Triston Casas suffered a “significant knee injury” during tonight’s win over Minnesota, manager Alex Cora told reporters (including Chris Cotillo of MassLive). According to Ian Browne of MLB.com, Casas remains at a local hospital after being taken off the field on a stretcher.
The injury occurred in the second inning. Casas hit a check-swing chopper up the first base line. When Joe Ryan bobbled the ball, Casas lunged to the first base bag in an attempt to beat the throw. He hit the base awkwardly and stumbled over the foot of Minnesota first baseman Ty France. Casas immediately favored his left knee and was down for several minutes before being stretchered off. Romy Gonzalez finished the game at first base.
It’s devastating news for Casas, who is facing a second lengthy absence in as many seasons. He was shelved between late April and the middle of August last year by a lingering rib injury. He hit .241/.337/.462 with 13 homers in 63 games when healthy. Casas has struggled early this season, posting a .182/.277/.303 slash with a trio of homers across 112 trips to the dish. The Red Sox will presumably provide more specifics on the injury and treatment plan in the coming days.
Gonzalez has started seven games at first base this season. He’s the only player other than Casas to log any action there. Gonzalez is a multi-positional infielder who has spent the bulk of his career at second base. He’s hitting reasonably well this season but entered play tonight with a career .245/.277/.388 batting line over 499 plate appearances. It’s unlikely that the Sox would want to rely on him as an everyday first baseman for an extended stretch.
The Sox don’t have an obvious solution in the minors. Nathan Hickey is the primary first baseman at Triple-A Worcester. He’s hitting .262/.300/.429 through his first 22 games of the season. Infielder Abraham Toro is having a much better year for the WooSox, hitting .323/.417/.500 across 115 plate appearances. He has made five starts at first base this year and has 90 career major league innings at the position. He’s likelier to receive a call-up than is Hickey, but he’s more of a second baseman/third baseman with a somewhat similar profile to Gonzalez.
One speculative possibility would be to turn to Rafael Devers, who hasn’t played a single defensive inning all season. Devers has never played a professional inning at first base. He’s obviously familiar with the infield, but Cora made clear at the beginning of the season that the Sox viewed him as a full-time designated hitter for the time being. It seems they want Devers focused exclusively on maintaining an offensive rhythm as the DH rather than getting occasional defensive work after being pushed off third base by the Alex Bregman signing.
That may need to change at some point. Keeping Devers as a full-time DH would essentially block any path to playing time for Masataka Yoshida whenever he’s able to return from a shoulder injury. Yoshida could theoretically play some left field, but that’d require pushing Jarren Duran to center and would only be an option until top outfield prospect Roman Anthony comes up from Triple-A. There’d be more flexibility if the Red Sox were comfortable using Devers at first base.
Rizzo is waiting by the phone.
No thanks.
Brandon Belt also waits.
No thanks.
Steve Garvey remains unsigned.
A Republican first baseman in Boston,? They’d dig up the Boomer first.
I am still mostly alive and I’d play for beer and unclean women.
Bregman to 1B, Devers to 3B, or the other way, depending upon if Devers can handle 1B.
Devers has had 951 games and 8268.2 innings to prove conclusively that he can’t handle 3rd.
1st makes more sense, though I wouldn’t expect any miracles there either.
I believe Devers has lead the league with errors at 3B since 2018. I guess this may give him some time to continue his streak if he does go back to third?
Me neither. Nothing will make it clearer how underrated 1B defense can be than having a horrible fielder there. I just watched Michael Toglia for 3 days. He was quite bad.
That’s funny, because Toglia came up with a rep as one of the best defensive 1B in the minor leagues. Man, what else can go wrong for the Rockies.
Not to be too off topic but he didn’t seem to be giving much effort. For all I know he’s a tad injured but perhaps it’s also playing for a garbage club.
Canuck – I agree, but miracles are not needed at first base. It’s the least important position and almost anyone can play it. Vladdy was worse at 3B than Devers and he obviously made the transition.
