The Red Sox have placed right-hander Brayan Bello on the 15-day injured list due to a left groin strain. Boston also optioned righty Kaleb Ort to Triple-A Worcester, with recently-acquired first baseman Eric Hosmer and relievers Matt Barnes and Darwinzon Hernández taking the active roster spots. Barnes is back from the 60-day injured list. He takes the 40-man roster spot of Jackie Bradley Jr., who was released this morning.
Bello left yesterday’s outing against the Astros after suffering the groin issue. The strain is apparently significant enough to keep him out of action for at least a couple weeks, thinning Boston’s rotation depth. One of the club’s top pitching prospects, Bello has made his first five MLB appearances (three starts) this season. He’s been tagged for an 8.47 ERA through 17 innings, but he’s averaging north of 97 MPH on his heater and has induced ground-balls at a huge 65.5% clip.
The Sox have been forced to lean on Bello a bit in recent weeks, as they were concurrently without Chris Sale, Nathan Eovaldi, Rich Hill and Michael Wacha due to injury. Sale will be out for a while due to a finger fracture, but the Sox recently welcomed back Eovaldi and Hill. Wacha is set to toss a four-inning rehab start today, as Chris Cotillo of MassLive relayed yesterday (Twitter link). That suggests he’s likely to be back with the big league club relatively soon, perhaps next week.
Barnes has been out since the end of May with inflammation in his throwing shoulder. The two-month absence capped what had been an awful start to the season for the veteran righty, who has struggled since signing a two-year contract extension last July. He owns a 7.94 ERA across 17 innings on the season, striking out a personal-worst 17.3% of opponents against an untenable 14.8% walk rate. It’s possible the shoulder soreness played a role in that production, however. Manager Alex Cora figures to work Barnes back in lower-leverage situations, but he’s only a year removed from functioning as a key late-game option. Getting Barnes anywhere close to his previous level would be a key boost for a Boston team that ranks 24th in bullpen ERA (4.21).
I’m Brayan Bello that bird injured me
I’m Brayan Bello!
Matt Barnes the human torch he carries a gas can
Lol, Trolllz.
You seem to have misspelled Darwinzon’s name. Sox have hit a new low. Cora continues to play a lost Duran in CF and leave Darwinzon in to get hammered in games that are still within reach. If ever a manager needs to get his ass fired again it’s Cora.
Matty Ice is back!!! Here comes the run we’ve been waiting for!
Sarcasm?
Hosmer must be happy. Forgot his wife was a former NESN hottie. I’m sure she’s happy to be back. Funny how every female NESN employee ends up with a baseball player
Why do you think they get into the business? Latch onto a multi-millionaire then eventually dump him and get a hefty settlement.
I take it you’re divorced?
Goddamn dude
atleast they finally traded fat jay groome
You know about fat.
and ya his wife is pretty however she doesnt hold a candle to jenny dell
I disagree. I think she’s better than Jenny dell but maybe I’m biased because she’s my age.
Heidi for the win. She’s got it all … beauty, intelligence, athletic, great personality.
I still choose Kacie McDonell but Heidi is a great choice.
I have a framed picture of that famous pic of Erin Andrews staring down at Heidi’s you-know-what and she has an extremely jealous look on her face. It’s priceless how even the most beautiful women (Erin) can be jealous.
so you have a framed picture of two women that aren’t related to you or married to you? kind of a weird flex but ok…
acel – It was a gift for my baseball room at home, I’ve got 50 times the number of framed pictures of men (professional athletes), do I need to marry or adopt all of them too?
Famous people are allowed, didn’t you ever watch Friends? LOL!
He has far more framed pictures of men.
