5:30pm: The Sox have now made it official, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive. Almonte has been selected with Cordero going on the 60-day IL. He won’t be eligible to return this season.
3:50pm: The Red Sox are going to select outfielder Abraham Almonte to their roster for tonight’s game, according to Pete Abraham of the Boston Globe. Almonte isn’t yet on the 40-man roster, meaning corresponding moves will be required. It’s possible that outfielder Franchy Cordero will head to the 10-day or maybe even the 60-day injured list. Abraham reported yesterday that Cordero has a sprain on both sides of his ankle and could be done for the season.
Once Almonte gets into a game, it will be the 10th straight season of MLB action for the 33-year-old. He’s spent time with Seattle, San Diego, Cleveland, Kansas City, Arizona and Atlanta. In 440 career games, he’s hit .223/.302/.374 for a wRC+ of 83. This year, he signed a minor league deal with the Brewers and went to the Red Sox in a July trade. He’s been having a great year down on the farm, hitting .293/.417/.534 across 80 Triple-A games. That amounts to a 154 wRC+.
Despite his years of experience, he’s only accrued four years and 155 days of MLB service time. Should he carry any of that tremendous minor league production up to the big leagues with him, the Red Sox could keep him around for another season via arbitration. He’ll step into an outfield mix that includes Alex Verdugo, Tommy Pham, Enrique Hernández and Rob Refsnyder.
That mix won’t include Cordero for now, as he injured himself crashing into the wall at Tropicana Field on Monday, having to be carted off the field. The 28-year-old has gotten into 84 games on the season, hitting .219/.300/.397 for a wRC+ of 93. Like Almonte, he can be retained for 2023 via arbitration, should the Sox decide to tender him a contract.
Exciting time to be a Red Sox fan…
He’s got a OPS in the 950s in triple A, so he’s at least something to throw out in the outfield
Looks like he has a history of crushing minor league pitching but floundering against major league pitchers.
Sounds like the guy he’s replacing
Chaim’s gotta see what he’s got here before he has to bring him to Oakland’s system next year. Would hate to go in blind!
Did one of the Red Sox OF’s get hurt? Just wondering what moves they are making to bring the 33 year old Almonte onto the major league roster.
Franchy Cordero sprained his ankle. He’s done for the year
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why this gem? prefer Alex Binelas over Almond
Chaim’s giving us a sneak preview of what his 2023 or 2024 Oakland A’s are going to look like. Almonte and Franchy likely the center pieces of a truly fear-inspiring lineup. Look out, AL West!
Binelas doesn’t have much outfield experience that I am aware of.
Also, Binelas has had a tough time adapting to Double AA (.596 OPS, 73 SO in 188 AB). Much too soon for the Majors.
I think Binelas may right the ship. He’s hitting more lately. Only been in AA for only two and a half months.
agreed as he seems to have recently adapted to AA pitching and has 24 HRs between the two leagues. You could put Arroyo in the OF and give Binelas a spell at 3B. Regardless, the point is that Almonte should not be called up as you need to give the kids MLB experience as a result of another 5th place finish (5th time since 2012) before sending them back down for next year.
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the point is that Almonte should not be called up as you need to give the kids MLB experience
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We don’t really have any positional players that need MLB experience right now. Wong & Casas are up, and that looks correct. One could make an argument for Ronaldo Hernandez, but we already have Plawecki & McGuire. Spreading out the ABs any further might be counter-productive.
Duran & Downs need to get better at the AAA level before they can get better at the MLB level. I’d be open to giving some exposure to our AAA pitchers, but Almonte wouldn’t affect that.
I’d add Hernandez and work him in as catcher and DH. Both Plawecki and Martinez are FAs at the end of the season, and most likely gone.
Binelas isn’t anywhere near a sniff of the major leagues.
That’s 2013 Mariners opening day Center fielder Abraham Almonte to you
All I have to say is Bloom’s gotta deliver this off-season or else he’s gone.
Oh, pwndroia has spoken. Bloom trembles.
Lol, pwn, says this on every mundate Red Sox post.
Actually I haven’t. It’s literally the first time I’ve said this. I’m not completely against Bloom by the way. He’s done some good but he’s got to get results at this point. no results next year and I don’t think he stays.
No offense but are you a troll? Never seen you around.
Then you haven’t been around the right places. I don’t frequent dives.
Wow, it’s come to this? Almonte is a career AAAA player who continues to inexplicably get major league opportunities.
