and not in talent.
BTW what happened to the Yankee BP? I know the Yankee homer dependent offensive culture cash has fostered has faltered but the pen should still be able to outlast the AAAA O’s and Tigers right? there is still a lot of games to be played but being 2-4 still reeks
Why are you talkin trash? Red Sawx are about to be 1-6
Me and my big mouth.. RedSox were down 3-0. Lol Enjoy being 2-5, instead of 1-6, reigning champs.
Reigning champs says it all. After winning it all Cora essentially took spring training off this year so they’ll hit a stride in a few weeks. Good news is that they are killing an 11 game west coast trip while they finish training.
What trash just fact. I don’t care about the Red Sox just want a World Series for the yanks that seem elusive with every cashman mistake
Cashman is not good he gets the FA cuz it’s the Evil Empire drawing them to the lime like of the city.
Thanks…good call on that one hopefully you aren’t making any money bets cause you’d be broke and unable to come and post on here.
Yankees have to score to win.
Is tulowitzki polish for fragile?
It must be Italian.
Yea plenty of Italian names end in “itzki”…..
Dug with a Xmas story reference. You didn’t get it.
I knew someone would get it. It’s a major award.
Bought my sister a replica leg lamp for her birthday a couple of years ago. I tried sending her the major award telegram but western union sends them out as USPS first class letters now. She got it 3 days after the leg lamp was delivered.
And one more thing, Mookie if he keeps going like he is he better sign an extension instead of screaming he wants FA, n get left at the gate. If he doesn’t wanna stay in Boston they should trade him during a down yr. We might already be looking at a downer.
I bet you can find a 7 game stretch last year where Mookie had similar stats, it just wasnt week 1. The team will befine, Mookie will be fine. Unless we are 20 games below .500 by trade deadline you dont trade him. If he walkshe walks but we have 2 years left that heshould lead us to the playoffs, then hopefully more.
Ok I’m better now that they scored, still a little panicked that’s all.
You might wanna get some meds to calm your panick. I’d hate to watch a game with you. Do you have to cover your eyes in the playoffs . Let alone when Kimbrel came in they likely took you to emerg with a heart attack!
Stupid Tribe, trading Yandy.
Why are so many fans so in love with Yandy? He is 27 years old, no power, and not good at any position defensively. I would rather have Jake Bauers. He is 23, plays defense, plays outfield which we need, and has more potential than Yandy. He is a former top 100 prospect. Let’s give him more than 5 games to see what he has.
Disagree completely, Firstly Bauers was” redundant” with all our LH OF players and prospects ( much more in minors- B Lowe is 5th OF option) Mainly though Bauers cound”t hit an inside slider and the whole league knew it! He batted 170 after ALB last year. Diaz seems to be a minimum 280 hitter (with power) and plays excellent 1b (3b) againsts LH pitchers. I like Diaz and I was disapointed we didn’t acquire Cruz. Spend money going forward please!
I like this team…sure, some more spending would improve things, but no need. LIneup is stacked, minors are stacked, pitching is strong (especially when Honeywell is ready). Go Rays.
Diaz has power? He has 2 home runs total in in his career in 286 at bats. He also does not play good defense. Yes, he hits the ball hard mostly on the ground. Yes, he will hit 280 of singles and doubles with limited power. He is also 27 years old. He is what he is.
Diaz averaged 8 hrs in his 4 minor league and Cuba baseball years with 250 Abs or less. He’s bulked up some 30Lbs since then. He reminds me of a line dirve hitting Jose Bautista. Look up Jose HR totals before his first 5 year in MLB baseball. This Yandy looks like a late bloomer as well.. Defense excellent at 3b and 1st so far! Wish Bauers well, but we have LH hitting outfield comming out of our ears. Start watching LH- A Meadows for LH OF power.
I was skeptical, I loved Jake Bauers. But after watching Diaz at the plate? Wow. That dude hits the ball hard, like few others in the bigs. The home run he hit last week was a missile, and I would expect power numbers to increase. Even if they only go up a small amount, he will hit .300 and get on base–perfect player for the Rays. And…he has fun when he plays, another key to the Rays. That trade will probably help both teams in the end, but as for now…I am happy to have Diaz.
