{"id":613333,"date":"2026-03-08T13:38:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613333\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T13:38:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T13:38:17","slug":"red-sox-news-links-the-romy-gonzalez-injury-updates-get-worse-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/613333\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox News &#038; Links: The Romy Gonzalez injury updates get worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">I\u2019m not going to pretend I\u2019m a doctor. I\u2019m not to going to act like I know more about Romy Gonzalez\u2019s body than the highly paid and likely excellent medical staff working in Fort Myers and on Ipswitch Street. I\u2019m not here to second guess medical advice \u2014 I\u2019m sure there was a very solid reason why \u201cwait it out\u201d made sense. But I will say that I am not remotely surprised by how this has developed. After arriving at Spring Training with a shoulder that was still bothering him after an initial injury that occurred way back in September, Romy Gonzalez is now meeting with an orthopedic surgeon to determine whether surgery is necessary. Even if he he does elect surgery, he doesn\u2019t think he would miss the whole season, but as of now there is absolutely no timetable for his return. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/2026\/03\/07\/sports\/red-sox-romy-gonzalez-shoulder-injury\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:(Tim Healey, Boston Globe);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">(Tim Healey, Boston Globe)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Romy injury is a big blow to the lineup, particularly against lefties. But it does open up some opportunities. Unfortunately, though, it doesn\u2019t do much to help the outfield\/DH logjam, because Masataka Yoshida looks like he\u2019s ready to hit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">One player who is better positioned to take advantage of Romy\u2019s absence, though, is infielder Andruw Monasterio, who is one of four under-the-radar players who could end up making an impact for the Sox in 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7089940\/2026\/03\/06\/red-sox-spring-training-standout-players\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:(Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">(Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Here\u2019s a guy whose shoulder is definitely not injured. Connelly Early\u2019s fastball is averaging 95.3 MPH so far this spring, after averaging 94 MPH last year. The book on Early has usually been that, while he has a complete arsenal, he doesn\u2019t necessarily have elite stuff. It looks like he\u2019s trying to rectify that. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/sports\/2026\/03\/red-sox-rookie-continues-to-show-impressive-velocity-in-scoreless-start-kristian-campbell-homers.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:(Christopher Smith, MassLive);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">(Christopher Smith, MassLive)<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Though after two strong starts in a row \u2014 and two starts in a row without issuing a walk \u2014 some are now saying that the fifth spot in the rotation is Johan Oviedo\u2019s to lose. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/redsox\/news\/johan-oviedo-making-strong-case-for-red-sox-fifth-starter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:(CJ Haddad, MLB.com);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">(CJ Haddad, MLB.com)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I\u2019m not going to pretend I\u2019m a doctor. I\u2019m not to going to act like I know more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[7583,5,48,36543,5833,5416,792,4,1083,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-613333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-andruw-monasterio","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-connelly-early","12":"tag-jared-carrabis","13":"tag-johan-oviedo","14":"tag-masataka-yoshida","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-romy-gonzalez","17":"tag-toronto-blue-jays"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116193834319843959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613333","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=613333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}