Boston Red Sox
Gonzalez is anticipated to overlook at the very least the primary two months of the 2026 season.
The Purple Sox are going to be with out one in every of their prime platoon bats for at the very least the beginning of the 2026 season.
According to Tim Healey of The Boston Globe, Purple Sox infielder Romy Gonzalez has undergone an “arthroscopic debridement” process on his left shoulder and can miss at the very least the primary two months of the season.
Boston positioned Gonzalez on the 60-day IL on Thursday, with MassLive’s Chris Cotillo reporting that Gonzalez’s process was extra of a “clean-up” than a serious surgical procedure, which may have put his complete 2026 marketing campaign in jeopardy.
“There was worry heading into Gonzalez’s appointment that the prognosis might be a lot worse,” Cotillo wrote.
Gonzalez was a useful participant on Alex Cora’s roster in 2025, batting .305 with 9 homers and 53 RBIs, and sporting an .826 OPS in 96 video games with Boston. He was primarily utilized in a platoon function, routinely teeing off in opposition to left-handed pitching.
He initially injured his shoulder in the course of the ultimate days of the 2025 season and has not been cleared for baseball actions to this point throughout spring coaching.
Gonzalez was anticipated to be a Swiss Military Knife for the Purple Sox in 2026, probably serving as a platoon bat with Marcelo Mayer at second base. He additionally noticed reps at first base and third base in the course of the 2025 marketing campaign.
With Gonzalez sidelined, the Purple Sox bolstered their infield depth in the course of the winter, including versatile items like Isiah Kiner-Falefa, Andruw Monasteri, and Caleb Durbin.
Purple Sox signal lefty reliever
With two weeks to go till Opening Day, the Purple Sox are bolstering their bullpen.
Boston introduced on Thursday that it signed veteran southpaw Danny Coulombe to a one-year contract.
The 36-year-old lefty is coming off an attention-grabbing 2025 season cut up between the Twins and Rangers. In whole, he posted a 2.30 ERA throughout 55 appearances — hanging out 43 batters over 43 innings of labor.
He was dominant throughout his time with the Twins, sporting a 1.16 ERA over 40 appearances. However, in his 15 video games with Texas, his ERA ballooned to five.25.
Boston might be banking on the veteran regaining his Minnesota type in 2026, because the Purple Sox desperately wanted one other lefty of their bullpen.
Past Aroldis Chapman, the one different lefty in Boston’s projected bullpen earlier than Thursday’s signing was Jovani Moran, who solely appeared in two video games final season.
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