Red Sox left-hander David Price exited his start in Houston on Saturday after facing just three hitters, according to reporters. Price was “laboring” during his abbreviated outing and saw his fastball top out around 90 mph, Jen McCaffrey of The Athletic tweets. It’s a notable decline for Price, who entered the start averaging 92.4 mph on his fastball. Furthermore, this was just Price’s second game since he missed two weeks on account of elbow inflammation. [UPDATE: The Red Sox announced that Price left because of flu-like symptoms.]
Here’s more out of Boston, courtesy of Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com (links here):
- The Red Sox are shutting down injured second baseman Dustin Pedroia after he suffered a setback during a Double-A rehab game Friday. Boston will reevaluate Pedroia, whose oft-problematic left knee sent him to the injured list April 18, on Monday. Manager Alex Cora admitted this is “another red flag” for the 35-year-old Pedroia, who appeared in a meager three games during the Red Sox’s World Series-winning 2018 campaign and has only played in six this season. He remains a ways off from potentially factoring back into Boston’s lineup, Cotillo observes. If there’s a silver lining to Pedroia’s absence, it’s the emergence of second baseman Michael Chavis, a 23-year-old rookie who has taken the position and run with it so far.
- While Pedroia’s nowhere close to returning, Boston’s position player group will add depth Sunday when injured utility player Brock Holt comes off the IL. Eye and shoulder issues have kept Holt out of the major league mix since April 5 and limited him to six games and 19 plate appearances. But the 30-year-old is only a season removed from slashing .277/.362/.411 (109 wRC+) and totaling 1.4 fWAR over 367 PA, a span in which he lined up all over the diamond (primarily second).
- Right-hander Nathan Eovaldi is “coming along quickly” in his recovery from late-April elbow surgery, Cotillo writes. Eovaldi threw a bullpen session Saturday, his second since going under the knife, and could either throw a multi-inning sim game or embark on a rehab assignment next, per Cotillo. One of Boston’s second-half heroes in 2018, the 29-year-old Eovaldi got off to a rough start this season even before surgery, managing a 6.00 ERA/6.99 FIP with 6.86 K/9 and 4.71 BB/9 in 21 innings (four starts). Eovaldi’s in the first season of a four-year, $67.5MM contract, making his early 2019 struggles all the more alarming.
I’ve been a Red Sox fan for decades, and Pedroia has had a great career. But seriously. Enough..
Sadly, DPed is never coming back…..
Yeah I think this is another David Wright type of situation
I totally agree, he is probably done, but they pay him either way. Why wouldn’t they do all they can to bring him back?
He needs to just retire and allow the team to move forward. Isn’t Marco Hernandez finally back from his shoulder problems anyways?
Why would he retire and walk away from the millions he’s owed. Put him on the 60 day IL and let me him mentor and coach.
Hernandez has been playing at multiple levels in rehabbing his shoulder woes of the last 2 seasons and doing well. Also doing good at Pawtucket last week plus with several multi hit games and 1 4 hit game.
Thing is will Sox finally cast aside Nunex and remainder of his 5m salary then go with Holt, Chavis, hernandez as some kind of rotation at 2b with Chavis playing 1b rest of the time whenever Holt is also recalled (he’s also rehabbing).
Are we absolutely certain that Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury aren’t the same person? Has anyone seen them together since 2014?
i guess Price really doesnt want to have to face Gary again huh
Price left the game because of flulike symptoms
Come on Pedroia, it’s time to enjoy your familiy, go home, get some rest and retire already.
So, Price has caught the dreaded elbow flu???
Pedey has about 32 million reasons not to retire…this just in, that’s a lot of money…..
I believe if he retires due to injury he still collects his salary.
Only if a doctor finds he cannot and will not be medically cleared to play like Prince Fielder.
Pedroia was a shoe in hall of fame player. As a Yankee fan I used to hate to see him step to the plate. He was everything Cano wasn’t. A 1/4 of the ability but a huge heart. I think he’s still borderline but he just doesn’t have the Biggio or Sandburg numbers to get in.
I think he gets some votes but comes short. He didn’t have the sustained performance to get there. Sadly, he will be a member of Boston’s HOF but will never reach Cooperstown. This coming from a die hard Yankees fan that loved to watch a rival with a heart and determination far above his natural abilities.
Pedroia is not a hall of fame guy he is great loved him and the hustle and intensity he played with but he won’t make the hall as much as that pains me. He was a great Red Sox player I wish he could continue but even a die hard like me doesn’t believe he will come back.
He’s going to remembered in the vein of a Ron Guidry type. Great player but not sustained long enough
If being a first-rate player for a few seasons then getting hurt were still good enough for the HOF, then Herb Score and Roger Maris would be there.
OF course Score had a very good excuse suffering what may have been the most horrendous injury ever in baseball other than Chapman and Conigliaro.
Sandberg numbers aren’t really all that great by HOF numbers anyhow when you compare him to other HOF’ers. Sandberg career numbers are .285 avg/.344 obp/.452 slg/282 HR/2,386 H/1,061 RBI compared to Pedroia .299 avg/.365 obp/.439 slg/140 HR/1,805 H/725 RBI. Even with a health shortened career, Pedroia’s numbers aren’t really that far off from Sandbergs. Though HAD he stayed healthy, I think he’d of easily passed him. But the injuries I think definitely cost him an easy route in. But that doesn’t mean he can’t get in. It’s a bit of a popularity contest at times anyhow. Really matters who else is on the ballot.
He probably will collect regardless. A Rod collected the last two years of his contract sitting in the front office for the Yankees. That’s pretty common with these new contracts players are negotiating. The money is guaranteed rather they play or not, teams cover the contracts with insurance just for those situations. Please understand the entire business before commenting about salaries. The players get paid regardless. The teams don’t lose either way other than salary ramifications towards their luxury tax cap.
The teams do lose in that they cover the insurance costs for all large contracts whether the players get hurt of not.It is a hidden cost in running a baseball team.My guess is that it is a fairly substantial $# for the wealthiest teams with the highest salaries.
Rest assured that the insurance companies do not lose money overall.
Arod collected because he was going to get DFA’d by the Yankees. If Boston released Him then he’d get paid but if he decides to retire now he’d forfeit the remaining money on his contract.
Pedroia was a player like Jeter. He might have been overshadowed by papi but he was the heart of that team. Move on of course. But just remember what a player of that caliber can do for a city.
American League version of David Wright.
Perfect illustration of why teams shouldn’t give out big longterm contracts to aging in players past 30
I bet Price makes his wife/kids get the spider on the wall.
Lmao