The Red Sox are designating left-hander Matt Dermody for assignment, manager Alex Cora told the team’s beat (including Julian McWilliams of the Boston Globe). The move clears active and 40-man roster spots. That’s likely to go to outfielder Adam Duvall, as Pete Abraham of the Globe tweeted this afternoon that Duvall was expected to be reinstated from the 60-day injured list before tomorrow’s game against the Yankees.
Dermody was just selected onto the big league roster a few hours ago. He took the ball tonight against the Guardians, allowing three runs (all driven in on a pair of José Ramírez homers) across four innings. Knowing Duvall would be back on Thursday, it seems likely the Boston front office always viewed this as a one-off start for Dermody, which represented the first of his major league career.
The 32-year-old southpaw had spent the season in Triple-A Worcester after signing a minor league deal over the winter. He’d pitched reasonably well for the WooSox, working to a 4.50 ERA across 44 innings. He fanned just under a quarter of opponents, had a decent 45.3% grounder rate and kept his walk percentage to a stingy 4.7% clip.
Dermody has always had strong control but generally worked as a low-strikeout grounder specialist. The Iowa product has been a reliever for the bulk of his career, only moving to the rotation in Triple-A for the Cubs last year. He entered play tonight with a 5.60 ERA through 27 1/3 major league innings over 30 relief outings.
The Sox will have a week to trade Dermody or put him on waivers. The latter is the likelier course of action. Were he go to unclaimed, he’d have the right to test minor league free agency because he’s been outrighted before in his career.
Duvall will make his return to the Boston outfield when first eligible, 60 days from his initial IL placement. The offseason signee opened the season as the Sox’s center fielder after signing a $7MM free agent deal. He got off to an incredible start, blasting 10 extra-base hits (four homers, five doubles and a triple) in his first eight games. Those scorching two weeks were cut unceremoniously short when he suffered a fracture in his left wrist while diving for a ball in the outfield.
Boston has used Jarren Duran as the primary center fielder of late. The former top prospect has a solid .278/.335/.432 line through 179 plate appearances. He’s cooled significantly after a roaring start, though, hitting only .236/.292/.371 while striking out a third of the time since the calendar flipped to May.
Boston has gotten excellent corner outfield work out of Masataka Yoshida and Alex Verdugo, so Duran figures to be pushed into a fourth outfield role, joining the righty-swinging Rob Refsnyder as an option off the bench. Cora held Verdugo out of today’s game in response to what the manager cited as a lack of hustle during Wednesday’s contest, as noted by Ian Browne of MLB.com. However, Cora indicated Verdugo’s discipline would be limited to one game and he’d be back in the lineup for Friday’s series opener in the Bronx.
Wow, what a waste of a transaction.
I mean, did you even know who Dermoday was before today?
Vro acts like teams have a limited number of transactions! It’s not like teams do this sort of thing all the time!!!! *insert laughing while crying emojis*
I imagine Duvall will also see some time at first and DH,
Yoshisa needs to play just about every day. So does Verdugo. The rest is about balancing at bats for the young guys (Duran, Casas) while keeping guys like Turner and Refsnyder in the mix.
The one guy I can see really losing time when/if Story comes back is Herandez. Who is he really better than? Unless you just stick him at second.
Young guys? Duran is almost 27. Let’s stop calling him young and call him what he is. A dime-a-dozen
“almost 27”
You’re trying kinda hard. He’s the same age as Houck and Whitlock, he’s younger than Crawford and Wong. Two years older than Bello.
The point is…play guys who are under team control and see what you have if you aren’t gonna win anyway.
Correction: Wow, what a waste of a *season*.
This guy was signed, when he was signed, expressly with the idea that at some point they would want a manufactured day off for the pitching staff by throwing him in and sending him on his way. Nobody banked on him becoming a contributing member of the team.
There’s 99 games to go, and the schedule gets harder from here. Of the 52 AL East games, roughly 37 remain to be played starting tomorrow night. They also have yet to play the Astros and Rangers, not to mention games against NL squads like Atl and LAD. Lots of baseball and some very good clubs.
Boston needs to step up in a BIG way to even keep flirting with .500 like they have been
I think they will maintain .500 but I’m not sure they’ll be better than that. They’ve had an eerie season where they have won series against good teams but have also lost series to terrible teams. I think .500 or close to it is reasonable, see as they’ve been a pendulum since day 1.
aww come on give Bloom credit for finding a guy who was able to start a game for the Sox. On to the next BBB Chaim.
Congratulations on showing your absolute lack of baseball knowledge and understanding.
Congratulations on attempting to write a coherent sentence.
If I wanted my come back I’d go visit your mom
That was quick.
It looks like Kluber was much worse than Dermody tonight. Maybe he should have been the DFA.
