Good point, he must have had an Xray already on site. But sometimes MRI's pick up things that Xrays don't.
Hopefully that means we’ll hear it confirmed as a bone bruise. Still would not be surprised to see X hit the DL.
To me, it looked like his ankle locked up on his last step before going into his slide. Hopefully, I'm wrong as that would most likely mean his achilles.
Exactly. A break isn’t even necessarily the worst case scenario, not all sprains are created equal. Depending on the position of the ankle, certain types of sprains can be more painful than some fractures.
I’d say that’s worth a lot given the lack of info as of now. Hope Ravech is well sourced and his sources are in the know.
Well, he's from Newton, a lifelong Sox fan, and been in baseball broadcasting for 25 years. I'd reckon he's got some solid Sox sources. This is good news.
If the Red Sox were worried and scrambling to sign or trade for someone thats exactly the kind of information they would plant anonymously.
Why would they be trying to make a trade or sign someone? Bogaerts will be back, whether it's in two days, two weeks or two months. Lin and Holt can cover in the meantime.
They are also on the verge of getting Pedroia back and could slide Nunez over to short until Bogaerts is ready.
The point is that they have options and should not be talking about trades or signing someone...we don't even know if Bogaerts tweaked an ankle or something more serious but the sky is falling.
Cora had a short stint on Baseball tonight I think Ravech has been there since the start.
Given last year's approach to health, I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to tough it out and instead perform poorly for 3 months as the injury lingers.
I still haven't figured out how BROCKHOLT fits on this team better than Marrero. Even if/when he's fully healthy, his skill set is nearly identically redundant to Nunez's (let alone Swihart's, Lin's, or Hernandez's). The only thing he really offers is that he bats left handed, except neither he nor Nunez have a large split over their careers. And with a Hanley/Moreland tandem at 1B, Holt is, at best, third up to be a PH on any given day. Coupled with the fact that Holt is making $1M+ more this year, I don't see how keeping him over Marrero's defense at the two positions where it's weakest on the team made any sense.
This scenario is exactly why we should have kept Marrero over Holt. If you lose an infielder (3B, SS, 2B) to injury, at least you have a very good defender at the position with Marrero. With Holt playing everyday, unless he’s hitting he’s a liability to the team. Let’s hope worst case scenario for X is a 10-day DL stint.
1) I don't remember bad defense from Holt. Could you show me the numbers?
I believe this covered in the marrero trade thread - DD tried to shop Holt and had no takers
Right, but the Sox traded Marrero for cash or a PTBNL. They could have just saved cash (almost $2M) by non-tendering Holt and keeping Marrero.
Fair enough. Honestly, I assume he'd be at SS (because can you have Nunez at SS with stone cement hands AND little range?) and he doesn't have a very meaningful sample size of innings over there - only 214 innings, covering 2014, 15 and 16. His UZR over that time is 6.2, but likely meaningless for several reasons: he's older, his sample is tiny, and he lost an entire year last season, which cannot have helped. I think by biggest issue is, in a vacuum, Brock is a perfectly lovely utility guy who plugs in at SS in every once in awhile. But without Pedroia, we're not in a vacuum. Eduardo Nunez is the guy to his left (or right, I suppose), and he is TERRIBLE defensively. And I think the two of them together as a long term solution (which cross fingers the Sox don't need to worry about) is not good. Holt cannot make up for his defensive short-comings with a bat the way X can, or even the way Nuney can (and I'm not sold on Nuney being able to, either, frankly.)
