Rusney Castillo Conundrum

[soxhop411]

Ryan Hannable ‏@RyanHannable  32s32 seconds ago
Report: Rusney Castillo going on disabled list with shoulder injury http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2015/04/14/report-rusney-castillo-going-on-disabled-list-with-shoulder-injury/ … via @WEEI
 
 

 
According to Alex Speier of the Boston Globe, outfielder Rusney Castillo will be going on the disabled list.
After diving for a ball and leaving Saturday’s game while playing for Triple-A Pawtucket, Castillo returned to Boston on Monday to be examined further. The report says he will be placed on the disabled list “to let the injury rest and heel.”
Castillo didn’t make the 25-man Opening Day roster as the Red Sox currently have Hanley Ramirez, Mookie Betts, Shane Victorino, Daniel Nava and Allen Craig in their outfield. Castillo was 5-for-12 in the three games he’s played so far this season with Pawtucket.
Manager John Farrell is expected to offer more details when he meets the media this afternoon prior to Tuesday’s game.
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[Otis Foster]

 
Ryan Hannable ‏@RyanHannable  32s32 seconds ago
Report: Rusney Castillo going on disabled list with shoulder injury http://fullcount.weei.com/sports/boston/baseball/red-sox/2015/04/14/report-rusney-castillo-going-on-disabled-list-with-shoulder-injury/ … via @WEEI
 
 
 
 

 
I'm getting a nasty feeling that our prize FA catch is injury-prone (or jinxed).

 

[soxhop411]

http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2015/04/14/red-sox-outfielder-rusney-castillo-headed/Mi06fVSd4ZbEyDFvNd4KMI/story.html?event=event25
 

 
Red Sox outfielder Rusney Castillo, after a Monday exam in Boston on a shoulder that he injured in an attempt to make a diving play on Saturday, will land on the disabled list to let the injury rest and heal. Manager John Farrell is expected to offer more precise details regarding the nature of his shoulder injury later Tuesday, but multiple major league sources describe Castillo’s prognosis as encouraging, suggesting that worst-case scenarios (such as surgery to repair a tear) appear unlikely to come to fruition at this time.
Castillo was off to a solid start in Triple A Pawtucket, going 5-for-12 with a double, walk, and steal in the first three games of the minor league season before his injury. In his brief time since signing a seven-year, $72.5 million deal with the Red Sox last August, he’s been a consistently productive player who has nonetheless had a difficult time staying on the field due to a succession of health issues.

more at the link

 

[DaveRoberts'Shoes]

Hopefully just an AC joint sprain - he'd be back to full speed in a month or so

 

[mabrowndog]

Right or left shoulder? None of the reports I've seen specify it.

 

[reggiecleveland]

 
I'm getting a nasty feeling that our prize FA catch is injury-prone (or jinxed).

 
I am hoping it is just a matter of being off for a year, then ramping it up in a effort to get to the show. He seems to get his timing back quickly after coming back, so there's that I guess.

 

[Darnell's Son]

Right or left shoulder? None of the reports I've seen specify it.

Left

 
 
Castillo, who jammed his left shoulder after making a diving catch for Triple-A Pawtucket on Saturday night, will be examined in Boston on Monday, the Boston Globe reports.

 

[pokey_reese]

At least this should give the team enough time to get a good read on what Victorino/Craig can offer, without feeling rushed by Castillo killing it in AAA.

 

[RG33]

At least this should give the team enough time to get a good read on what Victorino/Craig can offer, without feeling rushed by Castillo killing it in AAA.

This is a really good organizational problem to have.

 

[Rovin Romine]

JBJ's swinging the bat decently.  So we still have depth in AAA, should Vic/Craig continue to stall.   SSS, but it's odd that the guys with the lowest upside during the off-season (Nava/JBJ) are currently producing.  

 

[nvalvo]

JBJ's swinging the bat decently.  So we still have depth in AAA, should Vic/Craig continue to stall.   SSS, but it's odd that the guys with the lowest upside during the off-season (Nava/JBJ) are currently producing.  