Metrics are weak at 1B. Even if the average MLB player can learn it that involves time. You make it sound like you could throw him over there tonight. For a quick oversimplification I will just say a huge amount of throwing errors and close plays at first where they don’t get the out are caused by either a short 1B, one who gets to the base late for a target, or one who doesn’t stretch well. And it’s not obvious. It’s because the infielders don’t trust him blindly. If you have a good fielder there you take it for granted that you can throw it in the ZIP code and he’ll get it. It’s like if you don’t trust a catcher to block. Toglia cost his team at least 4 outs in one series. It’s because they are involved in so many plays that it is possible. Also if a guy is quick he can get well off the bag and let the 2B play further over but he has to either get back quick to give a good target or have so much faith from his IF that they just throw it in the ZIP code
Great idea… Move a Gold Glove 3B to a new position and replace him with perhaps the worst 3B in MLB.
I approve of this plan. Of course, I’m a Yankee fan.
Do you think mentioning returning Devers to third was trolling?
Dewey – I never assume because we don’t know anything about the people doing the posting. Could be 12 years old, could be 95, could have challenges they are dealing with, etc.
Dewey, I don’t believe removing Bregman from 3B to learn 1B to return Devers to 3B is the answer.
I’m not sure what is the cleanest answer, but if someone is going to have to learn 1B on the fly, how about Story, a good athlete with diminishing range, with Rafaela playing SS, opening the door for Anthony in the OF? Or, Story at 1B, and turning Rafaela into a super utility player for now, and going really bold and calling up Anthony and Mayer, who takes over at SS.
I’d leave Bregman at 3B.
Fever, I responded to Dewey thinking he was asking me, but then I realized it was likely the other poster. It’s sometimes hard to tell with threading on a mobile phone and before my morning coffee.
For the record, I’m neither 12 nor 95, although disturbingly I’m closer to 95 than 12!
Lord – Yeah I’m pretty sure he was asking you about the other guy’s comment. We all get why you endorse the other guy’s comment. Lol!
And I’m closer to 95 too ;o)
I think a majority of the posters on here are 50+
This right here, I’d shift Story and call up Meyer. That’s plan A, plan B is trading Abreu for a 1st baseman and calling up Roman Anthony. That is what I’d be looking at, Abreu can get ya something serviceable and I think Story is capable of transitioning and it’d probably add 3 or 4 years to his career long term.
Well, that is a very nice way to describe and think about what happens to be a very large group of the commenters that show up on here in routine fashion – “Dealing with challenges”.
Wut
Making two positions worse doesn’t compute. Breg stays at third. Devers is awful. On the bright side Casas is not a good first baseman so nearly anyone that thumps playing there will look about the same.
Gary, is that age or IQ?
As for me, it’s IQ.
Of course better to keep Bregman at 3B if possible, the question is could and would Devers handle 1B at a tolerable level? If not, Devers to 3B is better than Yosh at 1B.
Terrible idea. You don’t move a gold glove 3b off the position and put the guy with the most errors over the last 5 years at 3rd. And Devers would assuredly be a hack at 1b, a position he’s never played.
JScott – I totally agree with your first part, but why would you assume Devers can’t handle first base? Plenty of bad or declining third basemen have made the switch to to first base. Raffy’s fielding issues were mostly on throws, that wouldn’t be an issue at first base.
I’ll never understand why some people make the assumption something can’t be done, without even trying it first.
Tbf, while he still has a positive DWAR, Breg has the worst FP and most errors on the team. Not exactly a beacon of defensive stability so far.
I bet he could pull 15-20 out towards Pesky pole with 400 at bats.
I’m actually waiting to hear the arenado rumors start agajn
can mayer play first until story collapses
Not a good idea. Bouncing players around like that really screws up development. Look how swihart was literally destroyed by being mismanaged, and, he was one of the games top prospects not as a rookie level ball guy but a near mlb ready product… bouncing guys out of position shouldnt be done for expediency
Mlb – Actually Rizzo has already joined the Red Sox and I’m very happy to have her.
The Sox also have Yasmani Grandal in Worcester right now. He does have 97 career games at 1B in the majors.
Heck no. Boston may need him at catcher soon if Wong doesn’t start hitting and Narvaez’s bat regresses.
Narvaez’s bat is in permanent regression. His value is behind the plate.
swan – He had a .780 OPS combined between AA and AAA which is great for a catcher.
Funny thing about grandal at 1B, there’s nothing preventing you from moving him back off it later.
