The Red Sox officially placed Chris Sale on the 15-day injured list, retroactive to July 19, after the southpaw fractured his pinky on a comebacker during his final start before the All-Star Break. Brayan Bello has been recalled from Triple-A Worcester to take his active roster spot. Boston also selected infielder Yolmer Sánchez and optioned out catcher Connor Wong.
Sale’s timetable for a return remains unclear. He underwent surgery earlier this week, with the team announcing they anticipated he’d be back at some point this season. Manager Alex Cora acknowledged today he has “no idea” when the southpaw could return, adding “hopefully he can get back with us and dominate” (via Steve Hewitt of the Boston Herald). Sale has pitched just twice this season after missing the first three months of the year with a rib fracture.
Boston also placed second baseman Trevor Story on the IL just before the Break, necessitating Sánchez’s call-up. The righty-hitting infielder adds some depth on the dirt, although rookie Jeter Downs looks the favorite for playing time at second base. Sánchez, a former Gold Glove winner with the White Sox, adds a solid defensive specialist to the bench. He’s a career .245/.300/.359 hitter through just under 2500 plate appearances at the big league level.
Sánchez also saw brief action as a COVID substitute earlier this season, appearing in a game during a series in Toronto. That promotion was always temporary, but this call-up represents a permanent addition to the 40-man roster. Boston was able to send the 30-year-old back to Worcester without passing him through waivers last time around, but they’d have to designate him for assignment to remove him from the MLB roster this time. Signed to a minor league deal over the offseason, Sánchez has posted a .247/.377/.413 line with the WooSox, walking in a massive 16.5% of his 303 plate appearances.
Boston had a vacancy on the 40-man roster, so no additional move was necessary to accommodate Sánchez’s promotion. Josh Winckowski is temporarily not counting against the 40-man while on the COVID list; Boston will need to create space to reinstate Wincowski whenever he’s ready to return.
Hope he makes a full recovery but I also hope he takes his time about it.
The red Sox have wasted enough time on him with 30 starts in 3 yrs. time to get rid of him.
Package him with Devers? That contract won’t be easy to move unless they attach value to it.
Devers ain’t going anywhere.
Congrats to you Jim Edmonds for having easily the stupidest comment ever. I really hope it was meant to be sarcastic in some way but I don’t think it was.
Roy – Do you mean at the trade deadline? Or offseason?
I agree he won’t be traded by the deadline, but there’s a good chance he will during the offseason.
Remember the Red Sox are now Rays North, except without the winning.
I agree. Trade them all. Didn’t you see(not watch) Friday night’s game? Time to Jack this team up and send them all packing. They have to heart and no fight left in them. Start over with new players and new ownership too.
Joe says: Classy comment.
Didn’t say I wanted anything bad for him at all. Just take his time and make sure he’s completely healed.
I took your comment as a nice gesture but as a fan from another team. Come back healthy but don’t be quick about it. I understood it. All good bro.
Youre looking for sarcasm where there was none. Some people dont know how to take a complement.
Meh, Boston.
It sure beginning to look that way. Sellers at the deadline? Lose this weekend Series against the Blue Jays tells us a lot and then against your tribe first part of next week. 2-5 should do us in and 3-4 I would say as well.
While I’m at it in the third inning in tonight’s game, Nathan Eovaldi sucks. I’m done.
Ace of the staff on the hill in the game back after the All-Star break. Must win for a struggling team and it’s 6-0 already. Sox are done.
Eovaldi should never have been the ace.
Casas will be ready soon. Prob before Sept.
Yeah I’m sure he’s the key to them reaching the payoffs he sucks
Yeah, because his comment alluded to that?
Who hurt you, Hideki?
Hideki is a major Sox hater, although he doesn’t seem old enough to be bitter about 2004.
He wrote just one sentence and still managed a misspelled word and missing punctuation. I suppose it could be drunk posting, who knows.
Does anyone really care about punctuation in a one sentence comment that is a statement?
I guess that depends what else they were planning to write before passing out or getting distracted by a butterfly or something?
My point is this: If a posted comment looks like it was written by an uneducated child, then what they were trying to express probably doesn’t have much (if any) value.
We’re not making the playoffs. We can’t even win in our own division.
pwndroia – I don’t think even the worst critics would have predicted 12-27 against the AL East. How do you go nearly four months without winning a divisional series?
Any other big payroll team in this situation would have fired the manager by now. Not the Red Sox though, John Henry already gave Cora a free pass with his “this is a building year” excuse.
Maybe they’ll fire one of the dozens of coaches and coordinators.
pwndroia – Picture a scenario where Wacha, Eovaldi, Hill, Whitlock, Taylor, Hernandez, Devers, Xander, Story, and JD are all healthy by the trade deadline and both Sale & Paxton are healthy by September.
