FORT MYERS, Fla. — Less than 24 hours after Cora introduced that Brayan Bello is shut down for the weekend with forearm soreness, the younger pitcher provided an replace of his personal.
Through translator Carlos Villoria Benítez, Bello defined, “I didn’t feel any pain. I just felt tight, and I really didn’t want to force it.”
And there’s completely no purpose to power it when it’s the primary week of spring coaching, he’s competing for a spot within the rotation, and Pedro Martinez thinks he can win a Cy Young award at some point.
As of Friday, the Red Sox weren’t planning on having any imaging performed, and Cora anticipated that Bello would resume his throwing program on Monday.
Red Sox lifers
In the final three years, the Red Sox parted methods with two gamers who may’ve been Red Sox for all times, and stored one. Mookie Betts and Xander Bogaerts are gone, Rafael Devers is right here to remain. How many different homegrown gamers will observe the latter?
It was on Cora’s thoughts when he requested Dustin Pedroia to come back to Fort Myers for the weekend. Even although Pedroia’s profession was reduce quick, he’s a Red Sox lifer, from the 2004 draft till what turned out to be his closing recreation in 2019. In in the present day’s recreation, taking part in for one franchise from begin to end is uncommon, and doing so from the draft much more so.
“This whole thing about playing with one franchise, I believe the only guy that is gonna do here is Raffy (Devers) probably. Well, the young guys maybe, but for sure it’s Raffy.”
How a lot will Bogaerts’ absence be felt this 12 months?
“Yeah, he’s been here for a while,” Pedroia mentioned, “But that’s how the sport is, you know, any sport. You know, you lose guys, or guys go somewhere else. That doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world. You gotta find a way to, somebody to fill that role and play.”
Blast from the previous
Jose Canseco wasn’t with the Red Sox for very lengthy, however he’s nonetheless no fan of Yankees. Two, particularly, are often talked about in his eclectic tweets: Alex ‘A-Rod’ Rodriguez and Aaron Judge.
Of his 17-year main league profession, Canseco solely spent the ’95 and ’96 seasons in Boston. By his personal admission, it was a robust profession tainted by performance-enhancing substances.
Nowadays, he’s often on-line, and just lately, has challenged Judge to a hitting contest. “Also Ryan judge I doubt you could even come close to hitting a softball further than I can I may even be able to hit a baseball further than you can,” Canseco wrote.
Twitter customers received a kick out of the misnomer, particularly because it got here on the heels of MLB Network contributor Jon Heyman tweeting that ‘Arson Judge’ was signing with the Giants in December.
Messing with the child
Speaking of misnomers, the Red Sox held an Open House at JetBlue Park on Saturday, welcoming followers for a day of face-painting, balloon animals, inflatable slides within the outfield, $1 sizzling canines, and participant autographs.
According to Chris Henrique of Beyond the Monster, Triston Casas had just a little enjoyable of his personal, telling a fan who requested for his autograph however didn’t know his final title, that his title was Dalbec.
Source: www.bostonherald.com