Give him a week…
He was brought up to pitch against the Guardians that do not hit lefties well.
Many teams have done that this year.
After the game those teams send many of the pitchers back down to the minors.
lmao hopefully he doesn’t make it back
That’s not very nice!
They should be designating the guy who pitched after Dermody (too)
I hope Kluber doesn’t hang around as long as Brasier. Lol
This guy is a prime example of the roster finagling that needs to be fixed. Dermody has played in the majors for five different years and yet he has not yet accumulated 1 year of service time. I don’t know that MLB needs to implement the NBA system of 1 game played equals 1 year of service, but I think something needs to be done to address this manipulation. Tampa is really bad with it. Calling up vet arms for just a couple days and then DFA’ing them for a fresh arm.
They get a major league check for those games. Maybe they should be better at baseball if they want to accrue service time.
Your idea would fast track ruining their pension system. Imagine giving a guy with like 40 games over 5 years a pension for life? The amount he paid into the system would be so small and his pension would just eat into what everyone else paid.
Dermody has less than 1 year of service time because he has 31 1/3 career innings pitched, due to a career 5.74 ERA (both calculated after tonight’s start). His career Triple-A ERA is 4.06. He hasn’t earned a full year of service time because he’s not a good enough pitcher.
If he is not a good enough pitcher, then why does he keep getting called up?
Because sometimes teams just need a live arm to start a game. It’s not rocket science. He’s good enough to fill space when all you need is a space filler. He’s not good enough to be on the team long term.
I understand what you are saying but if baseball changes their rules like you suggested, guys such as Dermody would not have careers in baseball.
Guys like Dermody know exactly how they be utilized, spot start/injury replacement/extra roster spot for a double header and then they will be DFA because they cannot be optioned.
He’s good enough to fill in for a day or two. He’s not good enough to stay in the majors.
If a team had to commit to a player like Dermondy then they would not commit at all. Players like him would never see MLB.
Stud – Quite often teams think they can “fix” a pitcher … but Bloom doesn’t have the staff to do that.
Lotta pressure on the Red Sox organization to dump this guy on the eve of Pride Night and the like. Can’t say what part it played but I’m sure it didn’t help his chances, and it’ll be interesting to see if another club gives him a chance to play in the minors..
Apparently a homophobic tweet in 2021 (#PrideMonth. Homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God. They will go to hell. This is not my opinion, but the #Truth. Read 1 Corinthians 6:9. May we all examine our hearts, ask Jesus to forgive us and repent of all our sins. I love you all in Christ Jesus!”) probably didn’t help his cause.
Uhh, he sucked before the tweet too.
Adam Duval is on the 60-DL which means he does not have a 40-man roster spot! He will be activated for tomorrow’s game and needs a 40-man spot. Who makes the most sense to DFA (my choice would be Kluber), but there is such a $hit storm about Dermody, he could probably easily clear waivers if the Red Sox want to keep him. They needs him in AAA! Other than Drohan who was recently called up from AA, the Worcester Red Sox do not have nearly enough starters for a AAA rotation. If they dump him they will need to sign 2 or 3 more off the scrap heap.
LA- Agreed. FWIW he gave a lengthy emotional interview after last night’s game, and addressed that issue.
Love how these organizations say “we are all inclusive of all people.” Then if your religious views are not one with gay people they feel your ideas are hateful and anti. so much for letting everyone have an opinion. All he tweeted was his religion. He never said to start violence or death to anyone. It’s his beliefs, and they are not welcome in today’s world. But if you have the opposite opinion then we are all good. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Sorry, but telling people they’re going to hell is kinda hateful regardless if it comes from a religious or secular logic.
Saying that a certain group of people will go to hell because your religion says so may not be directly inciting violence towards that group, but it sure says that you think they’re lesser people, and that causes others that agree with him to carry out violence against them.
Plus, saying that it’s fact (as he tweeted, “This is not my opinion, this is the #Truth”) is total BS. We don’t even know if there’s an afterlife, so how can anyone say that it’s fact that gay people will go to hell?
I’m really tired of people using their religion to determine how others should live their lives.
The same religions usually espouse that ALL sinners who don’t repent will go to Hell, but interestingly enough, no one seems to mind that, in other words, it’s ok to say we’re all going to die for our sins but don’t mention certain special interest groups..
Delish – The special interest groups you can not mention are LGBT or BLM, because that is racist, but if they said white people are going to hell that would have been ok.
Mr. atheist who does not believe in an after life should be ok with telling people they are going to hell, because he neither believes in heaven or hell, so if they do not exit, then what is the problem?
….to reiterate….telling LGBT or BLM to go to hell is ano-no, but telling whites they are going to hell is encouraged, and atheists aren’t going anywhere, so who gives a $hit.