Not that it’s a good idea mind you.
Wong also has a *very* few starts at 1B… I think he’s been there a dozen, dozen and a half games in the past year or so.
Not that that is a good idea either.
GaSox – Yep there’s no reason why Grandal can’t platoon between catcher and first base. He’s really bad at throwing runners out though.
Playing means nothing, Cora has played just about everyone just about everywhere. Doesn’t mean they are good. I played basketball, I don’t think the Celts would want me.
Fever – Grandal will be good for thirty or fourty games before his knees go.
Tough break for Casas. Opens up the roster, will be interesting to see how Boston manages 1st base and how they do Casas in ’26.
He will be ARB1, he should get a raise in ’26 even with the season ending injury but will he have a spot of the roster?
miller – His raise would be small because the lookback window is usually a couple years and he’s played only 92 games over this 2-year period.
It’s the same reason why Crochet was expected to make only $2.9M in arbitration this season, because of all the missed time.
Grandal is toast. Terrible catcher.
Grandal was once great, defensively and offensively, but he has had a lot of issues with injuries.
Might be a blessing in disguise with the way he’s been playing.
Losing Casas is no blessing… Come on, my friend.
Casas has been a slow starter for his entire career so far. His career numbers in April/May are bad, but he heats up with the weather and has been a borderline elite level bat from June onwards.
You’re right. As a Yankee fan I’ve been worried he would turn into an elite consistent contributor. Sadly for him he can’t seem to avoid the injury bug.
The stretcher use makes me inclined to think he may be done for the year, or, at least till the end of summer. The fact he didn’t even try walking off with assistance tells me a lot about the seriousness
It’s always annoying to me watching guys trying to walk off the field when they need to swallow their pride and use the stretcher. Watching Acuna trying to walk off the field twice with torn ACLs…(he’s 1for2). Same attitude with catchers. Why is it so unmanly to take a moment after you get a ball fouled off your face yet then the umpire has the same thing happen and you insist on giving him the same break you don’t want. All some social ritual to look tough?
I was at the game oin SF when Pedroia broke his foot on a foul ball, stayed in to take a BB, then walked down to first before being taken out. Of course we admire their grit, but you have to wonder if it worsened the injury.
I mainly get annoyed when a guy is clearly injured but the manager keeps letting them try to coax them to stay in the game (or trying to convince them they can walk off the field). Dollander bleeding all over the ball the other day at 88 pitches throwing warm ups to try to prove hes fine all for one more out on a 4 win team (your top prospect). I don’t blame the player really but just take them out (or call the stretcher out is my point). No discussion. Managers need to be more assertive there.
You’re looking to breakdown those important social barriers huh?
Slow start means he can’t hit pitchers when they are at their best. Pitching quality deteriorates as the season goes on. That’s why guys get called up 2nd half, ball out, then can’t reproduce their numbers next year when season starts
Casas is toast. Diving at that bag could be the worst mistake of his career
Whiff…He didnt dive he tripped on the 1bs foot..watch the replay its pretty obvious
@Big wihiffa – Tell me you didn’t watch the play without telling me you didn’t watch the play.
Casas didn’t “dive at the bag.” He did shift his run inside the base path and try to cut off the throwing lane though. It was insanely stupid, and just another example of why runners are told not to do it. Casas should have been out due to runner interference anyway.
Anyway, Casas landed with his “right” foot on the middle of first base, then had to awkwardly lift and swing his leg over Ty France’s leg because he was running so far inside. Casas didn’t get his leg up high enough and his foot ran into France’s lower leg hard. As Casas went down, he landed on his left knee. My guess, strained PCL.
GASoxFan
The stretcher use makes me inclined to think he may be done
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It doesn’t happen often, but occasionally you can get an explosion of pain tat makes you wonder if you will ever walk again, and then subsides after the shock is over.
The way he’s been playing was .290/.375 over his L7… That’s what makes this even more heartbreaking, it was finally clicking for him! his plate discipline was second only to Campbell tbh.
Not everyone pays attention to the stats. He’s been mostly okay in April.
