Red Sox hurler Eduardo Rodriguez will take a step back from his effort to return from a bout of COVID-19, manager Ron Roenicke tells reporters including MLB.com’s Ian Browne (Twitter link). Rodriguez is said to be dealing with “minor complications” from the virus.
It’s obviously not clear what specifically is ailing Rodriguez, who has continued to test negative for an active infection. Roenicke says the club is taking the measure to ensure that Rodriguez clears out any nagging issues relating to the disease.
Thankfully, it seems there’s ample confidence that Rodriguez will make a full and rapid recovery. The skipper says that all believe he will be able to resume pitching and make it back to the majors this year. Nevertheless, it’s a sobering reminder that this illness isn’t necessarily a non-event, even for otherwise exceptionally healthy young athletes.
The Virus has caused long term effect in many and medical scientists expect it to disable many thousands with thing like neurological damage, lung damage, heart damage etc…
Poor kid, he’s a delight to watch. This is a reminder the virus is nothing to fool around about.
Who cares, he’ll be fine.
@richard. I care. Most kind people who have any compassion would care. Rodriguez is clearly having some sort of issue related to his bout with the virus, and,
that is a total bummer for him, and those around him that it affects. Find your heart dude!
@richard dangler
You can’t say that with any degree of certainty. He could be fine, he could also potentially face long-term effects or spread the virus unknowingly to someone else who *won’t* be fine. I do not understand, given what we know and have seen from this virus–especially from other countries, why people like you persist in downplaying this.
What do you get out of it? You must like baseball, since you’re here, so why do you keep pushing this agenda and attitude when it will only lead to more chaos and uncertainty as it relates to baseball?
Hopefully.
Let’s hope he gets healthy. With or without him, our pitching staff is in shambles.
I have marvelled at how high the BOS pitching staff has been ranked on FanGraphs. Derek Fisher hit two HR in the Tuesday exhibition! A bad sign of things to come.
Really nice position players, though.
Hopefully Red Sox new ace will be okay
He’s the Red Sox new #1. There are 6-7 “aces” in all of baseball – Rodriguez is not an ace, though he’s got great stuff.
In other news a motorcycle rider just died of Covid
As interesting as that information would be, it sounds like that would belong on a different site. Thanks!
This story, however, shows that there may be lingering symptoms after being cleared to resume activity. One cannot simply assume a return to full health, because we still don’t know a lot about this new and novel disease.
Lets not forget all the others listed as covid even though they died of another disease. .and the motorcycle death listed as covid was in Florida…if everyone is honest and they fix all the death certificates, there will be maybe 5000 pure covid19 deaths
Please provide a source for any of this inane rambling.
He’s a suffering Mets fan. Nothing more to say…
My aunt had cancer. While in hospice it “magically “ switched
To covid
It’s called a newspaper and a television…how about the ppl in Florida that were waiting on line to take the test, left because it was too long, then get a call saying your positive.
She might have been receiving hospice care due to terminal cancer but if COVID accelerated her demise, it could be an accurate accounting. Regardless, sorry for your loss Ironman.
Its admitted by dr birx and others that have been on tv, just because you got the virus they put it on the death certificates even if its not the reason for cause of death……. its all about getting federal funds. ” follow the money”
Wrong again Metsfan. When federal funds were doled out previously, the government used a formula that favored Republican states. NY at the time was the worst hit state aNd got screwed in comparison to funding sent to Red States that as of then hadn’t been hit nearly as hard.
Im in ny.we got hit hard because of the governor. He has almost 8000 deaths on his hands..and our moron mayor said we cant be in groups unless we are protesters or blm.
Mistakes will always happen when you have 100,000s of samples.. and in this instance the mistake was corrected ” Fox 35 inquired with Orange County Health Officer Raul Pino, MD, about two COVID-19 deaths that were reported among individuals in their 20s last week. The Florida Department of Health said COVID-19 can be listed as the immediate or underlying cause of death, but instances such as trauma, homicide and motor-vehicle accidents are supposed to be excluded from the COVID-19 death rates.
On July 18, the state removed the motorcyclist’s death from the list of COVID-19 fatalities. In Florida, medical examiners certify all COVID-19 deaths.” beckershospitalreview.com/data-analytics/florida-c…
Thanks guys, you deleted 2 of my responses to looie..way to go .might as well get rid of the comments section again or at least explain to us why i keep getting deleted off but other comments that are similar stay.