June 8: Dermody’s contract has now been officially selected, per a club announcement, with Chris Murphy optioned in a corresponding move.
June 7: The Red Sox are calling up left-hander Matt Dermody to start tomorrow night’s matchup with the Guardians, tweets Ian Browne of MLB.com. Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe first noted that Dermody had a locker in the Boston clubhouse. He’s not on the 40-man roster, so the Sox will have to formally select his contract before the game.
Dermody signed a minor league deal with Boston over the winter. He’s worked primarily from the rotation with Triple-A Worcester, starting eight of nine appearances. While the southpaw’s 4.50 ERA isn’t eye-catching, he’s posted solid peripheral marks.
The 32-year-old has punched out just under a quarter of opposing hitters against a meager 4.7% walk rate. He has induced grounders at a decent 45.3% clip. A lofty .346 batting average on balls in play and middling 67.8% left-on-base rate have inflated his run prevention figure despite his other solid numbers.
Of course, Dermody isn’t a lock to carry over those decent rate stats against big league hitters. This will be his first MLB start. Dermody has only ever worked out of the bullpen at the big league level, with virtually all of that experience coming six years ago for the Blue Jays. He carries a 5.60 ERA with an 18.2% strikeout percentage in 27 1/3 MLB frames.
Dermody still has a pair of minor league options remaining. The Red Sox can send him back to Worcester at any point without exposing him to waivers. It’s possible this is just a spot start, although Boston has a rotation vacancy after losing Chris Sale to the injured list last week. The Red Sox turned to swingman Kutter Crawford today, but he was tagged for three runs in as many innings while taking the loss to Cleveland.
Boston already has an opening on the 40-man roster after designating Raimel Tapia for assignment on Monday. They’ll only need to create space on the 26-man active roster to accommodate Dermody’s promotion.
I assume Murphy will be optioned to make room on the active roster
Murphy had a good debut today. 3.1 IP, 2 hits, 0 runs, 5 K, 1 walk
Drafted 4 times. 4 seperate stints in affiliated ball. Experience in the Majors, NPB, KBO, and indy ball. And bro is only 32. Wild.
if nothing else, he is a commodity.
It’s starting to feel a lot like 2020 again, except with slightly more fans at Fenway.
Just one fan in the seats is more than in 2020…
I’m pretty sure that was the joke
Is Zack Godley or Kyle Hart from the 2020 team available? Trey Ball or Henry owens next man up
I hope they don’t send Murphy back down after a nice debut, but it might be the only move available to them unless they are going to DFA Kluber.
Dare to dream: DFA Ort or Rodriguez. Bloom drooled over Kluber for 3 years, he won’t cut him loose this soon
I doubt Murph’s debut is an indication. Anyone remember Ted Cox?
I cannot believe Kaleb Ort still has a roster spot. Bloom absolutely loves the guy for no good reason whatsoever.
There was a battle with brasier. Apparently, Ort won out in the ‘special services’ contest.
Of course they will sent Murphy down after a nice debut after pitching 3 innings. Do not worry he will be back soon enough.
Any bullpen arm with options is going to be sent down on a revolving door basis unless they are a closer or 1 or 2 high leverage set up arms.
A pitcher with options is WAY more valuable than one does not (unless-refer to the first paragraph).
This dude is going to get torched at the MLB level. 2.2 IP 7 hits 7 runs 1 BB 0K
Seamus – No the torched will be Kluber for 7 runs in his Red Sox farewell bomb in front of his two time Cy Young fans, then get a DFA from the Red Sox. Pink slip for Kluber (to make room for Adam Duval to be activated for the weekend series in New York). Dermody get a ticket back to Worcester if he clears waivers then an outright to AAA. After Dermody’s wonderful tweet, he should easily clear waivers.
The article is misleading. Crawford pitched very well, Two of the runs against him were extremely cheap—soft infield hits— and one was unearned.
Wait, you want them to watch the game? Who has time for that!
or the interest
Very sloppy defense in that game. Not Crawford’s fault.
LOL at MLB-R. They’ve been getting more and more sloppy. Saying that he surrendered 3 runs, without saying only one was earned, is so misleading that they’d have been better off skipping it completely.
From a peripheral perspective, while one game is meaningless, having a 3/0 K/W in three innings, with -0- HRs, is a very good start.
And I am still wondering whatever happened to their article on Matt Chapman being in line for an enormous contract, based on numbers that included a BABIP of maybe .485, which I noted in my comment might be unsustainable.
True to regression form, Chapman as a .598 OPS since May 1st. In the olden days, MLB-R never missed these things.
what could you expect from the defence with Kike at short and the revolving door ar 2B not to mention the fact that Devers is not a GG candidate at 3B either. you get what you pay for in this sport
Just keep watching…
Boston has, of note, (and I may have missed one or two in counting) roughly 37 more games in the AL east, 7 against the Astros, and 3 against the Rangers.
In other words, half their games are against really good teams. That’s not to mention the other talented NL squads they have waiting.
On the flip side, my mental count of the schedule, again, could’ve missed something, shows they’ve only got about 10 or so games against the As and Royals combined.
This is to say their schedule doesn’t get all that much easier than it’s been going forward.
what could you expect from the defence with Kike at short
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It shouldn’t have been this bad. He’s not a real SS, but his career-to-date numbers are 6 errors in 618 innings. It’s hard to imagine him having 13 errors in 384 innings this year. That’s about 260% of his career results.
But Joe, my opinion in the offseason was it would, and, let me tell you why: he had a moderate error rate at a position he lacked extended and regular experience. Then he has a slow, error prone 3B to his right – so there’s pressure to cover, and, less help. Then youve got nobody at 2B he can rely on either. Add on top he knew how Yoshi sets in LF, and, that yoshi isn’t a ball charger or going to back him up.
