Garrett Crochet has been diagnosed with a low-grade lat strain, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy told the Boston beat after tonight’s loss to Baltimore (relayed by Christopher Smith of MassLive). Last year’s AL Cy Young runner-up went for an MRI after reporting lingering shoulder tightness over the weekend.
A low-grade strain is relatively encouraging news all things considered, though it’ll obviously delay Crochet’s return to action. Tracy said he’ll resume a throwing program once he’s asymptomatic. The two-time All-Star has been out of action since April 26 due to shoulder inflammation. He has been limited to six starts on the season and carries a 6.30 ERA, mostly due to a nightmare outing against the Twins on April 13.
Crochet has been on the 15-day injured list but stands as a candidate for a 60-day IL transfer if the Sox need a 40-man roster spot. That’d backdate to his original IL date, so 38 days have already elapsed. It’s unlikely he’ll be ready for MLB action within the next three weeks even if this proves a brief shutdown.
The Sox have five starters on the injured list. Tanner Houck, Kutter Crawford and Patrick Sandoval all began the season on the IL; Johan Oviedo joined them there after one appearance. Tracy told reporters (including Gabrielle Starr of The Boston Herald) that Sandoval will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Worcester this week. Crawford, meanwhile, is being pulled back slightly after yet another bout of forearm tightness. Neither player has pitched in an MLB game since 2024, with Sandoval still awaiting his team debut.
Meanwhile, shortstop Trevor Story discussed his rehab process from last week’s sports hernia surgery with Ian Browne of MLB.com. The veteran infielder floated an 8-12 week recovery timeline, a little longer than the initial 6-10 week estimate. Marcelo Mayer has moved to shortstop since the injury, leaving second base to utility types Isiah Kiner-Falefa and Nick Sogard.
Just throw the towel in on the 26’ season.
Nope. They are still only 3 games out of a Wild Card spot in the loss column.
I don’t care if they squeak into the postseason with a .489 record. They’re still a loosing team and should be strategizing for next year not this year.
Exactly! This team doesn’t have anything in place to make a run in the playoffs anyway – they by make it when all it will do is give Henry and Co. a little more money that they won’t spend on this team (while justifying their crappy business model and continuing to ruin Red Sox fandom).
dr – As we all know, the Sox are 4 games out of the Wild Card but would have to climb past SIX teams to get into the postseason.
Sure the odds are long, but what would throwing in the towel now entail?
It’s not like they have a bunch of prospects fighting for a roster spot. The only position player would be Arias and he’s not quite ready yet.
I can see your point about possibly trading players for salary relief to get under the 2nd CBT threshold, which the Red Sox have stated they desperately want to do, but with Breslow being publicly bashed by ownership it’s unlikely they want him in charge of a selloff.
The most prudent approach would be to wait until the trade deadline before doing anything, by then buyers will be clearly identified and strongly motivated.
Breslow was not publicly bashed by ownership. No one said they are desperate to reduce payroll. You are hallucinating again.
Suit, et. al – There’s no towel to throw in. This is the team. There are a small handful of arms that could move, but, for the most part they have to run this bunch out until Sept.
Two days ago, Theo Epstein (who is part owner of the team) said that Brelow, and his approach, were “disappointing”….not exactly a ringing endorsement. At the Cora press conf. Kennedy threw Breslow under the bus by saying the decision to fire Cora “was his”. They are seperating themselves from Breslow.
Sad: Post the quote from Theo Epstein. I don’t think you can. Saying that Cora being fired by Breslow is just saying the truth and Breslow should have that authority if he is the head of baseball operations.
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Suit- On the Cora firing, you’re right. the POBO should fire the Coach. That said, you know that Breslow ran it by Kennedy first. Even if Kennedy didnt bless the move, i found it funny that Kennedy would go out of his way to throw Breslow under the bus and present a fracture in the Front Office management at that particular moment.
Just one guy’s take……
Sad: There are no quotes in any of those from Theo Epstein about Breslow. Claims from anonymous sources can’t be trusted. It should be obvious why they can’t be trusted. Anyone can make up anything as an anonymous source.