With the AL East being a competitive cauldron for the next few years at least, and the Sox talent mostly in A or A+, free agency and trades seem the logical avenue moving forward. That said, is it reasonable to expect 2023 to be a building year where signed pieces are flipped for prospects or should they spend a wad of cash and go for it immediately? As a fan, the longer term build makes more sense for sustainability. The upcoming FA class is not as deep as years past. Retain the core and add pieces? QO some veterans and let them walk? Going to be an interesting off season.
Bloom should’ve at least traded two other players that have contracts ending this year before the deadline. That to me was a missed opportunity. Don’t think Bogaerts is coming back.
Pwn – Bogaerts has a full trade in his contract. Eovaldi and Hill were hurt. JD has been so bad that he wasn’t worth a bag of balls (his remaining contract for 2022 would have $6,500,000 and no team wanted it). There was no one else anyone wanted that was not already on the IL!
Eovaldi got hurt AFTER the trade deadline and pretty sure Bpgaerts would’ve waived a no trade clause to play on a postseason team
pwndroia: Wow. Eovaldi was placed on the IL on June 12th with back inflammation which is BEFORE the trade deadline.
mlbtraderumors.com/2022/06/red-sox-place-nathan-eo…
Eovaldi recovered from that injury and was pitching for us when the deadline came around. Then he re-injured himself after the deadline. Pretty sure a team would’ve taken him.
Eovaldi was pitching for us at the deadline, not on the IL. Check out his game logs this year.
espn.com/mlb/player/gamelog/_/id/31174/nathan-eova…
He could have easily been traded to get at least something back. Management didn’t do that.
pwndroia: Eovaldi came off the IL and had only 3 starts in July and his ERA was 11.08. Do you really believe a team would give up something good for two months of that?? I don’t.
Based on his history, yes. There was no indication of injury at the time. It was worth a try trading him. Remember how well he pitched in the 2018 postseason? I’m sure a team would have gambled, even if a low tier prospect.
pwndroia: I certainly agree it was worth a try and the Red Sox did try. They listened to offers for Eovaldi.
mlbtraderumors.com/2022/08/red-sox-trade-rumors-na…
Are you saying the Red Sox did not try? It looks like they did not like any of the offers they received. We don’t know what the offers were. If they would get very little in return, why make the trade? If they were offered very little, then from a business standpoint, I think it makes sense to keep Eovaldi and stay in the Wild Card mix longer to draw more fans to the ballpark. The bottom line is we don’t know the offers the Red Sox received. If Eovaldi had 3 good starts coming off the IL before the trade deadline, I think teams would have made good offers. Instead, Eovaldi came off the IL and had 3 starts with and ERA of 11.08. I doubt the offers were good for that. That’s my guess and opinion about the situation.
It’s hard to know if they tried but we were never in the wild card race as of July. I would’ve done my best to trade Eovaldi for something. I think he would have been easier to move than people think, based on his former success. Maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know, but I saw him as a trade piece and I believe others have to. At the time, he was past injuries. The bottom line is Chaim Bloom could have done more to sell when we were clearly not in the postseason race. For some reason he decided not to.
You may be right. I think the other thing going on is that the Red Sox are afraid of fan reaction if they have a complete sell-off. So, it looks like they traded some players and kept other players to at least give the illusion they were still competing. If the top priority is building the farm system, I prefer a complete sell-off because that should achieve the goal quicker and we are back to winning. I was hoping for something good in return for Eovaldi. I think we are on the same page for the most part. I disagreed with you saying it was a missed opportunity without knowing the offers the Red Sox received for Eovaldi. I am hesitant to bash my team. I also expect some mistakes to be made as we all make them.
The best trade in the last ten years was the Gonzalez trade and that was a complete sell out that got us a championship the next year.
Best Red Sox trade that is
Pieces ? We need two starting pitchers, bullpen help, a closer, a left fielder, a right fielder, a first baseman, sign Boggarts, and a catcher. Basically we need an entire team and management is putting a lot of confidence in Bloom. I do not know what the rush was to sign Enrique Hernandez. I am hoping that they get a real GM and can Bloom.
With the AL East being a competitive cauldron for the next few years at least, and the Sox talent mostly in A or A+
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With better health, we’d probably be in the playoff hunt. That said, you’re right. For years, this was usually a 2-team race. Now there are five teams in the ALE that can contend.
As a fan, continue to build, but spend up to the $233M cap.
Raise the pennant, boys, the season is saved!!!
I miss the lockout
I’m almost starting to miss Dave Dombrowski. I was for the switch to Bloom at first, but this just ain’t working out at this point.
One could argue that DD was the one that created this mess. I’m not anti-DD, but JD, Eovaldi, & Sale have combined for $66M for a combined 1.4 bWAR. Add Price’s $16M back in and we have almost nothing to show for our $82M.
