The Red Sox have outrighted infielders Jose Iglesias and Yairo Munoz, according to a team announcement. This now leaves their 40-man roster at 39, giving them the opportunity to potentially make an addition before tomorrow’s ALDS kick-off. (Munoz had been on the COVID-19 related injured list since September 1st and thus wasn’t taking up a roster spot.)
Subtracting Iglesias from the roster isn’t terribly surprising, since he is unable to play for the club again this season anyhow on account of being signed after the August 31st deadline. Players joining an organization after that date are ineligible for postseason play with their new club. Iglesias was released by the Angels September 3rd and signed with the Red Sox September 6th. He is also heading into free agency after the postseason, making it a formality to cut him loose a bit early.
The club could now potentially add a player from their minor league system to the 40-man roster for postseason eligibility. Players in the organization but not on the 40-man roster before September 1 can still participate in the playoffs via a petition to the Commissioner’s Office, a fairly common maneuver throughout the league.
Another roster question hanging over the club is whether or not J.D. Martinez will be on it. The slugger hurt his ankle recently and was left off the roster for the Wild Card game. As noted by Jon Morosi of MLB Network, Martinez took the field today and “tested his ankle at low intensity.” When Martinez was asked if he would play tomorrow, he gave the noncommittal answer, “You’ll find out.” Of course, any player that the Red Sox could potentially call up would pale in comparison to a healthy Martinez, who had yet another excellent season at the plate, hitting .286/.349/.518, for a wRC+ of 128.
No surprises here. Munoz would be an emergency add and with Kike, Arroyo, Arauz, and even Travis Shaw, Second Base is more than covered
I wouldn’t mind if the Sox bring Iglesias back next season but this same logjam they have right now (probably minus Shaw) makes that seem unlikely
Red Sox also DFA the New York Yankees
So which is the goofiest injury affecting the playoffs?
Martinez tripping over a base while running out to the field?
Vince Coleman getting his leg run over by an automated tarp?
George Brett’s hemorrhoids?
Thoughts and prayers for a speedy recovery.
Julian Tavarez punching the bullpen phone in the ’04 NLCS
That dude wasn’t all there with anger issues. he wouldn’t make it now days. Who was it he stomped on their hand while they were on the ground, then leaned over and punched while they were still there? Seems like the prone player was for TB, but been so many years ago.
Joey Gathright.
Thanks for that.
If we are gonna do the Red Sox All-Angry Team, I’m gonna nominate Carl Everett and Izzy Alcantara.
Johnny Cueto would definitely make the MLB All-Angry Team with his pathetic windmill kicks.
I’m not sure it directly impacted the Redskins chances of getting to the playoffs, but Gus Ferotte headbutting the wall has to rank up there. I dare you to find an example of someone knocking themselves out in the middle of a game.
Gardner needed stitches after hitting himself in the face with his own helmet, that should count for something.
shoutout to Iggy though. helped out big time for the team and unfortunately cant help going forward.
Anyone hear about the angry Yankees fan who didn’t have anything constructive to do after his team was trounced out of the postseason?
The Boston Red Sox suspected relievers Brendan Donnelly and Eric Gagne of using performance-enhancing drugs but acquired them anyway, according to the Mitchell Report. They were both on the 2007 Red Sox that won the World Series. But Red Sox fans only like to blame the Yankees and call them cheaters. here is the article that proves that the Red Sox acquired Eric Gagne and Brandon Donnelly when they were suspected of using steroids.
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You mention 2 bit players with the Red Sox. And even your own admission they were “suspected”. Yankees list of roidheads is a mile long, involve career yankees, and we don’t have to use the word ‘suspected’.
@OriginalPudge27 They weren’t just suspected by the Red Sox as being players who used steroids. In the article it says how the Red Sox did research on both players and found that both use steroids and acquired them anyways. Also who are the career Yankees that you are referring to that used steroids? Are you referring to players who played their entire careers on the Yankees because I have no idea who you can be referring to if you are.