Sad: You are turning firing a manager into a “front office fracture”?
I wouldn’t say that the Boston Globe’s Tim Healey is an anonymous source, but ok….fair point
Suit – No, thats what you were saying.
Your point was that perhaps Breslow acted alone in his capacity as POBO.
If Kennedy said it wasnt a Front Office decision, it was Breslow’s, then I would assume that others didnt agree with Breslow.
So yes, that is the definition of a fracture.
Sad: You assume and you could be wrong.
Suit – apparently, I am the only person on MLBTR that can ever admit that yes (gasp!) they could be wrong…..yes, i certainly could be.
But, you cant say with a straight face that Henry, Kennedy, Romero, Ferreira were all lock step with firing Cora. And, the fact that Kennedy made it clear by CORRECTING Breslow as he was saying it was a team decision, to point out that it was HIS decision, mean exactly that
Sad: All it means is Breslow has the authority to make the decision. Members of a team don’t always agree. That doesn’t mean there is a “fracture”. What does a “fracture” even mean?
well, not to continue the beat this dead horse, but, in any walk of life when there is a split management team, and all are not pulling in the same direction, those internal battles dont get forgotten, they continue to play out in a myriad different circumstances. Usually it the workers, producers, (in this case) players that suffer the brunt of those managers punching over their heads.
No matter how you slice it…it aint good, is what that means
Sad: Management teams and workplace teams are not going to always unanimously agree on things. That is pretty typical in my experience. The boss has the final say. People that are big enough problems will leave or be fired.
Maybe Theo would appointment himself gm, or see if he could trade for Jed Hoyer of the Cubs.
I hope you don’t encourage medical students or interns with that ideology . It’s early June ! That’s 3 months and lots of ball to play . Last season they over performed, this slightly under – but streaks, form and luck can turn a season around over 2 week stretch let alone 90 days !
French – so, you think there is a 17 out of 20 streak in this team? With no offense, and no Crochet?
They are who they are.
Overpay
I know right? They can’t even afford a high grade strain. Sheesh.
Dumpster – Overpay is Breslow’s middle name!
Who in the history of baseball has overpaid more than Breslow in terms of trading talent and giving contracts? Nobody.
Well at least you guys didnt trade for Louis Robert. Hope Garrett makes a full recovery
Divin – If he doesn’t, there could be yet another similarity between Sale and Crochet …. both signed to massive extensions that turned into disasters.
The big difference is the players Breslow traded are far more likely to become impact MLB players than the players Dave traded.
Hindsight: Kopech and Moncada when healthy, cohtributed to some fun and winning baseball for the White Sox- admittedly a very short window but 2 years is still playoff baseball. And the Kopech trade netted Miguel Vargas from the Dodgers. Win/win given the Red Sox world series title with Sale. As long as Breslow doesn’t sell low on Crochet and send him to the Braves…
Breslow is not overpaying for Devers or Bregman. That would be about $59M per year in wasted money on the books. They will have a lot of financial flexibility when the Yoshida and Story contracts are off the books next year.
Suit – I dont understand why everyone worries about John Henry’s money!?!?!!?
Are you telling me that this version of the Red Sox are better off without Devers, Bregman, Schwarber or Alonso than they would be with them?
Hitting is contagious….having men on base, having a thumper threatening from the on-deck circle, hitting the ball off the wall consistently in Fenway Park are all good things.
By the way, if you’re saving all this money for FSG…..who are you gonna spend it on if free agents dont help?????
Moreover, I have said this a million times, if you win the World Series, that contract pays itself off in the out years regardless of performance.
AND…….Devers 2026 salary is now the 28th highest in mlb, you’re telling me that’s too much for the Boston F’ing Red Sox to absorb?????? Give me a break
Sad: I am not worried about John Henry’s money, but he is. If the Red Sox take on a bad contract such as Yoshida or Story, John Henry will not eat it and move on (they might eat some in tbe final year of the contract like they did with Sale, but that is not much). So, I am happy that Breslow is being responsible with John Henry’s money and dumped the Devers contract and avoided the Bregman contract. No, the Red Sox would not be better with Devers or Bregman. Alonso is looking pretty good lately, but why did the Mets who know him the best also not want to sign him to a 5 year contract?