 
More than decently, I'd say. 
 
What I'm watching is his K rate, because that was the major flaw in his game in 2014, and because it stabilizes quickly (100 pa). I would like to follow his swinging strike percentage, but I don't know where to get those numbers for the minors. Do they exist? 
 
2013 (AAA): 374 PA, 20.1% K rate.
2013 (MLB): 107 PA, 29.0% K rate, 11.2% swinging strikes.
2014 (AAA): 69 PA, 26.1% K rate.
2014 (MLB): 423 PA, 28.6% K rate, 11.7% swinging strikes.
2015 (AAA): 28 PA, 14.3% K rate. 
 
He's literally cut his K rate in half. 

 

[E5 Yaz]

KyleBrasseur Kyle Brasseur
Rusney Castillo just showed up in the Red Sox clubhouse. Reports from earlier today have him headed to DL with shoulder injury
 
Just posting this for the sake of passing it along. If he was meeting with the Boston doctors about his shoulder, showing up at Fenway is no big deal

 

[Snodgrass'Muff]

If that's sustainable he could end up the best centerfielder they've got. I love Mookie, but JBJ is a better defender, so if the bat ends up close (getting way ahead of ourselves... It's a big if), they could end up with that Betts/Bradley/Castillo left to right alignment long term after all.

Edit: was responding to the k rate being cut in half.

 

[soxhop411]

@Sean_McAdam: OF Rusney Castillo has inflammation in his right shoulder, but no structural damage. Will need a couple weeks of rest and rehab.

 

[NJ Fan]

Color me confused: L or R?

 

[MikeM]

This is a really good organizational problem to have.

 
I don't know if i'd go that far. Given we are currently down the guy who should have been starting in the first place, and the 2 potential replacements who would probably be the better organizational fit for any "give the team enough time to get a good read on what they can offer" silver lining (Craig/JBJ) are still stuck behind Victorino (who's struggling out the gate).  
 
Get well soon Rusney.

 

[Sampo Gida]

Always worried about labrum injuries on those kinds of plays.  Probably left shoulder so this would affect him more at the plate.  Right shoulder obviously could hamper throwing.  Castillo is playing with more weight (muscle) than he did in Cuba (about 20 lbs) so this may be a reason for some of his injury issues (or not)

 

[radsoxfan]

Agree with DRS…. hopefully low grade AC sprain.  Shouldn't be a long term problem.
 
On a tangent, I'm not sure why the AC ligaments (and other non-fracture/non-surgical injuries) don't seem to count as "structures".  Castillo fell, has inflammation, and needs a few weeks off.  He damaged some structures. Stop discriminating against the AC ligaments!

 

[DJnVa]

If that's sustainable he could end up the best centerfielder they've got. I love Mookie, but JBJ is a better defender, so if the bat ends up close (getting way ahead of ourselves... It's a big if), they could end up with that Betts/Bradley/Castillo left to right alignment long term after all.

Edit: was responding to the k rate being cut in half.

 
Yeah, that cart is about 6 miles in front of the horse.
 
With less than 30 PA, if one more ump had rung him up this week and then a strike out in his next AB and he's right where he usually is.

 

[Rasputin]

If that's sustainable he could end up the best centerfielder they've got. I love Mookie, but JBJ is a better defender, so if the bat ends up close (getting way ahead of ourselves... It's a big if), they could end up with that Betts/Bradley/Castillo left to right alignment long term after all.

Edit: was responding to the k rate being cut in half.

I really want this to happen. Betts, Bradley, Castillo would be the most dynamic outfield since I don't know when.

If Marrero is on the bench, we'll be able to put out a late inning defense where C, SS, 2B, and the entire outfield aren't just good enough defensively, but are are at least very good and in some cases, superlative.

I would like to think Papi comes back and Ramirez takes to first really well.