Every couple games it looked like he had been steadily improving. I think he was on track to being a monster again, it appeared to begin to click. I struggle to say that with conviction because I recognize Boston is a .500 ball club while playing the softest schedule so far in the game. So was it a bad sign he started badly against those squads, or is he just a slow starter? We were gonna get that answer but he got hurt.
Von?
Seems obvious to mix and match Romy Gonzalez and Devers, unless Devers surprises defensively. Gotta at least give him some 1B reps, right?
Cora has been pretty adamant he wouldn’t slot Devers into 1B… also, he’s started to heat up and get into the groove as DH. Not sure they want to screw that up by having him try 1B on the fly mid-season
GaSox – Just curious, what if Devers starts taking first base reps tomorrow and does well for a couple weeks. Would that make a difference?
The calls for Devers to try first base are growing louder and louder, especially with a highly paid above-average hitter wasting away on the IL.
Fever- Id prefer it were part of a proactive plan and not some reactive cobbling things together.
And i really wish it werent midseason. I dont like bouncing him from dh to 1b right when hes finally adjusted… and whats worse, what if devers likes being on the diamond but stinks at 1b? What happens if you kick him off a second position in 3 months?
GaSox – Like I said earlier it’s certainly not an ideal situation, but that’s how the Red Sox operate …. they never have a plan, they never think things through.
Remember what Ortiz told Devers, how the Red Sox always wait until they are forced to do something at the last minute.
I don’t think we can read Raffy’s mind at this point. We have no idea if he wants to play first base, although he does prefer being on the field. I don’t think he’d get upset if a tryout at first base doesn’t go well, it’s nowhere near the same as him being forced off the only position he’s played for 11 years.
Grissom has been playing some 1B and is hitting very well. Bats right, but might be the immediate move while they figure out if Devers or even Mayer can handle 1B longer term.
Mayer isn’t going to 1B. Grissom should get the call.
Not gonna happen. Grissom’s D at 1B is pretty bad.
His D at short is bad. I haven’t seen any reports of Grissom being bad at 1b.
Grissom D has been pretty bad anywhere he tried whe. I watched him with the braves and gwinnett. That said, they were small samples.
He only started playing 1B this season. I’ll cut him some slack until I see otherwise.
Gotta be Grissom until they sort things out.
Sounds like they should deal for Andrew Vaughn. Please.
Welcome to the show Roman Anthony!!! Get well soon Triston.
pick up yuli gurriel off waivers from padres hes a solid 1st base can still hit too
Not the worst idea. I think they have more reasons to look internally for a temporary 1B tho.
No, he can’t really hit much at this stage.
Can still hit? Nahhhh.
The Red Sox have a numbers crunch and way too many players available.
They definitely won’t pick up someone from the outside unless it’s a super stud who falls in their lap. Too many in-house options.
Gary – I think you’re wrong on this one. Cora is very stubborn and always gets his way.
So you think Gurriel shows up or just another guy from the outside to plug a hole temporarily?
Red Sox’s Nick Johnson
Weird play. France gave him 95% of the bag and he went for the only bit that was covered. Was he just trying to disrupt the throw? Hope for a speedy recovery nonetheless.
Hard to say in real time, but, trying to beat the throw his stride was such that his right foot needed to hit the bag. Not wanting to risk an ankle issue with the rh side rolling or something he hit the back square with the right foot, leaving the left to trail thorough and get tripped up
Not hard to say. Casas ran inside the line to try and block the throwing lane. Right foot landed fine, but he was so far inside he had to try and lift the left leg/foot to avoid a collision with France, who gave Casas every bit of space he could. It was bush league by Casas, who couldn’t clear France’s leg, and then tripped forward as Casas’s left foot contacted France’s shin and as Casas fell forward, he landed on his left knee.
Probably a PCL issue. Hopefully, just a minor sprain and not torn badly. If I were to wager, he’ll be back in 2-3 weeks.
I think you’re 0-2. It wasn’t “bush league” and he won’t be back that fast.
Runners are supposed to run between the fielders to cut off the throwing lane. It’s been that way since I invented the game in 1860.
Man joe, youve put in some serious years…
How old were you in 1860 when you pulled that off? And, you just reinforced the need for a mustang… you had one 165 years ago, you should now
jd – “Weird” and Casas go hand-in-hand.