Really you’re putting on guy out of position with a ton of mental pressure to cover the failings of the guys around him, PLUS the normal stress to step up and perform for RSN and their expectations.
It was, IMO, a recipe for disaster, and, it has been pretty bad….
GASoxFan–you raise some excellent points
JoeBrady;
Things are deteriorating here rapidly, in both the articles and comments.
People are jumping to conclusions using publicly available general statistics and show little perspective. The season isn’t even half-way over yet.
I truly wonder if anyone here watches the games.
If you hear the sound of fingernails on a black board that’s Bloom scraping the bottom of the barrel because he spent so much time playing with dumpster diving he forgot to stock the roster with viable players!!!
The fact that this guy is being brought up should trigger a pink slip for Bloom. He’s failed miserable and fans need something positive to draw our attention away from the summer and back to baseball.
Somebody needs to make shirts that tell Cora Yoshida bats right in front of Devers who bats 3rd!!!! 2nd and 4th aren’t cutting it. The highest OBP needs to bat in front of Devers since he’s the only legitimate hitter on the team.
Except, right now it doesn’t really matter. Devers hasn’t been coming through with the hits anyways.
.714 OPS in May
.695 in June.
The lineup changes on Friday with Duvall in the heart of the order.
Are you expecting him to be on the same tear he was on two months ago?
A guy who is a 233 career hitter that hit 213 last year
Pedro – Great point. Duvall isn’t as good as he was playing and is it a lot to ask of him to suddenly be hot AGAIN?
Cora is sitting Verdugo against CLE which leaves the team with:
Duran Lefty, Yoshida Lefty, Turner Righty, Devers Lefty, Casas Lefty
ONLY DECENT PLAYERS ARE LEFTIES EXCEPT FOR TURNER!!!
Great planning BLoom!!!!
Cora has four hitters over .250 and he’s sitting one of them against CLE.
Yoshida, Duran and Turner are playing
Note Devers the $30MM man is not on the list of .250 or greater hitters!!.
Yoshida and Verdugo are the only two players with OBPs over .350. Turner and Duran are close with .343 and .333 respectively.
There are TWO players with OPS+ significantly greater than 100
Yoshida at 139 and Verdugo 120. Raffy is at an embarrassing 107.
$30MM NOT WORTH IT!!! Plus he can’t field and I don’t care how many errors the score keepers refuse to count.
The RED SOX HITTING consists of a grossly underperforming over paid DH who plays 3B and kills the pitching staff. A new foreign player who is doing fabulously compared to the scouting reports. A league average outfielder (Verdugo) who is having his typical fast start but historically fades as the season progresses back to being league average. A senior citizen DH who is playing as expected. A young 1B who walks a lot otherwise he’d never be on base. And a bunch of minor league players that are playing against MLB players and failing badly as one would expect.
That’s what Bloom has done to the team in nearly FOUR years. While the record is average for the MLB, the talent level matches the worst teams in the league.
What is ownership waiting for? How can they possibly see a light at the end of the tunnel? Is it embarrassing to admit that hiring Bloom and Cora were MONUMENTAL MISTAKES? If so, suck it up and do the right thing so fans can have some semblance of optimism that is justified.
If Bloom and Cora return for 2024, it officially marks the Red Sox franchise as a joke.
The Guardians seem to have trouble with guys they haven’t faced before or at least it seems that way from a fans standpoint.
Sadly he will pitch 6 innings of shutout ball tonight. That’s just the way it’s been going for us this year
The Guardians are overloaded with LH hitters and don’t have one – let alone 2 – RH hitters that can counter oppositions LH pitchers.
They’ve done this on and off for years. It’s nothing new to see teams call up LH pitchers to face them, and have teams pull LH pitchers out of their bullpens to start against them.
Samuel – Thay have 4 lefties, 3 righties and 2 switch hitters in their line-up tonight. Rosario while having a bad season is a good right handed bat. Jose Ramirez is a switch hitter. Myles Straw is a league average player with great speed who is a righty. Josh Bell like Ramirez is a good all-around hitter that bats from both sides of the plate.
So I’m not sure putting a bad minor league left handed pitcher in against the very good Cleveland line-up is a wise idea. They would be better off with an opener game using the relievers who haven’t got much work lately to start the game and let them go until it gets ugly and move to the next one.
None of those RH hitters are hitting well against LH pitching.
Don’t have the time to look up their BA’s against LH pitching. Saw them a few weeks ago. Not a one is hitting them well. They’re awful.
The Tigers and other teams have pitched so-so LH pitchers against teams and they couldn’t hit them. Jose Ramirez in particular has been bad hitting RH this year.
Samuel – Good stats. How do you think he did tonight?
KD17;
Got me there!
KD17;
Got me there on Rameriz!….
Although Bell, Rosario, and Straw got their one hit apiece against a RH pitcher.
Samuel – I was sincerely asking what you thought of the called up pitcher. I didn’t get to see the game.
Think he’s a career minor league pitcher.
Great, another nobody with an FIP over 7.00.
Dermody did about as expected. Now it’s Kluber’s turn. Oh boy.
They gotta cut Kluber. It’s just sad seeing him out there.
Dermody at least 8 some innings while Cleveland ate Kluber.
Whyhayzee – Do you think Kluber tanked to make the kid feel better? WOW.
The good news is Paxton is doing alright, Bello, Houck, Pivetta and Crawford are taking their YOUNG SP bumps but overall seem to be progressing. It should be fun to see how good they get by year end. I hope all the crazies thinking this was a playoff team have gotten a big enough bite of reality to realize that it’s not going to happen so we can simply focus on watching the young players get better.
With you on that.
A lot of the young players the Red Sox have probably don’t have a ton of upside., but now is the time to find out.