The defense would be stellar. The lineup would hammer out runs like you wouldn't believe.

 

[HriniakPosterChild]

I really want this to happen. Betts, Bradley, Castillo would be the most dynamic outfield since I don't know when.

1975?

 

[Rasputin]

1975?

I was four, so don't remember, but bbref tells me Rice, Lynn, and Evans combined for 23 steals. I'm pretty sure a full season of Mookie and Castillo would obliterate that mark.

And wasn't Rice not so much with the good D?

It's going to be a fun decade.

 

[Soxfan in Fla]

I really want this to happen. Betts, Bradley, Castillo would be the most dynamic outfield since I don't know when.

If Marrero is on the bench, we'll be able to put out a late inning defense where C, SS, 2B, and the entire outfield aren't just good enough defensively, but are are at least very good and in some cases, superlative.

I would like to think Papi comes back and Ramirez takes to first really well.

The defense would be stellar. The lineup would hammer out runs like you wouldn't believe.

The range on that OF group would be insane.

 

[phenweigh]

I was four, so don't remember, but bbref tells me Rice, Lynn, and Evans combined for 23 steals. I'm pretty sure a full season of Mookie and Castillo would obliterate that mark.

And wasn't Rice not so much with the good D?

It's going to be a fun decade.

 
I saw Steve Buckley on CSN this morning with the opinion that Hanley (so far) is worse than Manny on D and Jim Rice was under rated as a defender.  He didn't have great range, but had good instincts and wasn't error prone.  I agree with Steve's observations on Rice. 

 

[Eddie Jurak]

 
I saw Steve Buckley on CSN this morning with the opinion that Hanley (so far) is worse than Manny on D and Jim Rice was under rated as a defender.  He didn't have great range, but had good instincts and wasn't error prone.  I agree with Steve's observations on Rice. 

I'm not overly troubled by that comment on Hanley. He's played the OF for one spring. No reason to think he won't get better with experience.

 

[Saints Rest]

I'm not overly troubled by that comment on Hanley. He's played the OF for one spring. No reason to think he won't get better with experience.

Agreed. Hanley's had to deal with Philly in the cold and rain; The Toilet, whose LF is HUGE; and Fenway/The Monster.  I don't think we'll be talking about him as the next coming of Yaz, but I bet he'll end up in the area of non-descript fielding LF's, average and un-noteworthy.  

 

[SoxJox]

Color me confused: L or R?

This report says right, and the accompanying picture (I haven't seen a video anywhere) suggests right as well.

 

[Darnell's Son]

That picture is misleading.
 
From the caption of that photo:

 
 
(Fort Myers, FL, 03/29/15) Rusney Castillo catches a fly ball into foul territory hit by Coty Blanchard in the 10th inning of the Red Sox verses Rays game at JetBlue Park. Sunday March 29, 2015. Staff photo by John Wilcox.

He supposedly hurt his shoulder in a game at Pawtucket, not spring training.

 

[SoxJox]

That picture is misleading.
 
From the caption of that photo:
He supposedly hurt his shoulder in a game at Pawtucket, not spring training.

My apologies.  I assumed that the accompanying picture would have been directly related to the article reporting the injury.  I did not notice the Fort Meyers tag.  Still, the article says "right", although it appears from other posts above that is not definitive.  Sheesh...the media (and some laziness on my part as well).

 

[Al Zarilla]

 
I saw Steve Buckley on CSN this morning with the opinion that Hanley (so far) is worse than Manny on D and Jim Rice was under rated as a defender.  He didn't have great range, but had good instincts and wasn't error prone.  I agree with Steve's observations on Rice. 

 I don't remember how good Rice was in left., but when Yaz had to play LF i n the post season because Rice got the broken hand, it was like night to day. Or, maybe Yaz just had a bunch of balls hit close/far enough away to give him the opportunity to be stellar.  Or, he found the fountain of youth for those 10 games. And Buckley should know enough to give Hanley a chance. Buckley probably never shagged a fly in his life. 