I’m not trying to insult him, he acknowledges being weird and enjoys it.
Fever, if the sox dont work out for Casas hed fit right in on the savannah bananas
GaSox – Does Bill Lee still appear with the Bananas sometimes? Him and Casas would bond rather quickly.
Speaking of bananas, the new City Connects are supposed to debut this month.
Not sure. Youd think with me living just outside savannah these days id take advangage of the reserved local ticket lotteries for them, but, ive never actually gone to a performance. My.gut instinct was its a perversion of baseball, just never really gave it a chance
GaSox – Yeah I’d see them only if an ex-MLB player that interested me was playing.
Otherwise they are just the baseball version of the Globetrotters.
I used to always get a hotel in Savannah on my 21-hour drive down I-95, always wanted to visit the Marshall House. Lots of good haunted places in the city.
What about giving Blaze Jordan a cup of coffee? He’s most likely a career minor leaguer but sometimes a couple games with the big league club can re-light the fire and motivate a guy knowing he’s not been forgotten. He’s got big league power. Not much else. And if he goes 3-20 we wouldn’t have lost all that much had Casas still been there. Need a temp fix, why not give a lesser hyped prospect a reason to impress?
The same Blaze Jordan that has a sub .700 ops in AA? That guy has big league power? Hes just a fatty.
Yep same guy. Ive got nothing but love for guys headed towards being career minor leaguers and like to see them at least get a shot. He’s got power. But thats about it.
He hasn’t played above AA and he hasn’t shown enough to justify being fast tracked liked that.
Devers is a baseball player.He should be able to handle any position.Great players should be flexible.
I have no doubt Devers could be equally poor at any position.
So by that logic Devers should be closing games too.
Acell, how many wild pitches do you think thatd generate per inning?
Perish the thought.
I think they’ll fill it internally. Toro has earned a shot. He’s carried a good spring through the season. A Romy/Wong platoon is also fine.
It’s not like the offense as a whole is losing any production so whoever they choose is a likely improvement. Bummed for Casas, but its not really a huge hit to the team.
I was thinking Toro also. I bet he gets the call up.
My first choice would be to move Story to 1B and put Mayer at SS. Option 2 is Grissom.
Mayer is injured
Mayer started at SS tonight.
Suit – wasn’t aware he got a start tonight. Just knew the back as acting up again and he had been scratched.
Wonder if he’s playing through something or if the light treatment sorted it out
He was scratched from one game. That’s far from being injured.
Chicken – GaSox is right, Mayer has had chronic back issues for years.
Assuming the injury went away after just one missed game is silly.
Call up Pittsburgh and ask about henry Davis. They might want to start thinking about recouping some of their investment.
Recouping what for a totally failed prospect?
I have no idea what the return would be. It wouldn’t be a premium prospect, but it’ll be a lot more than lottery tickets. He was still in the top-5, even if Pitt reached so they could spread out the money. And his minor league stats indicate that he should be a hitter.
Yasmani Grandal is going to be the answer to who is going to replace Casas for now Devers is a DH thats what Cora has said
don’t know the extent of the injury and hope it doesn’t seriously impact his career but freak plays like this are why i would advise young players to sign extensions when they are offered
Has Anthony ever played 1st base?
They’ve already explicitly stated that Anthony is not moving to 1B.
Anthony has never played any infield position in his entire professional & high school career. Strictly OF and DH.
It was an odd injury… he lunged with his right leg but grabbed his left knee when on the ground. I wonder if the lunge put too much pressure on the left knee and he popped the quad or patella tendon. Not sure if it’s ACL. Tough for a promising young athlete. Hopefully he isn’t out for long.
If you watch the slow motion his left foot hits the bag then bends awkwardly when he trips over the defenders leg.
Yeah. There was a quick fire twist. Not the acl is probably the best result.
I watched the replay and it seems like his left knee gave out before he hit the bag. He tripped over the first baseman because he could not bend his knee to get his foot out of the way.
Refsnyder has played first before and Grissom could probably handle it. Along with romy and Wong, that should suffice. I would actually call up grandal and start Wong at first most nights. Narvaez was going to play more anyway.
