While Sonny Gray was able to return after the minimum amount of time on the injured list and the club hopes Roman Anthony will be able to do the same, Garrett Crochet will likely wind up needing a little longer.<\/p>\n
Crochet, who was placed on the 15-day IL with left shoulder inflammation effective April 26, has resumed throwing from 60 feet and is continuing to make progress in his strength program, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust continue to ramp him up, he did throw yesterday and he said it was the best he\u2019s felt throwing,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cSo we\u2019re still strengthening, we\u2019re still throwing and we\u2019re increasing intensity as he goes. So we\u2019re just going to continue that track until we feel the strength numbers are where they\u2019re supposed to be, he feels good and he can ramp up more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Crochet will be eligible to come off the IL on Tuesday, but unlike with Gray, who Tracy said was clearly on track to return after the 15-day minimum from early on, Crochet\u2019s situation is different and they want to make sure he\u2019s fully built back up before activating him.<\/p>\n
As far as whether or not Crochet will need to make a rehab assignment, Tracy said that will depend on how long he\u2019s out.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s hard to say, I think that\u2019s going to end up depending on how long he\u2019s on there. Like Sonny, he got better quick and we knew pretty quickly it was going to be the minimum,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cHe was still throwing throughout the duration of that, at least to an intensity where the arm keeps moving, so we felt like hey if we get him in a live BP I think we\u2019ll be fine, and he felt that way too. I think with Garrett it depends on how long does this go and do we feel it\u2019s been long enough where he should probably go face hitters and build up a little bit before he\u2019s here.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for fellow left-hander Ranger Suarez, who left his last start with right hamstring tightness, Tracy said he\u2019s still progressing but the club hasn\u2019t decided when or if he\u2019ll make his next start.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to keep kicking it down the line to see where he\u2019s at,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cWe\u2019ll decide obviously as we get into tomorrow, we\u2019re going to have to make a decision on is he going to start on that day, are we going to push it? But he\u2019s still making improvements.\u201d<\/p>\n
Extra innings<\/p>\n
The Red Sox haven\u2019t decided whether they\u2019ll use an opener again for Brayan Bello\u2019s next start, Tracy said. The right-hander allowed one run over seven innings after coming out of the bullpen following lefty opener Jovani Moran last time out, a significant improvement after Bello failed to finish the fourth inning in his prior two starts. \u2026 Tracy said right-hander Justin Slaten (right oblique strain) came out of his latest rehab outing feeling good and they\u2019ll determine his next steps in the coming days. \u2026 Newly called up bench player Mickey Gasper will not be a candidate to play the outfield, Tracy said, and if the Red Sox need someone to play out there in a pinch Andruw Monasterio will be the first option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Sonny Gray was able to return after the minimum amount of time on the injured list and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2389],"tags":[7583,42,5,48,5172,15690,922,139,54,3211,1093,3212,4,90,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-693008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston-astros","8":"tag-andruw-monasterio","9":"tag-astros","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-boston-red-sox","12":"tag-brayan-bello","13":"tag-chad-tracy","14":"tag-garrett-crochet","15":"tag-houston","16":"tag-houston-astros","17":"tag-houstonastros","18":"tag-justin-slaten","19":"tag-mickey-gasper","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-ranger-suarez","22":"tag-red-sox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116535593748456776","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693008","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=693008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}