Here’s the thing. You really and truly can’t be inclusive of all people when some are bigots. That’s like saying we welcome members of the KKK and Black people. Now here you have to make a choice. You can either be welcoming to members of the LGBTQ+ community or welcoming to bigots who tell them they are going to hell. Not really a hard choice. There are plenty of Christians. Not all of them tweet about gay people going to hell. So it is clear that that is not a requirement to be a Christian. Therefore that was his own personal choice. As it turns out being a mediocre pitcher, and also a bigot, doesn’t really help you to keep your roster spot. It would in fact be impossible to be inclusive of everyone. Unless you want all manner of truly reprehensive people to also be included.
Hey pal, you just blow in from stupid town?
“All he tweeted was his religion.”
No, he tweeted a selected portion from a vast piece of literature in order to spread hate and tell people they’re going to hell. He could have looked in a number of other places in his religion’s text and found good enough reason to not say anything, namely Matthew 7, essentially “Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgement ye judge, ye shall be judged.”
Challenge: Non-Christians try not to misrepresent Christian teachings and Bible verses because they’re theologically illiterate and find it politically advantageous to argue in bad faith to make religious people seem hateful
for the “crime” of having views that don’t align with the values of neoliberal corporate regime
Difficulty: Impossible
Massive rct L
I was raised Lutheran and decided as a teen that it wasn’t for me anymore due to the vast hypocrisy I saw from the Christians around me.
Challenge: Christians stop acting like they’re being persecuted in this world when they share their misrepresentation of their favored holy book.
Difficulty: Impossible
You’re saying religions should be free to promote hate? Then…doesn’t that make them hate groups by definition?
>He never said to start violence or death to anyone.
Look up “stochastic terrorism”
How would you feel if you didn’t eat breakfast this morning?
Terrymesmer- you must have been waiting for this thread a long time…..lol
Being homophobic is not part of a religion any more than being racist or Islamaphobic or anti Semitic. It is a choice. I hope he is gone from baseball for good.
Love how inclusiveness is supposed to include tolerance of intolerance. “If you’re
so tolerant, why won’t you accept the bigots and the racists? Huh? Checkmate!”
Try looking up the Paradox of Tolerance.
He was always gonna be gone after this start. They added him to the 40 man just to make this start, but they need that roster spot for Duvall now. Even if he weren’t a homophobe he wouldn’t be sticking around.
Haha, yeah, these takes are kind of amusing. He came up to start a game and get waived because they didn’t care if they lost him. He’s 32 and has pitched in 30 games with a 5.60 ERA.. None of this has to do with a tweet from a few years ago.
None of this has to do with a tweet from a few years ago.
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Presumably, but how many articles are there out there about that? The LW press, even in sports, must publish their outrage.
Thanks for having a little bit of common sense slam. It’s best just to ignore these people who are in a race to get in a culture war at any possible opportunity.
Jdgoat – the number of stores about Dermody on all the media outlets is insane. They should have all taken your advice and stuck to baseball! Masslive alone mentioned his tweets in five separate stories. It is all about the spin and the agenda, and clicks. The media needs to sell advertising.
Black Americans just want to be called Americans, and the same goes for my wife who to Asian. She says, “I am an American, not an Asian American!….” Maybe racism and bigotry would not be as big an issue if people would quit fanning the flame.
Agreed. Which is why I don’t understand why everybody is in such a rush to always get in a culture war. People like that have serious issues.
Outrage is very trendy
I don’t understand why everybody is in such a rush to always get in a culture war.
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I don’t think it is that many. The gays and trans I know couldn’t give a rat’s a$$ about the politics involved. If you took a survey, I’d bet about 100% of gays would prefer Dermody said nothing, and about 5% probably want him crucified. Probably 90% of the folks out there probably think the marketing folks at Bud Light and K-Mart are complete idiots, but most of them probably don’t spend 5 minutes thinking about it.
We just need to accept that everyone thinks differently, and we don’t need both sides to engage in a cancel-culture war.
But Americans might be too stupid for that.
If they were so concerned about this then he never would have been promoted. Article says they need a spot for Duvall, plain and simple.
Dermody didn’t pitch bad outside of two pitches to Jose Ramirez, it was Kluber who took them out of the game. This team has regressed terribly in recent weeks, hopefully Duvall can pick up where he left off because they badly need a spark
Rsox – Kluber should have gotten the DFA several weeks ago. His tank is empty. I think his average fastball velocity is not even 90 mph. He is no longer a starter and they have better relievers.
“Why does a random post about Matt Dermody have so many comments?”
“Oh”
Dermody thinks a bag of rainbow Skittles will go to hell too.