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Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
Red Sox make 5 roster moves: Alex Bregman to IL with ‘significant' quad strain
BOSTON — The Red Sox have placed third baseman Alex Bregman on the 10-day injured list after an MRI revealed a significant right quad strain. Top shortstop prospect Marcelo Mayer — who also has played third base and second base in the minor leagues — has been selected to the 40-man roster and will take Bregman's spot on the 26-man active roster. Mayer will make his major league debut in the second game of Boston's doubleheader Saturday at 6:35 p.m. Advertisement To clear a spot on the 40-man roster for Mayer, Boston placed first baseman Triston Casas on the 60-day IL. Casas ruptured his patellar tendon May 2, then underwent season-ending surgery two days later. Boston also designated left-handed pitcher Sean Newcomb for assignment and promoted hard-throwing righty Luis Guerrero from Worcester. Bregman injured his quad running out a single that he hit off the Green Monster on Friday. He underwent an MRI early Saturday. 'Significant injury,' manager Alex Cora said after Boston's 6-5 10-inning walkoff victory in Game 1. 'He's going to be out for a while.' Bregman was in the clubhouse after Game 1. He described it as 'a pretty severe right quad strain.' Advertisement 'It is what it is and now try to take it day by day and crush the rehab,' Bregman said. Both Cora and Bregman said it's similar to the left quad strain the third baseman suffered in 2021. That injury kept him on the IL from June 17-Aug. 25. 'I'm not going to give you a timetable,' Cora said. 'Hopefully, trusting our medical staff, it's sooner rather than later. But he's going to be out for a while.' Bregman was optimistic when he left Fenway Park after Friday's game. But it began hurting when he tried to fall asleep. 'Last night, couldn't really fall asleep,' he said. Bregman was batting .299 with a .385 on-base percentage, .553 slugging percentage, .938 OPS, 11 home runs, 17 doubles, 35 RBIs, 32 runs, 22 walks and 42 strikeouts in 51 games (226 plate appearances). Advertisement He agreed the injury is especially tough after how well he began the 2025 season. 'It's horrible,' he said. He said there's no timetable right now. 'It's just day by day,' he said. 'There's no timetable for it. So just focus on the next step.' More Red Sox coverage Read the original article on MassLive.
CBS News
3 days ago
- Business
- CBS News
Lodi faces budget deficit as city hears from city manager for first time since claims of misuse of funds
LODI - The City of Lodi is facing a $1.6 million deficit in its upcoming budget. Wednesday was day two of budget presentations by each department. CBS Sacramento has learned that during day one of those budget meetings, in closed session, the city council was notified of an April 12 letter sent by City Manager Scott Carney's attorney, claiming he was a whistleblower and that there could be retaliation. Carney is still the city manager but has been on administrative leave since early April after an employee evaluation, though the exact reason for that leave is not known. Carney made claims that city staff were changing staff reports and were misusing taxpayer dollars and city credit cards. We've reached out to Carney's attorney, but haven't heard back. "Hopefully, people realize this investigation is for us all. It's for me, the people of Lodi, the employees of Lodi," said Bregman. Mayor Bregman is closely watching the investigation into Carney's claims and says more will be revealed at future meetings. In the meantime, the city is attempting to balance its budget. "This is our one opportunity every single year to be able to look at our reality. Do we need more funding for our playgrounds? Do we need more funding for our fire or police?" said Lisa Craig-Hensley. Councilmember Craig-Hensley says the council is focused on public safety and keeping both police and fire's budgets intact. Because of the budget deficit, the city is not adding more police positions and instead is looking to fully staff the department to the 80 uniforms it's allotted. For the fire department, however, the proposed budget is giving them no room for new services. Still, if things continue the way they are now, the city could see a more than $4.2 million dollar deficit over a five-year span. "You get through the mid-year adjustment and make some corrections, but over the long term, the next five years, we will have to look at new revenues or budget savings," Craig-Hensley said. One thing the city says could be a good investment is the Grape Bowl. Already, they are seeing a good turnout for the Women's Rugby League, and soon, they say, they could see cricket coming to town.
