The Red Sox struck a deal with the Angels today to acquire second baseman Ian Kinsler, and although that’s not a firm indicator that the injured Dustin Pedroia won’t make it back to the field, Christopher Smith of Masslive.com reports that the club doesn’t seem overly optimistic about the prospect of his return. “I can’t say we don’t expect him to return but we’re not anticipating that he’s going to be,” said Dave Dombrowski, the club’s president of baseball operations. Pedroia’s currently rehabbing back in Arizona, and has yet to make any significant contribution this season after undergoing offseason knee surgery.
A few more injury notes from around the league…
- The Cardinals have officially placed right-hander Carlos Martinez back on the disabled list with a right shoulder strain. Martinez owns a 3.41 ERA on the season, and ERA estimators like FIP (3.65) and xFIP (4.44) paint a slightly worse picture. That’s not the whole story though, as Martinez owns an ERA above 5 since returning from his first DL stint thanks to a lat strain.
- Likewise, the Braves have placed righty reliever Peter Moylan on the 10-day DL (with a right forearm strain) retroactive to Sunday. Moylan hasn’t looked quite like himself this season; usually a talented right-handed specialist, he’s been hit hard this season to the tune of a 4.45 ERA while walking an uncharacteristic 5.72 batters per nine innings.
- The Yankees sent newly-acquired starter J.A. Happ home on Tuesday after he reportedly contracted a “hand, foot and mouth disease”. The left-hander might not make his next scheduled start against the Red Sox. Happ was acquired by the Yankees just this past week in an effort by the club to shore up its rotation.
- Speaking of the Red Sox, Xander Bogaerts had a scare today. The Boston shortstop was hit by a pitch on the hand and collapsed to the ground in pain during tonight’s game, though thankfully exams found the injury to be only a hand contusion (source: Ian Browne, MLB.com). Bogaerts is hitting .275/.340/.512 on the season and already has 16 homers, putting him on pace to set a new career high.
Watch out for that hand foot and mouth y’all
Now the Lynn trade makes sense.
yep, all for one possible missed start, good call
Lance Lynn is a gamer in the play offs!! Back when the Cardinals were good, he was their most dependable starter. He won over 60% of the games he pitched for the Cardinals.
He won 60% of his decisions with the Cards, big difference from winning 60% of games he pitched.
There’s a 1-day DL now?
Probably a typo seeing that it was retroactive Sunday. Probably meant 13-Day DL
Think he meant 17-day DL
Clearly, since the 22 day DL was already full…lol.
1 day DL, retroactive to 2 days ago
Has Happ and Syndergard been golfing together?
They be is not has.
Good job
wat.
I took a 1 day dl day yesterday, journey and def leppard concert got me good sat nite
WTF no mouth, hand or foot condom for happ-y.
That’s not how you get that
You’re not trying hard enough
Understand it’s been beaten into the ground, but what a shame if Pedroia is just a defensive shell when he finally does come back. Red Sox announcer Jerry Remy’s injury in some ways the same. The slide at home plate which wrecked his knee and him finally coming back, he couldn’t move any longer in the field. The 2 finest 2b they have had IMO while watched games and same body part severely hurt.
Sometimes a dl stint is just: “Hey man, We as an organization respect you enough to say you have inflammation, but its time to get your s*** figured out before we publicly release you directly after a bad outing or your last few in a row..”
some players are actually injured, unlike you when you are hung over on your :”sick days”
Owed 58 million through 2028… he was a hell of a player but these contracts are getting out of control for old men… maybe they can get him to sit in a dunk tank in the stadium so we don’t have to hear about his dL stints until 2022…
Who are you talking about? Dustin Pedroia? He’s only owed $56M through 2021, and that includes his 2018 salary. He’s making a very reasonable $15M next season , $13M in 2020, and $12M in 2021, his age 37 season. That’s far, far less than Adam Jones, Daniel Murphy, and Dexter Fowler are making this season.
The bigger point though is that Pedroia’s contract is not crippling the Sox payroll, and his absence isn’t hurting the team’s performance.
Pedey earned is $$$$ when he helped them win 2 WS in 2007 & 2013.
Peddy has two choices; be banished to Pawtucket to avoid paying luxury tax (like Craig and others) or accept a new position as technology bench coach so that someone can direct runners via their I-watch.
Given that the Red Sox can’t seem to lose right now, Kinsler gets the fountain of youth and tears it up for the rest of the season. As a Yankees fan, I’m already nauseous….
BTW, Sox fans, some of you seem kind of hard on Pedroia. You think he’s dogging it?
Not at all. And even if he is, if it means he can come back and play well the next 3 years due to taking a year off and coming in ready to go next year, it’s probably worth it.
Mike156,
you go guy…
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Now the Bosox nation can enjoy captain pop-up.
Still don’t understand Ian kinsler AND Brian dozier both 2nd basemen 1 position
Pedroia is – and always has been – one of the softest players in MLB…and he is laughably considered to be “tough” just because he gets his uniform a little dirty once in a while.
What am ignorant comment. Pedroia has always laid it on the line he dives, doesn’t back down on turning the double play, always runs the bases hard, just flat plays hard. He’s a winner either you are trolling or completely stupid either way stupid comment.
I don’t agree that he’s soft, but let’s not act like running out a ground ball or turning a hard double play makes a player tough.
He is however, a great player and a winner.
1 day dl?
something new every day.
Just shut down Carlos Martinez already
13 of Moylan’s 18 walks came in April & May.
Moylan was a little unlucky to give up a home run against the Orioles which saw his ERA rise from 3.91 to 4.88 and prior to the 3.91 ERA it was 2.95 on June 9.
Snitker has not used him well at all, not like when he was under Yost or Cox…….Furthermore, Snitker rarely uses him with the bases empty, so he’s on a hiding to nothing because he’s mostly a pitch to contact pitcher. Moylan has appeared 39 times and 16 of those times has been with inherited runners.
One has wonder about Martinez’s health all along. He came out throwing bullets from the get go. Great to see but it didn’t last long. He has logged a lot of innings his past few years, and while his delivery seems effortless, the converted SS may have been experiencing shoulder issues for a while. Take it from someone who knows, a player experiences shoulder discomfort often. It is a matter of degrees. Kudos to him for pitching through the pain. Probably been an issue for a while.
Sox should’ve traded pedroia a long time ago
Right, you trade a former MVP with 2 rings when you are winning 93 games in 2016 & 2017 . Think again — charlie.
I’m really worried about Bogey’s hand/wrist. I think X-Rays were negative last year before it derailed his season.
I’m glad all former Cards players are doing well elsewhere while we could still use them now the Cardinals are still sliding down the hill with a pile of mud about to land on us bury us in.Thanks Cards front office… I hope DeWitt is paying attention to the last 3 years of terrible baseball.