Seems like every day now there are 3 injuries around baseball from either a team’s starting nine or starting rotation. Game of attrition. My Mariners are now missing four of their opening day starters and their #1 and #2 starting pitcher.
One of the astonishing story lines this off season has involved first base and Devers. You have arguably one of the worst third baseman in recent years losing his job to a gold glover. That made total sense. Even though Yoshida has no value in the outfield and is slated to be a DH, the Red Sox hinted about making their outfield worse by slotting Yoshida into left field, and making a player in his mid 20’s a DH. Devers took reps at third, and no reps at first during the off season.
The assumption by the team was that Casas would finally hit and be the everyday first baseman. A fine hope, but not a guarantee. I am not second guessing whether the Red Sox should have taken a flamethrower to Devers mitt for third baseman, but I was shocked to see them not give him the reps at first when you had three top prospects pre-season in the wings and the odd men out clearly Yoshida, Casas, and Abreu to create space for them.
The idea, you would have thought, would be to get more production out of that positional batting slot, and create a long term alternative if the need to either move Casas occurred, or any unforeseen injury happened. There are several dozen available DH’s, and a very thin stable of first baseman. The lack of foresight didn’t make sense.
william-2
The assumption by the team was that Casas would finally hit
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I’m not sure what you mean by “finally”.
Casas has a career 118 OPS+. His hitting was never in doubt.
The track record isn’t as long as you make it out to be.
I wish I could remember that guy who was a DH at the same age as Devers?
simonkiller
The track record isn’t as long as you make it out to be.
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I never mentioned how long his track record is. He hit in college, was a 1st round pick, hit in every level of the minor leagues, was a top-30 prospect, and has hit very well in the majors.
No one in the world had any doubt that he would hit.
Jackie Bradley raked in college and was considered a batting title type hitter coming up through the minors. Not so much in the pros. Nothing is guaranteed.
To think Casas was a guarantee is folly. I like him, but he has flaws, and they are big. No speed, pedestrian mitt, and just doesn’t have the contact skills needed to be an elite power guy, let alone make productive outs when needed.
He was projected to be a very solid OBP hitter with potential elite power. We are getting close to the bottom evaluation level production from him. That is fine if you have the patience to wait for him to click and become something greater. That is not a knock, it is reality. He simply has not shown the ability to give consistent productive at bats, and the great players tend to figure out ways to get productive at bats out of outs. That tends to be a marriage of mind set, and ability. I just don’t know which is missing yet, but one or both is.
At a minimum of 850 PAs, since 2023, Casas ranks #37 out of 189 qualified batters in wOBA, according to Fangraphs. FG projects him to have a .340 wOBA and a 116 wRC+.
He can hit. This isn’t an issue. It’s not even a discussion. It’s more like a history lesson.
william – Great post! Looking at the situation logically, why would Cora – a guy who has insisted on forcing more players to learn new positions than any other Sox manager – not do the same with Devers at first base?
Devers could have played first base in the WBC, but Cora refused.
Devers could have played first base last year when his shoulder was hurting, but Cora refused.
And now once again Cora is refusing, even after Breslow publicly stated it was a possibility.
What’s especially fishy is that Cora refuses to give a reason.
As for Yoshida, there’s a reason why Cora stated he wanted him to play a lot of outfield. It allows them to keep him on the IL. That’s because you can’t IL a player for an injury that doesn’t impact his primary duties. So calling him an outfielder allowed him to start the season on the IL, unlike last season when he was officially the primary DH and therefore couldn’t be placed on the IL for an injury that impacted his throwing.
There’s always ulterior motives when it comes to Cora The Snake.
How about Andrew Vaughn from the White Sox?
Would be great for the other Sox. Addition by subtraction. Call Uncle Jerry a six pack will do the job. Will even send a Chicago style deep dish with Vaughn.
I actually like that. With only 1+ seasons of control left, he shouldn’t cost anything. He has an OPS+ that borders 100. Has hit decently at the Fens.
He only had 7 ABs above high-A, so the WS gave him virtually no development time. He could work out.
Let Devers and yoshi battle it out for first base job.
They’ve been claiming that Yoshida has been injured all year. If he suddenly makes a miraculous recovery then they will be investigated for IL manipulation.
rmull – Yoshida has been perfectly healthy except for the ability to make long throws from the outfield. It’s been public knowledge since Spring Training, so not sure where you’re coming from with the conspiracy theory.
