The Red Sox announced that they’ve reinstated left-hander David Price from the 10-day injured list. He’ll start this afternoon’s game against the Blue Jays. Boston also reinstated catcher Sandy Leon from paternity leave and, in a pair of corresponding moves, optioned catcher Oscar Hernandez and righty Josh Smith to Triple-A Pawtucket.
Price’s stay on the injured list due to elbow tendinitis proved to only be a couple of weeks long. His return is nevertheless notable, as Boston has had to patch together its rotation with both Price and Nathan Eovaldi on the shelf due to injury. In recent weeks, the Sox have turned to Smith and fellow righty Hector Velazquez to start games (without receiving much in the way of quality results).
Price will join Chris Sale, Rick Porcello and Eduardo Rodriguez in the top four spots of the rotation, though the fifth spot will remain somewhat of a question mark until Eovaldi returns from an April 21 elbow procedure that was expected to sideline him for up to six weeks. In 36 innings so far in 2019, Price has a 3.75 ERA with a 42-to-10 K/BB ratio. Although his velocity isn’t quite what it once was, averaging 92.3 mph, Price’s 13.6 percent swinging-strike rate marks a four-percent increase over his 2018 level and would represent a career-high if he can sustain it.
Hope he’s good to go. I don’t want Red Sox fans with any excuses for finishing 3rd in the division
Ehh still too early to count them out. They’re still a good team who will undoubtedly go on some good W streaks before season is over.
Yup. When you cannot find a bad pitcher, or even a below-average SP in the rotation, we should have stretches of .700 ball. It feels like we are as a thin as a razor blade, but our starting hitters, rotation, and 3 guys deep in the BP, I think we are about as good as anyone.
Red Sox will have no excuses for being 3rd after the Yankees with 18 on the IL
“18 on the IL” kinda sounds like yankee fans preparing excuses for later.
If they dont win a championship, they gonna look real bad. The payroll they spent this century. Only 1 championship to Red Sox 4? Im not saying Sox have been cheap, but at least they have 4 rings to show for it.
I bet he did water skiing with those big feet. He didn’t need any ski’s
Oh like the Evil Empire use every excuse they could other yrs? I am not speaking bout this yr, the NYY have played off the wheel with all their injuries, a testament to how deep they are, n how the sluggers they have makes all the others good. The Redsox lost the 2 top pitchers n a lousy spring training experiment n barely threaded water. The bullpen has been decent, n finally Sale is Sale.
Other than Porcello, the other starters all have injury flags. That’s my worry. Every team though has these issues and a winning team steps up. Eovaldi, Price and Porcello all stepped up big along with the bullpen last October.
Watch out Yanks here they come!
Boston will get the Wild Card and Tampa will finish 3rd but also get the Wild Card . The Yankees will win the division and have the second best record in the AL behind Houston. Houston is going to win 105 games and New York will match its 100 from last season. Boston’s bullpen will hurt the team but this was a 108 win team last season so I think 95 while it’s a step back it’s good enough for the wild card spot. Tampa will fall just short of Boston with 93 wins but will also get the Wild card because Cleveland is only getting 90.
Enough with the vague predictions. Please be more specific. Scors of games, pitch counts, etc.
Now he’s going to have to fake another injury to avoid facing the Yankees next week
especially if gary’s in the lineup. price might have to play a lot more fortnite if he doesnt wanna face scary gary
That’s a mean thing to say Begamin, n totally not true.
Yankees have had a great start but let’s also be realistic they have played 9 more games at home then on the road and they have only played a handful of games against teams with a winning record.
The Yankees are to be commended for starting there season so well with all those injuries but they have been fortunate to start with such a favorable schedule.
Sounds like they are getting some of their guys back soon and should help with their tougher upcoming schedule but the East is still wide open.
With you on that Bruin. Have seen double digit leads evaporate after late august multiple times over the decades and thru mid may, the Sox are only down 4.5 and that’s nothing.
Baseball is a funny game and weird/strange things happen. longer you watch it, the less boastful become if are smart with tiny leads as there now is.
I was discussing that yesterday. When the Cards won the WS in 2006, they had two 8-game losing streaks.
On 6/21/13, the LAD were 12 under and 9.5 games out. Then they went 53-13 over the next 66 games and 13.5 games ahead.
Yankees are literally missing their 4 best players from last season (Judge, Stanton, Didi, and Severino) and another important bullpen cog (Betances). Now the chances of them all returning to all star level aren’t high but it’s still gonna be feel like some crazy mid season additions.
The Red Sox are having a bizarre season and the NYY are having an amazing season.
Injuries aren’t always the answer or the NYY would be doing terrible?
Why does Seattle come out of the gate on fire and then fall flat on their face?
Why does Tampa play better than Boston with a $60M payroll vs. $236 for Boston?
Wonder if anyone can really explain why teams go cold and teams get hot?
It seems to frequently be the managers that pay the price of under performance..
One thing seems to be worth thinking about.
It’s better to spend less if you play poorly.
You’re screwed if you over spend and do poorly.
It’s better to draft and develop talent more often than not rather then buying it.
Mookie Betts was offered $200M for 10 years and turned it down. He presumably wants $400M? Does anyone wonder why he would turn that down?
If the big spending teams stop buying and instead draft and develop better then small spending teams will have less inexpensive talent to work with and there are players that get $100,000 every day 365 day a year for the next 10 years. Doesn’t that seem expensive. Maybe crazy?
We pay for launch angle, hitting into shifts and not only try for 350 ft home runs but go for 500 ft ones. Because singles aren’t the best way to raise your total bases.
Thus players get paid for OPS now and not OBP like they used to.
There are numerous players near the top of the league in home runs and are flirting with a 200 BA.
The MLB just set a 1 month record for home runs in May.
Pitchers now routinely throw over 95 mph. Innings pitched are going down and yet arm issues seems as high as ever.
Once people get the big contracts it seems they often get injured in odd ways.
Teams don’t want to risk further injury with the big contract and players have nothing to lose by not playing if they have the big contract.
And often aging players with big contracts do poorly.
Wonder if a salary cap makes sense like they have in the NFL?
Wonder if a base salary makes sense for everybody and then add performance to the base. That would protect then cost and the ticket prices.
Perhaps a disability insurance policy could be purchased to add so layer of protection for the player that gets injured?
Attendance seems to be going down in baseball. Major League Baseball’s attendance problem is not going away, as a significant dip in 2018 has endured into the new season – even with better weather and a boost from some big-name stars on the move.
I suspect changes are coming.