I didn’t know Mr. Rogers ran the Boston front office
Tulo on the DL? So much for the MVP award Yankee fan had awarded him and gave Cashman the exec of the year award for “ stealing him “ at $5 million year.
They are not paying him 5m a yr,
Big league minimum. Regardless of what happens, it was a move that had to be made. I wanted him in Boston with Pedie’s return date being an unknown. When another team is paying for your past and there are no better internal options, the Yankees had nothing to lose.
Why would you want him in Boston? To keep DP company on the IL? It was only a matter of when Tulo would be on the IL. The Sox didn’t have a spot for him anyway. The Yanks made a good low risk move with him. Anything they get from him is gravy.
Bonus points awarded for saying IL instead of DL. Still not there myself but working on it
Simply would have given him an invite at no cost. Remember he did make the Yankees opening day lineup. Low cost. Did the Yankees cut another player to keep Tulo?
I think you mean league minimum.
Red Sox have yet to play Toronto and Baltimore. That could be 25-30 wins right there. Potentially more.
Remember last year’s Dodgers started 16-26 and managed to win 91 games to force a 1-game playoff. Too early to panic in Boston.
I don’t know any Sox fans panicking. In Yankee fans’ dreams maybe, but nowhere else. If the opened at home playing the O’s and this happened, maybe, but not with this schedule. They’ll be fine. The pitchers were held back a little in ST, and it showed.
Oh Yeh….the O’s would just roll over because it was the Sox….give us a break….the O’s don’t know they’re supposed to lose just because either the Yankees or Red Sox play them…
Both teams are having a tough stretch…at least the Sox won it all last year….my Yankees can only hope to stem the tide and roll on!
I was joking. It’s one week of the season. I am glad the Boston’s struggles are on the road though. Relax.
Yandy Diaz is everything the Rays FO said he was. A beast of a hitter and plays excellent defense. Another great pickup!
To all the people who said the Yankees didn’t need to upgrade this past off season you were wrong.
1..Bringing back Brett Gardner was a terrible idea. – I was right
2..Not signing another top flight SP P Corbin or VIA trade market. – I was right. Many of you said their SP was fine it’s NOT fine.
3. Not signing Harper who is making 24 million a year was a huge mistake.
4. Not going to the FA market this past off season is biting them in their butts. B ig Mistake.
5. Bour or Admans would have been a good fit for 1b. Yankees are still hung up on G Bird who can’t even cut it in the MLB.
6. Brantley whould have been an upgrade over the .09 hitting Gardner.
I have been alife long Yankee fan (46) years old but the Yankees have left a really bad taste in my mouth. I’m currently watching the Phillies something I would have never thought of doing ever. I’m now watching Phillies games and finding other teams to watch who are young have have owenres who wanna win.
To every poster on the Yesnetwork froums I never seen a bunch of wrong people in my life thanks for the laughs and your suffering now.
Alright calm down we are one week into the season. Maybe you should just be a mariners fan they have the best record in the league.
I agree, I’m no fan of Aaron Boone as well who always looks in over his head. Being a NY transplanted down in Florida, I recommend you watch the Rays. They do so much with less and the NY owners are going to move them in the next year or 2 out of the AL east division.
I took some heat for saying Brett Gardner shouldn’t have been signed. The fly ball he missed in the ALDS should have been the final straw. He catches that ball, the series goes 5 games.
Add that plus Sabathia and Zach Britton, no way Harper was going to sign thanks also to Stanton’s contract. Harper, a AAA arm and another AAA bullpen arm over Gardner, Sabathia and Britton? Maybe, maybe not. Tough call.
I still like Gardy, don’t understand why Yank fans don’t. CC was the bigger mistake, and it’s his farewell tour. That’ll make it tougher to get rid of him.
Man could the tribe use Yandy Diaz’s bat right now. They need lindor back tomorrow.