{"id":17051,"date":"2025-05-10T22:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17051\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T22:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:49:09","slug":"red-sox-place-romy-gonzalez-on-10-day-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/17051\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Place Romy Gonzalez On 10-Day Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve placed infielder Romy Gonzalez<\/a> on a the 10-day injured list due to a left quad contusion. Infielder Nick Sogard<\/a> was recalled from Triple-A to replace Gonzalez on the active roster.<\/p>\n

The loss of Gonzalez is particularly devastating for Boston given that he\u2019s been filling in for Triston Casas<\/a> at first base after the latter underwent season-ending knee surgery. The 28-year-old has hit quite well in that fill-in capacity, slashing .308\/.362\/.423 in 17 games for the Red Sox this year. Gonzalez had been handling first base as part of a tandem with Abraham Toro<\/a> in Casas\u2019s absence, in part due to the refusal<\/a> of Rafael Devers<\/a> to play first base. That refusal and Devers\u2019s subsequent comments expressing frustration with chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a> for bringing up the possibility of a move to first base after Devers had already been moved from third base to DH this spring has ignited plenty of public scrutiny that eventually led to a meeting<\/a> between Devers and club owner John Henry.<\/p>\n

It still seems as though there\u2019s no plans to have Devers begin taking grounders at first, much less play the position in a game. As noted by MassLive\u2019s Chris Cotillo<\/a>, manager Alex Cora<\/a> commented on the first base situation with reporters earlier today.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s DHing today\u2026 We\u2019ll keep talking about stuff. We\u2019ll keep looking for alternatives, with what we need to do to keep getting better,\u201d Cora said of Devers, as relayed by Cotillo. \u201cOf course, we\u2019ve got Romy, we\u2019ve got Toro and now we\u2019ve got (Sogard). That\u2019s the route we\u2019re going to have right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Cora name-checked Gonzalez as an option at first, he\u2019ll be unavailable for at least the next ten days. That leaves Toro and Sogard as the most likely options to handle first in the meantime. Outfielder Rob Refsnyder<\/a> has some first base experience and could be another option, but Cora has expressed hesitance about taking him out of the outfield mix in the past and Cotillo relays<\/a> that the veteran is currently dealing with back spasms that leave his status as day-to-day.<\/p>\n

The combination of Toro and Sogard at first base isn\u2019t exactly an inspiring one. Toro is a career .219\/.283\/.350 hitter in the majors who has gone just 2-for-14 with two strikeouts and zero walks or extra base hits at the big league level to this point in the year. Sogard, meanwhile, got his only big league action last year when the Red Sox leaned on him as a utility man in 31 games. During that brief look in the majors, Sogard hit a below-average .273\/.326\/.325 with a 29.1% strikeout rate. Gonzalez\u2019s eventual return should help matters, and fortunately the nature of his injury does not seem severe enough that an extended absence should be expected.<\/p>\n

Even so, one must assume that the Red Sox are looking at other options given the worrisome state of first base. If Devers is still not an option to get work in at first base, perhaps the team will be able to swing a minor trade to add a depth option like DJ Stewart<\/a>, Dominic Smith<\/a>, or Joey Meneses<\/a> who\u2019s not currently on a 40-man roster. None of those names would be especially impactful, but the fact that major trades at this point in the calendar tend to be exceedingly rare figures to limit Boston\u2019s external options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox announced this afternoon that they\u2019ve placed infielder Romy Gonzalez on a the 10-day injured list…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,8531,863,89,2543,1083],"class_list":{"0":"post-17051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-nick-sogard","14":"tag-rafael-devers","15":"tag-red-sox","16":"tag-redsox","17":"tag-romy-gonzalez"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114485983365400035","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}