The Red Sox announced that left-hander David Price has been placed on the 10-day injured list due to a left wrist injury. The placement is retroactive to August 5. Price received a cortisone shot after an MRI revealed a TFCC cyst within his wrist. Righty Hector Velazquez has been called up from Triple-A Pawtucket to take Price’s spot on Boston’s roster.
This will be Price’s second IL stint of the year, following a relatively minor two-week absence in May to recover from left elbow tendinitis. This current injury also doesn’t seem overtly serious, though losing Price for any amount of time is another blow to a Red Sox team that is falling further and further back in the AL wild card race.
It’s been a decent, if somewhat unlucky, season for Price, as he has a 4.36 ERA that advanced metrics (3.64 FIP, 3.67 xFIP, 3.81 SIERA) suggest should be lower, plus his .310 xwOBA is slightly outperforming his .324 wOBA. Price’s 10.77 K/9 is the highest of his career, though he has also posted career highs in hard-hit ball rate (37.2%) and home run rate (15%).
Price hasn’t pitched well since the All-Star break, as he has a whopping 10.59 ERA over his last four starts (17 innings). The southpaw’s struggles have contributed to the overall desultory recent performance of Boston’s starting pitching, as Red Sox started have a combined 6.24 ERA over the last 30 days, the third-worst mark of any club in baseball over that timeframe. Velazquez will try and fill Price’s shoes in the rotation, though the swingman has also had a rough go of it in 2019, with a 5.67 ERA over 46 innings this season.
Is he playing fortnight again
Him and Eck are at a couples retreat.
I didn’t realize that his ego was in his wrist.
It’s too bad this total tank job didn’t happen two weeks ago. Red Sox could have gotten at least some halfway decent prospects for guys who are going to be free agents next year and could have helped another team like Moreland and Holt
For Moreland and Holt? Pretty sure they wouldn’t have been in demand. Maybe as a bench bat but can’t see what team would want them. Teams that needed IF help got better players.
You’re focusing on the wrong part of the post.
“Halfway decent prospects” means “halfway decent prospects. There was no “in demand” implied. Point being, the Red Sox would be sellers now, just a bit over a week later.
You can pick the players they could have traded if you don’t like Moreland and Holt.
Agreed. I’d imagine if this was 10 days ago you’d see names like porcello and maybe even jd martinez on that block as well. Probably the only absolute untouchables would be be bogaerts benintendi and devers, with DD at least listening on anyone else. The nogos would be price and sale due to contracts.
Moreland, Holt, and Porcello are the only free agents of note, but yeah, I could have seen Martinez on the block for sure.
I hope Brockstar never leaves.
Porcello was begging to stay, hope they sign him as #5.
Don’t hold your breath. DD isn’t a huge Porcello fan to my knowledge, and, Ricky hasn’t done much to inspire confidence lately either.
Remember, it was DD who chose to trade him away in the first place, and, at even 12m/yr I think the money would be better spent elsewhere.
I like the guy, but, he’s never had great results in boston aside from that one magical season.
You’re joking right!? Porcello has been one of the absolute worst SPs in baseball this season… it barely even looks like he can pitch at this point. Under NO circumstance do I want to see him back in a Red Sox uniform next season. Unless it’s as like the bullpen coach or something lol
Bartollo Colon is on his way to Fenway…..
Looking for the hot dog stand?
LOL!
Big sexy will be missed!
Wow! And this ‘wrist injury’ just so happens to coincide with his baby being born, his dog dying, his verbal assault on the HOF Sox color guy Eck, and all his recent poor performances.
What a cop-out and a prototypical 21st athlete. He opted in to extend his contract and get his $30M per but he doesn’t want to be in Boston and resents the fact that he chased the money, so he is poisoning your players like Mookie Betts and one of the best baseball towns now has to deal with the moody ego-maniacal wimp for many more years! Thanks Dombrowski!
Holy captain overreaction batman.
Mookie is just after FA money. He’s not that good unless you put him in the NYY lineup.
I have never understood this passion Boston fans have had with Eckersley. Yes he’s in the HoF but not as a Red Sox, as a A’s pitcher. Also the things he complains about in other pitchers when you look back at his years pitching he did the same thing. If he was that good at telling people how to correct a problem then become a coach or manager.
It’s like the old say “those that can do, those who can’t teach and those who can’t do either write about it”
And have you ever noticed that when Remy is around Eckersley is much milder. its like they feed off each other.
As for Martinez, Boston couldn’t trade him, because he can opt out at the end of this season. And remember Price is now 34 and he’s thrown a lot of ball, injuries start to catch up with you as you get older.
Boston could have traded Martinez. Even as a potential 2 month rental he would have brought back a good prospect or two.
How about trading Betts..Seems like it is the Nats and Harper all over again..Boston will get zero for him next year.
I think Boston will try to sign him in the off season or in the spring, but I think he’s looking at being a free agent, he saw what Harper. Trout, and Machado got and when he becomes a free agent he will be the number one for that group.
Its hard to trade him though, his salary currently is over 20mil and he goes to arbitration again over the winter. Most teams don’t want to fork out that kind of money on a one year deal.
That would be the overrated Bryce Harper.