Suit – well, rational people can agree to disagree…..
Let’s take passion out of the equation. If the Blue Jays win a World Series this year or next, do you think they will care about a chubby Vlad Jr. in 9 years, or a dead-armed Dylan Cease in 6 years?
I believe that either the new CBA will right the ship, or, the Blue Jays will have made so much money off of that Championship that it will effectively negate the Out-Years on those contracts, or, those contracts will be annually surpassed in dollars that Vlad and Cease (and Devers et al) will be move so far down the list that they will be non-detrimental
Everyone was ready to leave Devers for dead and dance on his grave about a month ago, but look who has quietly gotten his OPS+ up to 110. Having him as everyday DH over Yoshida and his whopping 10 RBIs would be a pretty substantial upgrade.
Dirty – Agreed!
Yoshida was never supposed to be the everyday DH. He’s playing because Anthony is out.
If only one of their outfielders was capable of playing another position, like let’s say second base, so Anthony could play left field and the DH spot would be open for a legitimate slugger, right? If only…
Agreed, but that has nothing to do with comparing Devers to Yoshida
Dirty – It’s amazing how everyone now realizes Raffy wasn’t the problem last year, it was Breslow who was the problem.
I always said, Raffy had a spotless reputation for 15 years …. Breslow established a bad reputation within about 6 months.
Dirty – My understanding is Rafaela was asked to move and he refused, but Cora protected his BFF by benching Duran instead.
Ridiculous how poorly the Red Sox are run.
FPG- You know I supported Devers all throughout, and still do.
Regardless, I think people know what FSG really is now. Just ask a Liverpool supporter or a Penquin fan.
Raffy has a lower OPS than Connor Wong, as well as Nick Sogard and Mickey Gaspar and he’s on a 313 Million dollar contract.
If he was here everyone would be talking about how awful he is.
Its impossible to say that “if he were here” what he would be doing.
Even today, if you polled every mlb pitcher and asked, “game on the line, who would you least want to pitch to, Devers, Wong or Gaspar, 100% of them would say Devers” enough with the foolishness
And, if you asked Gerit Cole he’d say, “i’d just wave four fingers toward first base”.
sad – I agree, the Raffy situation was a travesty and the baseball world took note. Players don’t want to play for a front office like the Red Sox who treats their franchise players like that, not unless the Sox are willing to massively overpay.
sad – Without question Raffy is a beloved former Sox superstar just like Mookie, Sale, Xander, etc.
Once he’s healthy, he will return to form. And he’ll get better at first base, just like Vlad did.
BTW – Epperson standing in the middle of the diamond waving the runner in? Dude is clueless. 11th Sox runner thrown out at the plate.
“Who in the history of baseball has overpaid more than Breslow in terms of trading talent and giving contracts? Nobody.”
How much research did you do before posting this ridiculous piece of hyperbole?
Why would you need drohan or Harrison when you have such mercurial talents like Sandoval, Crawford, and Houck waiting in the wings?
Boop – Breslow is getting bashed from all directions. Took some people a while, but Red Sox Nation now realizes he is even more awful than Bloom was.
“One organization says, “No sinkers because it’s not what we want you to do”, but the new org that traded for him says “98 mph sinkers, absolutely!!!” “You go be you and we trust you!”@HunterD
“People behind computers make those decisions. The coaching staff is literally working with one hand tied behind their backs. Driveline is the answer to everything, but winning games! Ask yourself, why are so many of our guys always injured(pitchers and position players), it’s not by pure bad luck. Pitchers are having constant issues and hitters are always hurting hands and wrist. It’s not a league wide problem. It has to be fixed or we’ll never win because half of our starters will always be on the IL.” —- Lance Dobbins
luckily breslow’s warmth and people skills make up for his inability to evaluate talent
dasit – Thank you, I needed that! LOL!
It’s absolute tunnel-vision by Henry to not value people skills in a CBO position.