And none of his prospects have yet to contribute anything. It’s early, and there are a couple of DD prospects that I like, but DD basically ruined the 2022 team.
I don’t think that’s completely fair to put the 2022 failure on Dombrowski. Bloom had a horrible offseason (trading Renfroe, signing Story, not getting any good pitching)… Dombrowski actually would have spent some money last offseason. I think part of the reason ownership canned him to begin with is because they didn’t want to spend any money anymore!
The Sale contract was awful, but other than that I will take what Dombrowski did with the team over what Bloom has done with it any day.
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I hope this is one trolll with 20 accounts. No fanbase could be this spoiled. To write the same garbage on every single Red Sox post at MLBTR. This isn’t happening on any other team’s posts. Its a minor transaction to cover an injury. We don’t need to hear a diatribe on every one of these. Stay on subject, and talk baseball for a change.
CORA has got to go …. the Sox record versus AL EAST is pathetic. He continually loses games with his piss poor moves. Cash is one step ahead of him always in these games versus Tampa.
This is exactly the stuff Im talking about. Never heard of this account, checked last 5 Red Sox posts, didnt post once. Bashes Cora spewing the same nonsense as so many other haters (AL East Record). Is your main account AL34, FPG or KG? Theres no way a random baseball fan decided to create an account and the first thing he needs to say is ‘Fire Cora’.
LOL,,, Never heard of this account…. I post here often and generally I am real positive. you need to do better research buddy. I have just had it with Cora. Never have liked him, they won the WS in spite him because that team was absolutely loaded and most had career years. I am not in the camp of complaining about Bloom… he is doing what he was tasked to do by management.
On Monday night, I am screaming at the TV when Cora brings Familia in with a 3 -2 lead bottom of the 7th…. he proceeds to hit the 1st guy and walk another…. next thing you know its 4-3 Tampa. In the top of the 8th Plawecki leads off with a walk……. then Cora proceeds not to pinch run for him even though he now has 3 catchers on the roster and has Wong in one of them that actually is a pretty fast runner. Plawecki proceeds to get thrown out on a force play at second base by an eyelash… If it its any other runner they would have been safe…. entirely different inning would have occurred if he had managed this inning effectively. To make matters worse, it gets to the 9th inning and Cora Pinch hits for Plawecki with McGwire who singles and then he pinch runs Wong for him…. a Little late you think? On Tuesday he has the team hit in the morning (Like a Hockey Pre Skate) instead of hitting before the game at the stadium and the team proceeds to get 6 hits and blown out. Wednesday both Bogaerts and Devers not in the line up…. team is shut out….. it goes on and on…. I’ve seen enough.
On Monday night, I am screaming at the TV when Cora brings Familia in with a 3 -2 lead bottom of the 7th
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IN his 8 previous appearances, Familia had an ERA of 3.00. Were you screaming at the TV during those appearances as well? I see this a lot with RS fans. Familia is mediocre at best. But he has to occasionally pitch him, That’s the same with every team.
And to be honest, it wasn’t that bad an appearance. The HBP that started it should’ve been called a strike. And Kelly allowed the double that ended had the batter fooled, and the batter one-handed that ground ball right down the RF line.
Innings like that happen to every RP in baseball.
Familia should not enter a game that is close… period…. there is a reason he was let go by Philly…. he has major command issues…. but i agree with you that the pitch that hit the Rays hitter was close to being in the zone.
Here is an example of one of my posts: This was on Jarren Duran:
You can say that I am bitching like all other Red Sox fans and to a point you are correct with this Cora rant…. but as I said… I have just had it.
Cooperdooper7 – 1 week ago
Exactly….the whining nonsense on this board by so called know it all Red Sox fans is ridiculous. The Kid hustles all the time, but the stupid fan base that wants to complain about everything because its been a ***** season, continue to give up on the young kids because they don’t have immediate success. Does Duran have some flaws in his game…. yes. But based on his speed and athletic ability, he can become very good complimentary player. He needs to put the ball in play more to the left side of the field instead of pulling off and rolling over grounders to second.
The RS fans complain about their prospects more than any team in BB. Since I am from The Bronx, I go to more games than anywhere else. Yankee fans treat rookies like they were part of their family. An 0-4 by a RS rookie will bring people in here screaming.
Joe – Red Sox fans in general complain about everything. (I have most of them muted).
The rookies need a chance to adjust to the MLB. Casas and Bello, IMO, will adjust and be good players. Duran is not a CF as his defense is not there. I think at some point he gets traded. Rafaela is not to far from Boston, and may come up in late 2023. He is being compared to JBJ defensively.
Four World Series championships in the last 18 years should buy some patience, but the fan base is spoiled rotten. MLBtraderumors mute button works great on them!