At this level within the Romy Gonzalez harm story, we don’t a lot have updates as we now have a gradual reckoning with actuality. Gonzalez injured his shoulder in late September and has not been capable of take part in baseball actions ever since. Yesterday, he spoke to the media and conceded that he most likely gained’t be able to play by Opening day. Which, yeah, duh. He can have one other medical check-in subsequent Friday, however he’s already anticipating that he nonetheless gained’t be cleared to swing a bat then, both. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
Marcelo Mayer’s restoration from offseason wrist harm hasn’t gotten a lot consideration. That started to vary, although, as soon as video games bought underway and folks began saying, “Uh, hey, the place’s Marcelo Mayer?” The reply is he’s in Fort Myers, however the Sox have intentionally slowed his hitting work in an effort to give the wrist extra time to heal and strengthen. However the workforce has now introduced that he’ll make his spring debut on Friday. (Ian Browne, MLB.com)
Willson Contreras is wholesome, fortunately, and he’s already enjoying and hitting bombs in a Crimson Sox uniform. Let’s residence he stays wholesome, too, as a result of he’s at the moment the largest energy risk within the Sox lineup. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)
With the entire consideration Mayer has obtained since being drafted fourth total, fellow center infield prospect Mikey Romero has flown below the radar a bit. However he’s now in his first huge league spring coaching and he thinks you’re sleeping on him. (Rob Bradford, WEEI)
Actually, you don’t must work too exhausting to come back with some eventualities the place Romero finally ends up getting extra enjoying time with the massive league membership this yr than simply about anybody expects. Alex Cora actually sounds intrigued by him, and needs to get a great lengthy take a look at how he does enjoying second base this spring. (Tim Healey, Boston Globe)
And talking of younger guys getting a run at second base in spring coaching, right here’s a take a look at how Kristian Campbell tried to retool his swing this offseason. (Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic)