However they DO seem to be intentionally dragging out his throwing arm rehab for obvious reasons.
How about Andrew Vaughn for a couple torpedo bats!?
Where’s Dominic Smith?
Casas sucks. This will wind up being a good thing for the BoSox.
Let’s get Devers a 1st baseman mitt,and start practicing. I would think that even a mediocre 3rd baseman could play an adequate 1st base . Be nice if Devers went to Cora with this suggestion himself.
cdc – How do you know Devers didn’t already? He prefers fielding between plate appearances.
But the thing is, Cora never allowed him to even try …. not in pregame practice, not in spring training, not even in the WBC when the Dominican manager wanted Devers at first base.
Cora is just being a jackass as usual.
Want to see Devers go to Cora and offer his services at 1st base. What would happen if (God forbid ) Bregman went down long term? Probably call up Mayer,but you could put your starting 3rd baseman of the previous 8 or so years back there. Is he taking any infield practice at all ?? Also many slugging 1st basemen are former slugging 3rd basemen.
Devers would seem the obvious choice, with Grissom as the likely #2…
It’s odd they haven’t given Devers time at first, it wold get Yoshida’s bat in there at DH< and that's obviously their best lineup with Casas out.
Move Story over to first and bring in Marcello
Once he comes off the disabled list Cincinnati would pay you to take Jeimer Candelario off their hands. Or if there’s a bad contract swap to be done
The Reds need OF help. So Yoshida for Candelario could actually make sense. But Cincy would demand enough cash from the Sox to at least even out the cost.
Call the Phillies about Alec Bohm and offer a solid reliever.
How about tomato pie from Corropelese?
Assuming Casas is probably out for the year, the most realistic options are Toro at first or move Devers there and eventually get Yoshida back as the DH. Romy has played well, but with him you get Carlos Quintana vibes, meaning a first baseman with no power.
So if devers plays first now yoshida makes a miraculous recovery I assume to play DH tomorrow.
The Red Sox will presumably provide more specifics on the injury and treatment plan in the coming days.
Maybe Hogsbreath will let the Atlantic know.
Another guy with a ridunculous BMI gets injured?
He’s heavy, but he is not ridiculous. More like Vlad.
His BMI is almost 30. Creates unnecessary stress on the parts of the body that remain essentially fixed regardless of muscle mass.
I agree 100% that he should be in better shape. But BMI is not a great measure of fatness. He’s heavy, but I’m guessing in the range of 20 pounds.
Regardlesd of weight being muscle or fat, it still stresses joints, cartiledge, and tendons/ligaments. Those dont care what type of weight it is. Biology only makes them.so strong
BMI isn’t the be all end all. Half the NBA probably has a BMI of 30 but BMI doesn’t take muscle mass into account
If anything, muscle mass increases the chance of injury.
The NBA is a contact sport so size matters, just like in the NFL.
You see big guys in rugby but not in soccer.
like anything muscle and BMI depend on the athlete and sport.
If MLB would extend the lineup to 11 and allow for 3 DH’s, the Red Sox would dominate.
I don’t think it would hurt to let Devers Play some 1st, I think he would be fine and one of his biggest problems was throwing errors and that shouldn’t be an issue at first. Grissom should also get a chance and if they need to make a trade at or around dead line then there is that. Casas has struggled, but the potential was there for a big season……bummer
One silver lining, but not too much, is that he wasn’t producing so they don’t have too much hitting to replace. The flip side is that he would have probably started to hit soon enough. It’s a loss but one I think they can absorb.
this past week he was hitting much better and seemed to be coming around.
AK – There’s a whole bunch of people, from media to analysts to former and current players, who strongly believe Devers would do well at first base. Loumer and Youk speak from experience, they want Devers at first base.
But Cora is on his usual power trip and loves doing the opposite of what Breslow and others want. So Breslow will likely pursue an external option.
Looks like they decided on Toro, he just got called up….
He’ll keep the grass nice and short in front of him.
Teams need to coach out players from lunging at the base. It is rarely if ever faster and players often get injured doing it. Just run through the base, either you are out or safe.