 

[lexrageorge]

In 1975, Yaz was probably the better left fielder still.  But Rice wasn't terrible in the field; he never had great range, but that wasn't such a big deal in Fenway's left field.
 
Buckley doesn't know what he's talking about regarding Hanley.

 

[Darnell's Son]

My apologies.  I assumed that the accompanying picture would have been directly related to the article reporting the injury.  I did not notice the Fort Meyers tag.  Still, the article says "right", although it appears from other posts above that is not definitive.  Sheesh...the media (and some laziness on my part as well).

No need for apologies. It is misleading and a bit annoying.

 

[soxhop411]

Pete Abraham ‏@PeteAbe  6m6 minutes ago
Rusney Castillo (on minor league DL) could DH for Pawtucket on Wednesday.

 

[Plympton91]

Pete Abraham ‏@PeteAbe   [URL="https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/591708620854829056

https://twitter.com/PeteAbe/status/591708620854829056"]6m6

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Rusney Castillo (on minor league DL) could DH for Pawtucket on Wednesday.

That's good news. The RF job in Boston is wide open. I'm about ready to give it to Holt for the time being, but a healthy Rusney should be there as soon as he exists.

 

[Soxfan in Fla]

I think you give him a week to 10 days in AAA to get his timing down then bring him up.

 

[soxhop411]

@JMastrodonato: Farrell shut down the idea of Rusney Castillo joining the Red Sox anytime soon. Said he needs significant at-bats in AAA.

 

[uncannymanny]

How many significant at bats does he need?

 

[Harry Hooper]

How many significant at bats does he need?

 
No number will be given. Farrell's comment is more of a pre-emptive strike against speculation or a countdown rather than something that means a lot.

 

[Yelling At Clouds]

How many significant at bats does he need?

 
Enough for them to figure out what they're doing with Craig

 

[Al Zarilla]

How many significant at bats does he need?

Lebenty leben.

 

[uncannymanny]

I guess my joke wasn't obvious enough.

 

[NDame616]

I guess my joke wasn't obvious enough.

I got it.
 
Of course Farrell will say that now.What do we expect him to say? "As soon as Castillo is ready, we fully expect him to take Victorino's place"
 
If Castillo keeps hitting in AAA and Victorino doesn't hit in the bigs, it'll work itself out. 

 

[Hee Sox Choi]

0 for 4 today with a K in AAA.

 

[GaryPeters71]

This is getting ridiculous:
 
Jason Mastrodonato ‏@JMastrodonato  5m
Rusney Castillo left AAA game early after possible injury stealing second base, according to @alexspeier

 

[E5 Yaz]

This is getting ridiculous:
 
Jason Mastrodonato ‏@JMastrodonato  5m
Rusney Castillo left AAA game early after possible injury stealing second base, according to @alexspeier

 
Speier says it looked precautionary. Was down for a bit, then walked off on his own with trainer

 

[E5 Yaz]

Tim Britton @TimBritton · 27m27 minutes ago


Castillo's three innings today included a hit, a baserunning gaffe, an ill-advised dive to allow a run to score and an injury.

 

[grimshaw]

 

Tim Britton @TimBritton · 27m27 minutes ago


Castillo's three innings today included a hit, a baserunning gaffe, an ill-advised dive to allow a run to score and an injury.

 

In other words - still a RF upgrade.

 

[strek1]

 

Tim Britton @TimBritton · 27m27 minutes ago


Castillo's three innings today included a hit, a baserunning gaffe, an ill-advised dive to allow a run to score and an injury.

 

 So much for the saviour.

 

[GaryPeters71]

Scott Lauber ‏@ScottLauber  2m2 minutes ago
Mild ankle sprain for Rusney Castillo today in Pawtucket, Farrell said. Exit was "precautionary" #RedSox

 

[Dahabenzapple2]

In other words - still a RF upgrade.

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