Righty knuckleballer Steven Wright is meeting with the Red Sox today to consider potentially season-ending surgery on his injured left knee, Evan Drellich of CSNNE.com writes. Wright has visited a knee specialist, but has not yet reached a decision about his path forward.
The Red Sox placed Wright on the 10-day DL with a knee sprain earlier this week, and the team is set to purchase the contract of Kyle Kendrick tomorrow to fill out its rotation. Wright’s terrific 2016 season was cut short due to bursitis in his shoulder, and as he completed his recovery from that injury in Spring Training, it emerged that he had been wearing a knee brace to deal with soreness in that area.
Wright began the 2017 season in the Red Sox’ rotation, but struggled in five starts spanning 24 innings, posting an 8.25 ERA, 4.9 K/9 and 1.9 BB/9. If Wright were to return to health and effectiveness, it would be a boon to a Red Sox rotation that has already dealt with injuries to David Price and Drew Pomeranz in addition to Wright. Of course, today’s news would seem to indicate it’s unlikely Wright will be able to make a quick recovery.
So many pitching injuries already this year
Only the dodgers deal with this issue the next.
The best **
The angels do their fair share also
The bad sox double his innings pitched year over year and then there isn’t a problem the next year????
Knuckle baller- very different kind of pitcher.
Exactly, they can pitch forever. Only throw like 85 at the hardest. Whole reason why R.A. Has been pitching this long.
They shouldn’t have traded Clay for nothing
Specifically, he’s going to miss the rest of the season. So…
Clay was traded to reset the luxury tax threshold/penalties for the coming seasons.
Clay is hurt too. Out 4-6 months. And oh by the way – he sucks.
Lol
Why not trade Clay. You either pay him and have a bad pitcher on your team, or you just pay him.
John Farrell changed Wright’s luck from good to bad. Any takers on firing Farrell? I’ll use any excuse. Looking forward to the post Farrell era in Boston.
Get off Farrell’s back He caused the shoulder injury not the knee one
Still a pretty bad manager
Nowhere near as bad as some sox fans say he is
Which is still bad enough.
JDGoat understands, he had to watch Farrell attempt to manage in Toronto – frustrating. Farrell is seriously overrated. The same problems Farrell’s Jays teams demonstrated (inconsistent fundamentals and a general lack of leadership) are entirely visible in Boston. I genuinely don’t understand the appeal of John Farrell.
Colon, Dickey, Garcia..take your pick! Wisler, Allard, Newcomb…take your pick!
Dickey because he is a knuckleballer!
What’s this…?
A pitcher consulting with his team when considering how to treat an injury ?!?
Shocking !
He apparently isn’t as “in tune” with his body as some others.
I’ve never seen a knuckleballer with this many injuries. Was Wakefield this injury prone?
Well, since it’s a knee issue what does that have to do with the fact he’s a knuckler?
Try Wakefield’s bad back the last 10y of his career. Outside of that forcing him to miss various starts.. Go onto the DL now and then?
This is so not the Sox year. Ugh.
It’s may.
Its may with wright likely out the season, pom having never pitched a full season, and the huge question mark over price moving forward this year. Like I said, its not been a good year.
And the number of things going wrong proves that.
It’s May. Hang on, we had great pitching this week and the bats are starting to take warm up…..
Wonder if this has anything to do with last year’s base running where John Farrell substituted Big Papi with Steven Wright.
Couldn’t happen to a better manager who leads the league in headhunting orders
Farrell would never have the stones to make any headhunting demands. He’s too busy worrying about keeping everybody happy and being the squeaky clean leader that John Henry and the Sox corporation wants especially after leaving his wife for a local reporter.
This will clear a spot on the staff to find someone else to throw at people’s heads. A knuckleballer is no good for trying to injure players from other teams so this ought to make the Red Sox happy.
Only one guy threw anywhere near anyones head, and he was suspended for it.
The pitchers continuously going after Machado is pretty absurd imo, but theyre obviously sending a message about protecting their guys.
The Orioles and especially Machado are CRYBABIES
The Red Sox and especially Barnes and Sale are CRYBABIES. I hate both teams but Boston is acting ridiculous. There was no reason for sale to throw at machado which escalated the situation. If you think bundy threw at betts on purpose you don’t understand baseball. He doesn’t have good control and that was not a time that you hit a batter.
So its just a coincedence that after machado gets hit/thrown behind betts and bogaerts get hit? Sure it is
Both of those were obviously unintentional. How do Boston fans not understand this? Bogaerts was hit with a breaking ball ffs
I bet the Red Sox won’t be crybabies when they offer him 10 years 400 million
yes,somehow they unintentionally hit the two best hitters in the line up
That’s exactly what happened. If you don’t agree you’re just being a massive homer
Imagine a pitcher taking it upon himself to support his teammates. Ever play the game?
Rec league softball doesn’t count, dude.
Buck and the Orioles are known as a win at all costs team, so just because Machado tried to hold up Pedroia after spiking doesn’t mean it was a complete accident. I’m just surprised Machado didn’t get fined for sliding so late with his spikes up and he should just pipe down.
… the rant following the game that was peppered with swear words needs to be addressed, too. We’re all big boys and girls, but for the actual boys and girls watching/listening that sets a terrible example. I understand Manny’s frustration and, lord knows, I’ve more than once popped-off on a similar rant, but these guys need to be more careful. Further, the Orioles-Sox feud is extremely childish and already more than played-out.
As a diehard never miss a game oriole fan I couldn’t agree with you more. Although Manny has matured and told it down a lot he still has a ways to go and because he such a good player everything he does will be in the spotlight.
Not sure if you’ve actually watched the play. He slid on the ground and when he hit the bag it popped his feet up. What’s in it for him to try to hurt Pedroia who was at his wedding. These guys are friends away from the field so…….
I’ve seen the play and I don’t doubt that they are friends but it still looks like Machado slid hard and late like he was trying to slide through the bag and then he saw Pedroia standing on the bag and could slow down so he popped up and his momentum spiked him.
Sorry *couldn’t slow down
…just my opinion