With every office job in the world, how you interact with people is just as critical as job knowledge, etc.
Injuries are on the increase simply because the demands have increased over time and is the same all over professional sports – be it Athletics, soccer and yes baseball. Velocity is up because It gets people out , but at the same time adds far more stress because it’s not natural to continually throw at 160 kph. Ditto with running , fielding or hitting . Why balls fly further and plays made now that 20/30 years ago were singles … and doubles used to be singles. Physical health is pushed , but playing daily at the limit creates injuries
French – Dobbins seems to be correct about the hands/wrists injuries. Last year Mayer needed surgery for a ligament tear and this year Roman is dealing with a ligament tear.
If I can find MLB-wide data on these injuries that prove or disprove whether it’s an MLB-wide problem I’ll share it here.
You think two wrist injuries out of all the players that have been on the Red Sox proves something? It doesn’t look like it to me.
FPG – SPOT ON!!!!!! Driveline is killing this organization. Breslow is trying to create an army of baseball robots (just like him lol)
Sad – Just yesterday they announced another Driveline INTERN has been hired as a Red Sox Hitting Instructor.
I feel so bad for the Sox hitters, especially the younger ones that don’t have the experience or guts to wave away the Driveline guys.
FPG – NO ONE is allowed to wave off a Driveline employee, remember when Jim Rice tried……he was reprimanded, not the laptop toting nerd
Sad – Actually it was the Driveline employee who waved off Jim Rice after a young player asked Rice for hitting advice. The Driveline employee overheard as he was passing by and interrupted them. Total arrogance by the Driveline guy.
The Red Sox pitching is doing good. The offense could be more consistent, but is showing signs of life.
when crochet gets healthy the rotation could be great (i love watching tolle) but if the plan was to pivot to “run prevention” after blowing it with bregman then the bullpen needed to be better. i’m actually a durbin fan as i followed him as a yankee prospect but right now trading him for harrison is looking rough. tibbs for 2 months of dustin may could also turn out badly. dan duquette had no people skills but he completely rebuilt the organization and handed it off to theo in great shape. not sure what breslow is doing besides alienating what’s left of the scouting department
Durbin is starting to hit and has a 5 game hitting streak. I was never high on Tibbs. Looks like he may strike out too much.
May should about be back to form in a month or two given the recovery timeline
i believe durbin will have a nice career as a league average hitter and plus defender. wish we’d kept him
Nice job, Breslow
Blow it up and start over. No one in their right mind sees things the way they are GM, Manager, most of the Players moving forward outside of some pitchers who could be great.
So abandonning is the solution ? That’s not how you actually win. Especially with 3 months left to play. Firstly , blow it up ? That means trading players but who ? Most are in their prime years (be it Durran, Mayer or Crochet) so you would get rid of the *building blocks* for future talent . Or do you mean trade old veterans ? That would be Yoshida (tried to do that for 18 months and 0 takers) or an injured Story ? Which would bring back a 19-20 year old 30th rated prospect .
Really not much to blow up – only real Tradeable but brings something real back would be Chapman or Gray and even then the return would underwhelming.
As I said surrender now is madness it’s not as if they’re 2-50 or the Tockies of last year !
Start by blowing up the lousy management that put them in this position.
Fans waited literally years for these wunder kids to be brought up.
Now they are here, so what happened?
Building blocks, come on that is a joke
Ill wake up soon and itll be 2021 again
Get well soon, Garrett.
YBC – Looking forward to this weekend’s series!
How did the Yanks manage to have only 11 games against non-losing teams?
3-8 record against them makes me think the Yanks aren’t as good as their overall record indicates.
Sunday’s game will be particularly interesting with Cam vs Early.
If the ship doesn’t right itself you try to move Story and his one year remaining on his contract. You move Contreras and Gray. Run with the kids to see what you have. This ownership needs to get back to what it did when it first took over. It needs to spend money and trade prospects for corner stone guys. You have to wonder how much Larry Lucchino, Theo and their made the ownership look good when they were in power. You have the same owners but results I haven’t seen since the early 90’s.
