{"id":197530,"date":"2025-09-03T18:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T18:50:08","slug":"red-sox-to-place-roman-anthony-on-injured-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/197530\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox To Place Roman Anthony On Injured List"},"content":{"rendered":"

Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony<\/a><\/strong> exited yesterday\u2019s game due to soreness in his left oblique. He\u2019ll be placed on the 10-day injured list, manager Alex Cora<\/a><\/strong> revealed in a radio appearance on WEEI today<\/a>. Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com reported<\/a> not long beforehand that Anthony was likely to be placed on the IL and that the Sox would recall utilityman Nick Sogard<\/a><\/strong> from Triple-A Worcester to take his spot on the roster.<\/p>\n

Cora didn\u2019t provide a timetable for Anthony specifically, speaking instead in general terms while pointing out that oblique strains often take four to six weeks to heal. Obviously, there\u2019s a chance that Anthony\u2019s regular season is over.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s terrible timing for the Red Sox (not that there\u2019s a \u201cgood\u201d time to lose a player of Anthony\u2019s caliber). Boston is 2.5 games back of the division-leading Blue Jays in the American League East. They\u2019re veritable playoff locks by now, but the Red Sox have a real chance of moving to the top of the division and potentially securing a bye through the first round of postseason play. Attempting to do so without Anthony will make that task far more daunting.<\/p>\n

Since making his big league debut on June 9, Anthony has been Boston\u2019s best offensive performer. Through 303 plate appearances, he\u2019s hitting .292\/.396\/.463 with eight homers, 18 doubles, a triple, a 13.2% walk rate and four stolen bases (in five tries). The resulting 138 wRC+ indicates that Anthony has been 38% better than an average hitter at the plate. Among Red Sox hitters, only newcomer Nathaniel Lowe<\/a><\/strong> has a better mark, and that comes in a sample of just 41 plate appearances.<\/p>\n

Further complicating matters for the Sox is that Anthony will join Wilyer Abreu<\/a><\/strong> on the injured list. He\u2019s been out since mid-August with a calf strain and doesn\u2019t appear close to a return. Cora said just last night that Abreu has yet to even resume running (link via the Boston Globe\u2019s Tim Healey<\/a>). That leaves Jarren Duran<\/a><\/strong> and Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a><\/strong> in two of the three outfield spots, and a rotating cast of characters to mix and match in the third. Masataka Yoshida<\/a><\/strong>, Rob Refsnyder<\/a><\/strong>, Nate Eaton<\/a><\/strong> and the aforementioned Sogard are among the possibilities. Yoshida has played the field just four times this year after offseason shoulder surgery.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible Anthony heals abnormally quickly and is back on the field before season\u2019s end, but based purely on the history of oblique injuries in recent years, it\u2019s far likelier that he won\u2019t be ready to return until the postseason is underway. The Red Sox will have to hope that they\u2019re still alive when Anthony is cleared to return, and even then, he might need to jump right back into the mix after a lengthy layoff and without the benefit of a true minor league rehab assignment. At the very least, they\u2019ll hope to have Abreu back by that point, but Boston\u2019s outfield look far less formidable now than it did three weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Sox outfielder Roman Anthony exited yesterday\u2019s game due to soreness in his left oblique. He\u2019ll be placed…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":197531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25270,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-197530","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-roman-anthony","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115141871295578840","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}