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@OriginalPudge In that article it says that they did some digging around and found out that Eric Gagne was indeed a steroid user but suspected Brendan Donnelly of being a steroid user. It turns out that they were both on the Mitchell report that came out later that year on December 13th 2007. but Eric Gagne and Brendan Donnelly were both on the 2007 Red Sox World Series team. I’m just trying to point out that when people say that the Yankees won World Series with steroid users so did the Red Sox.
syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/175226-the-majo…
Lou Merloni a former Boston Red Sox infielder who played on the Red Sox from 1998 through 2003 claimed that Red Sox management taught players how to use steroids during his tenure with the team.
syndication.bleacherreport.com/amp/175226-the-majo…
Don’t forget about the 2018 Red Sox who were caught cheating as well. So yes Red Sox fans the Red Sox have cheated plenty.
Sambino – 2018 is on Cora. 2017 in Houston is on Cora. The stealing scandals impacted games. Steroids didn’t. Juiced baseballs caused the home runs so wipe the slate on the entire steroid era since the data shows the juice in the ball directly impacted home runs but the juice in the players did not create an upward trend in home runs.
Also, cheating has been a common practice for 100 years. The MLB has selectively and inconsistently chosen when and who to punish.
Spitting insults about cheating back and forth between two organizations is a waste of time. It’s not a matter of if it’s a matter of how much and did the ownership group condone it. Boston hired Cora so you can draw plenty of conclusions about where they stand on cheating. Beltran took the NY cheating to Houston and teamed with Cora. There are no winners in the cheating debate except those who got away with it and didn’t get punished. That’s not one team, it’s many. It’s not one manager it’s many. It’s not one third base coach it’s many. And did the ownership groups know about the cheating and turn their cheeks? Yes they did just like during the alleged steroid era.
@KD17 Everybody sees where the Red Sox stand when it comes to cheating especially when they rehired Alex Cora. Even the Mets who everybody knows can’t do anything right knew to fire Beltran once the Astros cheating scandal was uncovered and what do the Red Sox do they rehire the cheater Alex Cora. If the Yankees would have done something like that the Red Sox fans along with the rest of the Yankees haters would be all over it.
After many months of investigating the 2018 Red Sox, MLB admitted they they have a “factual dispute” and they “largely do not have direct evidence” of cheating. There was no evidence and MLB relied on “inferences” aka guesses to conclude the Red Sox cheated. The Red Sox admitted to no wrongdoing in court in the Draft Kings case where evidence actually does matter and the case was thrown out by the judge. JD Martinez was correct when he said they didn’t find anything. The fact is not one single instance of cheating could be documented. If you are going to label someone a cheater, you need to identify at least incident of cheating which MLB clearly failed to do. Read MLB’s report on the 2018 Red Sox. I understand that some people will jump to conclusions without evidence, but that is very unfair. I can only speculate that MLB based their conclusion on inferences instead of evidence so they would not look dumb for opening the investigation.
Reminds me about what I read in Yankee book ‘Dynasty’ about the 1950s Yankees. They employed a guy to sit in Centerfield Bleachers, in a bright raincoat and binoculars. He would read the sign set down by the catcher, then raise an arm, standup, etc, so batter knew what pitch was coming. It was so obvious it was stopped after just a few games.
How is that strategy any different than banging buckets. No one was going to punish the 1950s Yankees, they were good for baseball.
Sounds like an interesting book. Thanks.
KD – Excellent post as usual!!! Cora indeed was the mastermind for both teams.
Sambino – I agree. For me the actions by Cora, Hinch and Beltran deserved a lifetime ban. The Chicago Black Sox cheated in 5 games and got life time bans for destroying the integrity of the outcomes. The Astros impacted up to 90 games. They got one year!!! I recognize lots of moral decay has happened in the last 100 years but I never realized to what degree until people were alright with only 1 year and allowing them back in at the MLB level. Surely, a ten year ban from MLB and 1 year complete suspension would have at least recognized the severity of their actions!! No offense but if a Yankee manager could have been included and it made the bans for everyone more appropriate I would have been thankful. The lack of a lifetime ban for me was a huge black eye on baseball. Hiring Cora and Hinch as managers a year later was a spit in that black eye.
MLB is a business. The only thing that matters in business is money. Integrity belongs in sports not business.
Bloody – I agree. It’s high time they convert Baseball back to a sport. Equal payroll available to each team each year and all profits are split among the teams so there is no TB or NY funded team. They all get to compete on a level playing field.