Disagree on moving Contreras, although I understand the logic behind it. But there isn’t anyone knocking on the door at first base that he’s blocking, and he brings the type of steady veteran presence that the young guys need to have. Wouldn’t make it a priority to shop him unless somebody really desperate comes calling with an offer that absolutely blows you away, but I doubt that actually happens.
There isn’t anyone knocking on the door at first base that he’s blocking
Contreras has a career OPS of .815
Casas has a career OPS of .800
When Casas is healthy it makes more sense to get what you can for Contreras, and let Casas play considering this season is totally fooked
Triston Casas isn’t even able to swing a bat right now, but sure by all means hold your breath until “when Casas is healthy” happens and let me know how that goes for ya.
Breslow is creepily sitting in his office with his best Monty Burns impression saying, “Excellent…”
As long as Anthony and Crochet stay on the IL he has a built in excuse to say his strategy isnt working because they were injured.
I wouldnt give him any quarter for the injuries, but, there will be people here who say exactly that…..
Yes, it’s so creepy how Breslow sits in his office.
Incredibly creepy, even.
Sad – Now that Cora is gone, Breslow has nobody to scapegoat.
It’s hilarious Henry is now throwing Breslow under the bus.
All three – Cora, Breslow, Henry – are responsible for this epic franchise collapse.
FPG – this is definitely a team-effort failure!
What do you make of IKF’s sound bite last night when asked about why he thinks the team has struggled so bad at Fenway: “on the road we are a tight knit small group…..when we’re here (Fenway) theres a lot of people we dont know, around this are (the clubhouse)”
Shouldnt they know people at their home clubhouse? To me, it sounds like the nerds are meddling….what do you make of that?
That doesn’t sound great
Sad – By process of elimination, yes I believe members of the 350-person analytics department are leaving their office and speaking to the players. Not sure if it’s on an individual basis or as a team meeting, but I can’t think of anything else. The coaches/instructors travel with the team, so it can’t be them.
Unless they allow entourage types in the clubhouse at home
This team is unwatchable. The only offense comes when they string multiple singles together. Death by a thousand paper cuts is not a viable offensive strategy. I’m not “done” done, but it’s just ridiculous that they look so bad every night. Just helpless.
They can’t seem to hit at home so far for some reason. It’s very strange. Mayer hit the ball well 3 times last night with nothing to show.
Suit – what do you make of IKF’s quote about “people we dont know in the clubhouse”?
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Sad: Good question. IKF doesn’t say how the people are being a problem.
swan – It’s very simple, they are simply not using Fenway to their advantage.
LHB are not going oppo to drive balls off the wall, and RHB aren’t putting the ball in the air.
Blame can be placed either on the coaching/Driveline, or on Breslow for putting together a defense-first lineup despite playing in one of the most hitter-friendly parks in MLB.
It’s probably a combination of both.
Too much emphasis (and $ wasted) on trying to get the human beings (with different personalities and skill sets) to fit into the cookie cutter analytical approach.
BUT, BUT the numbers say OUR plan SHOULD work cause after we’re all geniuses. Hubris
A game played by humans has too many variables that are not included in the analytic algorithms.
Let’s call them intangibles.
Let’s just add AI magic you say. That’ll solve everything!
Fielding an ALL Star team with “deep depth” is probably a good strategy except most teams can’t afford to be LAD
Ghost – FINALLY……I thought i was the only person here who didnt approve of the robot baseball players that Breslow, et al, espouse.
I know this is a baseball site, but the Cleveland Cavs coach got fired after hi playoff loss because he said “the analytics tell us we really won those games”.
Analytics is a useful tool, no doubt. But sports are played by humans who react differently during competition and in circumstances that we used to call pressure (I dont think you can say that anymore lol), I want players with “heart” and “toughness” and “character” and I want “playoff players” regardless of their rOBA
Why are Kike Hernandez and Miquel Rojas World Series Champions??? Because they got “it”, and you cant put that on a spreadsheet
Trevor Story to 60 day IL, not Garrett Crochet as the article suggests. Come on MLBTR, get your facts straight before reporting hearsay or speculation.