Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas is nothing if not pragmatic.<\/p>\n
Casas has been tremendous when healthy, slashing .241\/.358\/.452 with 45 home runs and 120 RBIs across up-and-down stretches that include only 251 games played from 2022 to 2025.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s just that whole \u201cwhen healthy\u201d part that really throws a wrench in things\u2026<\/p>\n
Casas has missed more than 80 games in three of his first four seasons in Boston, suffering an odd rib cartilage issue and a season-ending rupture of his left patellar tendon that halted momentum across two different seasons. Boston just can\u2019t rely on him given his history, which is completely understandable<\/a> to the now-veteran first baseman.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely believe in my abilities and think they\u2019re up there with the best in the game. I\u2019ve just got to be on the field, stay healthy and get that sample size,\u201d Casas said at \u201cFenway Fest\u201d on Saturday, as shared by MassLive\u2019s Chris Cotillo. \u201cI\u2019ve had good stretches as a major league player. I\u2019ve had mostly bad ones. I see and know the habits of the best and I think I\u2019m right there with them. I haven\u2019t shown it on the field, but mentally, I think that I still have that potential of being an All-Star-caliber player.\u201d<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n Will he have the opportunity to show that this season?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n The Red Sox essentially went ahead with finding his replacement, completing a trade<\/a> for former St. Louis Cardinals first baseman Willson Contreras.<\/p>\n Casas gets it.<\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cAs of right now, the way it is, he\u2019s a better player than me and has been for his entire career,\u201d Casas said. \u201cTo upgrade at a position that has been deficient for the last two years is exactly what the team needed.\u201d<\/p>\n Boston will be better off for having made the move, as it now has multiple options<\/a> at first base and designated hitter, with the logjam in the outfield<\/a> further establishing depth at that latter position. Casas will be given an opportunity to find at-bats, and given his current outlook, there shouldn\u2019t be much doubt about whether or not he\u2019s looking to take advantage,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas is nothing if not pragmatic. Casas has been tremendous when healthy,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":508646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,4,1946,409],"class_list":{"0":"post-514134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-triston-casas","11":"tag-willson-contreras"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115873488986277453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514134","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=514134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}