Utopia and it’s not going to happen unfortunately for baseball fans especially those in small markets..
Keep your communism away from baseball.
Bone spurs; awesome stuff!
We’ve got Jeter Downs & Tristan Casas chomping at the bit.
GGERM – Might want to promote Casas and buy Downs a TV set to watch the games. Sub .200 does not make for a MLB player.
The Yankee fans are still crying, when will they make up an excuse for the loss.
What about Jarren Duran?
Hey Munoz actually waited to get fired this time instead of just leaving and not coming back! Showing some real personal growth
Dark side. You should focus on the Stankees. They are a mess! Nice weekly reader jokes.
It’s 20 yrs of spending the most for 1 WS title. To understand just how pathetic Hal’s $$$ were spent you need look at Lux Tax Paid 2002-2020.
NYY — 348MM
LAD — 150MM
BOS— 35MM
DET — 11MM
jml1950 – It’s not just Hal it’s pops Steinbrenner when he was around.
After the Red Sox won in 2018 and Yankee fans complained about BOS outspending the NYY I did a study that showed that from 1988 to 2018 41 years the Red Sox outspent the Yankees four times in 1991, 1992, 2017 and 2018. So 4 out of 41 years the Red Sox spent more and have 4 rings. The Yankees have 5 rings thanks to their short hot streak in the late 1990s. For the extra ring the Yankees paid roughly $670M more in payroll than BOS. Yep $670M over 41 years!! That’s an average of over $16M per year more!!! What makes that number even more insane is at the beginning of the 41 year period payrolls were roughly $15M for BOS and $18M for NYY. That’s only a difference of $3M when the average is $15M so there was some serious wasted money after 2000!!!
Would you believe since their win in 2000 the NYY have spent $3.053 Billion on payroll for 1 championship and BOS has spent $2.474 Billion on payroll for 4 championships!! This is why giving up Mookie and Price for a cost of $10M in luxury tax made no sense. When you consider the Yankees profits are close to two thirds of a billion per year and the Red Sox profits are near 1/3 of a billion each year, why would either team worry about the luxury tax?
Guess what? LAD figured this out and now they don’t care about it but unfortunately BOS has dropped out of the race for spending the most money despite the fact that they actually used it far more effectively than the other big spenders. I’m going to miss the good old days when BOS tried to compete with the Yankees!!!
Hopefully somebody will determine in the near future that the new approach doesn’t work and go back to having at least 4 star hitters and at least 3 star pitchers. It’s going to be the only way to compete with the new AL East. Heck, even BAL is getting close to jumping back in the competition so the austerity program needs to end soon and all the mistakes of the past (Cherington era) need to be written off as lost profits for ownership so the current club can spend to at least the cap to reacquire talent like the 2018 team (which was under the cap except for the Cherington overages)
When will the Yankees realize Cashman is not that good. I hope they keep him so he can waste more money with nothing to show for it…Lol
My theory is that Cashman got beat up for years over his inability to develop a minor league system. And now that he has one, he doesn’t want to let go. And then he gets these blind spots, where he doesn’t recognize that Torres is not a SS, or that you can’t start the season with Bruce & Gardner as your lefthand hitters.
Fenway and the Trop a race to see which venue should be plowed into the ground first.
One stadium was modeled after a can of Tunafish and the other was built for Hobbits with a forty-foot wall that should have been built outside the stadium to hide it from view.
Lol, I hate you. Good take!
Here we go again hahahahahaha. Since someone deleted my previous comment, I guess I’d be bitter too if my favorite team paid someone $324 million to get yanked in the wild card game. Get a life
I guess you prefer cookie-cutter concrete boxes. Good luck with that.
Blasphemy! We do not speak of the Cathedral of Boston in this way
Iglesias had a bad year no excuses,but I definitely believe he will have quite a few offers.
Iglesias hit well for the Red Sox. Yes, small sample size, but I hope Bloom resigns him.
BA .356
OBP .406
OPS .915
The best prospect in Cuban baseball, Cesar Prieto, has just been declared a free agent
Cuba’s best prospect, just declared a free agent and plays second base