You don’t think they could make the playoffs then? Provided of course Bloom doesn’t sell off any of them.
@Native American: What would be the sense in bringing in Casas and starting his service time clock?
If I remember right, everyone knew Sale was injured during the World Series run so why did the Red Sox extend him?
Everyone knew Sale’s mechanics were going to get him in trouble, he defied people, much like Tim Lincecum, for a while but all that torque on his joints caught up to him. Granted that come backer was a fluke but I don’t think his more significant injuries are.
All right just bring up another Worcester and keep that train moving Bloom !!!!
This tells me Nathan Eovaldi wants out. He wants to be traded at the deadline to a contender. It helped him get a big contract last time and he wants to do it again. Finish strong, pitch seven Innings of relief in a playoff game etc. Then sign a big fat 4-year deal. He Figures it’s a better scenario than finishing the season with the Red Sox as a standard starting pitcher with a 4.00 era and a so-so season.
How else do you explain walking a guy to load the bases in an important game on 4 Straight pitches. How else would you explain his overall crap performance tonight? Nathan is a better pitcher than this. He knows it, I know it, we all know it. He is on the first plane out August 2nd.
Don’t give up Red Sox fans…I’ve been watching the Toronto team for awhile and they are a hot mess. Immature hitters and a “party like it’s 1999” ethos in the clubhouse with Springer and Bichette trading dance moves even both have not been hitting in any dynamic way. Remember their manager just got axed cuz of all this. The Tampa Bay Rays are extremely hampered with injuries and inconsistent offense. I believe Seattle to be the only stalwart force in the WC thru the end of season. SO don’t be crying over your Wheaties quite yet !!! I see hope with a turnaround!!!
Yeah that hot mess is up about 30-3 on them today
Good take and probably has a lot of sense to it. I just figured they’d come out of the gate for the second half with a little more than this. Team Ace on the hill to start things off you figure they would represent at home especially.
I’ll try to keep my composure, I usually burn my hat in August but I’m getting the matches ready for tonight. Thank you for talking me off the ledge.
If we turn it around and somehow make the playoffs (with the 30% chance we have according to baseball reference), we are a first round exit. Any deterrent from selling at the deadline is a huge mistake. We are not in a winnable position this season. Our offense hasn’t even been that great and that’s how we win games. Our injuries alone indicate we need to sell.
Way too early to predict what will happen in the postseason.
Again, remember last year? Remember how crappy they looked the last couple months of the regular season? Remember how they did in the postseason?
Sox down by 3 TDs and the Jay’s are driving.
4 td now
7/22/22 THE DAY BOSTON BUMS & THIER BUM MANAGER & BIGGER BUM BLOOME LEFT UP A NEVER BEFORE SEEN 28 RUNS IN THEIR BUM HOUSE! A WORDS FOR OWNERSHIP…SELL, TRADE & FIRE NEARLY EVERY BUM PLAYER NOT INKED PAST 2022 & THIS MGMT & COACHING STAFF IS TRASH!
Walk outside. Take a deep breath and hold it for 10 seconds. Take 10 seconds to exhale that breath. Repeat 3 times.
Now ask yourself, was this necessary?
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
C’mon folks, the shellaking put on the Red Sox by Toronto is only ONE game, only one blip, don’t extrapolate from the small sample size, effectively means very little in the grand scheme of things…they will get up, dust themselves off, and play again tomorrow…and may even win the game. They still can win the series. (I’m a Seattle guy BTW, but my Boston friends have been sulking rather predominantly, so here to boost morale.)
Oh dear lord I don’t know what happened there. Overexuburance or something. How do I contact the Help Desk?
That’s ok. We needed some comic relief here.
after yesterday’s embarrassing score, the red sox should be looking to add a wide receiver.
Yolmer (aka Carlos) is back in the big leagues!
Good for him!
They needed him to pitch the 9th. Of course they brought him up.
lol
He pitched better than half the bullpen last night make him a two way player
Starters kill this bullpen by not going deep into games. This bullpen is a mess for the next two games. If I was Henry I would call Bloom on the “Carpet”.
And tell him what?
“You’ve had an unbelievably bad rash of injuries this year. Last year, you guys were lucky, and greatly overachieved, yet very few gave you credit for it, especially over at MLBTR, the whining was ridiculous. This year, you’ve had the opposite luck, which is how luck usually works. Lets be sellers at the deadline, trade off veterans with expiring contracts, lock up Devers and try again next year. Oh and by the way Good Job.”
I agree with you AL34.