Granted Harper isn’t having a good year, but the point I was trying to make was there was a huge interest and boat loads of money offered for those three and from Betts own comments he’s not interested in a contract extension, I think he really wants to try the F/A market and see if he can exceed the ones from this year. Remember in the 2020/2021 FA he barring injury will be the # 1 F/A
Betts has said he’s not interested in a contract extension, which means at the end of 2020 he really wants to test the F/A market, which is not to say Boston won’t resign him as a F/A. . As for Boston getting nothing if they don’t resign him they would get a 1st round draft pick.
True they could have traded him but what team in contention would have picked him up at his current salary given his performance this year. While he is having a decent season its below his normal seasons.
I really hope the Sox keep Martinez around beyond this season. Either by him not opting out or by reworking the current deal. They desperately need his bat in the lineup… as for Betts as much as I’ve loved watching him — if he is indeed going to hold out for FA in search of a Harper payday no matter what the Sox offer a I actually think it might be worth considering dealing him in the off-season. He’s a great player but I really don’t think he’s anywhere near the level of Trout – he had a phenomenal season last year to beat out Trout for MVP but Trout does it year in, year out whereas Betts has more ups and downs and, in my opinion, carries a lot more risk going forward of him not necessarily being able to replicate that type of success on a yearly basis. Especially as he ages and with it, loses some of his speed. He’ll still be a terrific player for years to come… but I just don’t see him as being worth the $ he will probably be able to get on the open market by some team willing to overpay for a “superstar”
I think he will likely stay if its all about money. He’s not having a great season by his standard so his value might have dropped a little to other teams..
But I agree Betts is going to try the F/A market at the end of next year. Which is not to say Boston won’t be in the bidding. As for trading him Boston might like to do that if they could find a team. But it comes down to money. A team rebuilding is not going to lay out 20+ million (his curent salary) for one year, and how many contending teams really need what he has to offer with the same one year return.
Eck said simply said one word, “yuck” when looking at a really poor rehab line for a then unproven young pitcher Rodriguez.
It was Price who turned it into a scene on a team flight and has since not let it go.
So Price defending a team mate is bad, but Eckersley criticizing players is okay. It creates bad feeling and spreads thru out a clubhouse. And if you don’t believe it the incidents you refer to happened last season but on slow news days reports run to Eckersley and ask about him and Price (this occurred a week ago with a Herald Report) just to stir the pot.
Eck is a color guy, not a teammate! And he’s a HOF’er who succeeded as both a reliever and starter, not a journeyman so he’s qualified to comment on a pitchers stat line. A better question is why nowadays do players’ skins seem to get thinner the more guaranteed money they make. You would think the more money and privileges players get that their tough it out would be greater.
No where did I suggest Eckersley was a teammate. He’s a commentator who made a comment about a Boston player and when Price came to the players defense suddenly everyone things that makes Price the bad guy.
As for Eckersley he pitched 24 years in the majors, 10 years as a starter. he had 111 wins and 117 losses in 361 games in which he started, those numbers don’t make him an ace starter. He pitched 7.5 seasons with Boston, he went into the HoF as a great reliever which he was with Oakland not Boston, and yet Boston fans seem to think the sun shines out of a certain orifices and that every word he says is golden.
I love Eck. I grew up watching him n his bad times. I am n was happy for him in Oakland n HOF.
Please don’t misunderstand what I’m saying, as a starting pitcher Dennis Eckersley was about average, where he found his real niche was as a reliever and he was great. But that all occurred in Oakland, when he played in Boston he wasn’t great or even good.
My real issue with Eckersley is his comments about players particularly on other teams, he doesn’t like how they react but he did the same things and worse when he was with Oakland.
And if you listen when its Eckersley and Dave, Eckersley is much milder then when its him and Remy, its like they fed off each other.
I enjoy listening to unbiased commentary that is informative and fun. You never heard Scully Hardwell or Cheek talk like this.
Primadonna hurt again.
The man is 34 and has pitched a lot of innings, that arm is getting worn out. Price is not the problem with Boston, the problem is for some reason they aren’t playing as a unit. Its almost like they don’t like each other. I’m not saying thats the reason but their is no unity
Everyone says that when the team is losing. I hope Panda money is gone so they can replenish the blowpen.
Remember that Panda money is already spent, Sale and Bogaerts got contract extentions which kick in next season. And Betts and Bradley will be looking for more money thru arbitration. And Devers and Benitendi are in that mix somewhere.
I know the owners have deep pockets but Boston is in money trouble being over the luxury tax cost them this season and next year it will be worse. The money is bad but the lose of 1st. round draft picks really hurts.
I think the majority of the guys still like each other — I think Price may be an outlier to this. I don’t know that anyone specifically dislikes him but just look at the way he goes about things and his attitude and I imagine it rubs some of the guys the wrong way. I also imagine some of them kind of think he’s just a weirdo — I mean in his last start, right after his baby was born, he chose to draw a dog paw on his hat as if he were memorializing a family member or teammate who passed. don’t get me wrong losing a pet can certainly be devastating… but drawing a dog paw on your baseball cap… that’s just weird, I’m sorry but he’s a goddamn grown man with a sharpied-on dog paw on his hat… that’s weird as heck lol