Gift or not unless it’s a signed photo/memorabilia or a poster, it is pretty weird for an adult to have 50 unsigned photos of athletes in his house not to the fact mention that’s it’s pretty creepy to have framed picture of two sideline reporters in on display in their house for what seems like no apparent reason other than to leer at them…
so apart from sale we have our entire staff back, or will next week, good be some glimmer of hope
no its not terrible, we lost the games he started and hes NOT ready, he would have been on the roster till September if we wasnt injured and that simply cant happen, hey give the kid 3 years and he’ll be in the rotation, but not now, he gives up to much contact, you need to realize just because someone in the minor leagues throws 97 or 98 that means absolutely nothing in the majors, when he got lit up against Cleveland who doesnt have a good roster
yes it is terrible and you’re terrible too. You’re wishing injury on someone.
sry im with lou merloni on this whos a local sports broadcaster here in boston/former player, hes good but not ready, under impressive and average , he should have been traded.
Can we trade you to another baseball site? You are just awful.
23 years old, 65% grounder clip, great velo, needs to cook a minute longer in AAA… and you’re done with him? We’ll call you in the offseason and see if we can work out a relocation arrangement.
no my friend, jenny is much more attractive, google pictures of her in a bikini or ones she took years ago in a halloween costume, i think she was dorothy from the wizard of oz, her chest is popping out of it, your eyes will fall outta your head, shes a knockout, she married Will Middlebrooks
Sounds like you’re a man, da.
I still say Kacie McDonell
I’m guessing Jayme Parker and Debbi Wrobleski and Tina Cervasio won’t be getting many votes.
I do think Jamie Erdahl wins the Wild Card.
dont pick on the cubs or white sox, when you live in a city where your lucky to make it to age 25 with the murder rate, rooting for crappy baseball teams are really all you have
but as far as my sox go, im just honest, if you need to go through life saying what you think others need to hear then im really sorry you live like that, i have no filter, in life or anywhere else, i say exactly what i need to, you should do the same thing. Also when your team is behind the Baltimore orioles, your a lil aggravated.
stop making excuses for the horrible, misinformed things you’re saying. You’re not being honest. you’re being a hole wishing a serious injury on someone.
and just to end this, with middlebrooks, another mediocre awful player married to a hottie,. i dont get life sometimes. But he did ALOT for the city in 2013 so ill be forever grateful for that, kinda surprising on his numbers overall, he never hit more then 50 home runs in his entire career.
he essentially joined the team cause everyone hated kevin YOUK
jimdevinmoriah
I love Amada and her forthright comments. she tells it like it is. don’t listen to them kid!
I hope this is sarcasm. If not you’re as a big of an a hole as amanda is…
heidi was and is a bombshell, i remember going to the games and she sat next to the dug out on a foldout chair with her feet up, she knew she was amazingly hot, the players would legite just stare at her, i remember she was on a radio show years ago and the host asked her how its like focusing on her job when she is so attractive, she just said ‘ im used to it’ i loved her honesty, btw WHY was she fired from the MLB network, she used to host ‘ quick pitch’ she was funny and really smart and gave lil jokes and brought humor to it
oh she joined apple tv, thanks google
erin andrews is NOT beautiful, at all, i watched those peephole videos of her in the hotel room and i was dude, you went to jail to see that?! but the quality was awful,
getting back to beautiful red sox/nesn anaylists, dont forget Kathryn thapern.
think about it, the red sox only hired beautiful smart women to do sideline reporting and now they dont use anyone, ironic aint it?
Define irony: NESN hiring Amanda to do sideline reporting.
i never liked erin, her bursting into tears that guy ‘ ruined her life’ was annoying and laughable, even the guy was like shut up already
id love too! atleast i wouldn’t spend 20 minutes on when a guy gets married or has a kid, id actually focus on how much the team sucks, or id pretend a guy hitting 188 is ‘ turning the corner’
sry alex, but when a guys hitting 205 you can only say for so long he ‘ looked good in the cages’
whats wrong with that? i have a framed and autographed picture over my bed of Alex morgan.
Who are you talking to?
Barnes is still better than Darwinzon Hernandez. Cora should be designated for assignment after putting Darwinzon into a tie game.
im talking to the person who mentioned erin andrews
barnes is a great pitcher and will be fine, other than team faking his injury he simply lost his confidence