Time of India
4 days ago
- Sport
- Time of India
Red Sox may call on Rafael Devers to fill in at third after Bregman goes down: Report
Red Sox may call on Rafael Devers to fill in at third after Bregman goes down: Report (Image Source: Getty Images) The Boston Red Sox might be forced to make some big changes after a key player suffered an unexpected injury. While the team has many choices to fill the gap, one name keeps coming up as the possible solution. Fans are wondering- could Rafael Devers step back into a role he hasn't played this season? Alex Bregman's sudden injury opens up a major spot for Rafael Devers in Red Sox lineup During a game against the Baltimore Orioles on May 23, 2025, Alex Bregman left the field. He stopped playing because his right leg hurt. Later, team doctors found Bregman had a strained right quad- the same muscle he injured in 2021. His recovery at that time took two months. This is a serious concern for the Red Sox. Bregman's absence leaves the squad a major hole in the infield starting at third base. The Red Sox brought young Triple-A Worcester player Marcelo Mayer in response. Mayer is mainly a shortstop but has been training to play other positions, including third base. He's just 21 years old and has never played in the big leagues before. Manager Alex Cora said the team is still thinking through all the options. He shared with reporters, 'We've got a few names we're considering. It's not decided yet.' Also Read: Red Sox's Legend Supports Rafael Devers' Decision Rafael Devers could return to third base as Red Sox look for answers Rafael Devers started the 2025 season as the team's designated hitter. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Zumbido e perda de audição? Médico revela técnica caseira de 1 real para aliviar! Zumbido no ouvido Undo With Bregman at third base, the Red Sox gave Devers a break from fielding. But now, with Bregman hurt, some experts think Devers could go back to his old spot at third base. D evers has been in great form at the plate. He has raised his statistics following a sluggish start to the season and presently has a .303 batting average. Furthermore, first in walks, he boasts a .980 OPS, therefore assisting the team in scoring runs. Ron Darling and Brian Kenny on a recent MLB Network's MLB Now Showdown debated the possibility of moving Devers back to third base. They said it might be the smartest move for the team right now, especially since Mayer is still new. What the Red Sox decide next could affect the rest of their season. Get IPL 2025 match schedules , squads , points table , and live scores for CSK , MI , RCB , KKR , SRH , LSG , DC , GT , PBKS , and RR . Check the latest IPL Orange Cap and Purple Cap standings.
New York Times
5 days ago
- Business
- New York Times
Is Marcelo Mayer the answer to Boston's quandary? Plus, Shohei Ohtani's progress
The Windup Newsletter ⚾ | This is The Athletic's MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Another third-base conundrum in Boston, Ronald Acuña Jr.'s huge return, Ohtani's step toward a (pitching) return and Ken dives into the Nats' rebuild. I'm Levi Weaver, here with Ken Rosenthal. Welcome to The Windup! The 27-29 Red Sox have spent most of this season languishing in the middling place, but one bright spot has been their biggest offseason acquisition: When Alex Bregman singled on Friday, it raised his 2025 stat line to .299/.385/.553 (.938). It also marked the last time that line would change for a while. Bregman suffered a right quad strain that night, landing him on the injured list for the foreseeable future. Advertisement Not to lean too hard into the drama, but Rafael Devers won't be returning to the position. Take that as you will (but he's also hitting .291 with a .944 OPS at DH). Instead, it was 22-year-old Marcelo Mayer (Keith Law's No. 28 prospect in the sport this year) getting the call. At the time of his promotion, Mayer's professional experience at third base consisted of six games — four in Triple A this year, and two last year in Double A. He won't play there exclusively, though — a plan that was made evident in his debut, where he started at third base, shifted to shortstop later in the game and then back to third base when more substitutions occurred. He's expected to get some time at second base, too. The loss of Bregman is another big blow for the Red Sox, who already lost first baseman Triston Casas for the year (ruptured patellar tendon). They certainly hope Mayer can thrive in the big leagues, and soon — they're already in fourth place and seven games back in the AL East. More Mayer: His chaotic debut included lost keys, a long car ride and a standing ovation. From my latest column: When identifying baseball's perennial bottom feeders, the Rockies come immediately to mind, with the Pirates, White Sox and Marlins also in the conversation. The Nationals belong, too. Since winning the 2019 World Series, the Nationals rank third in the majors in losses, one behind the Pirates, 14 behind the Rockies. At 24-29 this season, they're on pace to avoid their fifth-straight 90-loss campaign — barely. Ownership's lack of investment is partly to blame. The Nationals opened with a top-10 payroll seven out of eight seasons between 2014 and '21, but the past three years have averaged in the bottom 10. A perhaps even bigger problem is the team's failures in player development, as well as amateur and international scouting, going back more than a decade — failures that president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo's spectacular return for Juan Soto at the 2022 trade deadline can mask only so much. Advertisement Good teams both spend and develop. The Nationals do neither. So, while the Nats hold the No. 1 pick in this year's draft, selecting in the same spot where they landed Stephen Strasburg in 2009 and Bryce Harper in 2010, the end of their rebuild is not necessarily in sight. More here. It didn't take long for Ronald Acuña Jr. to make an impact upon returning to the big leagues from injury — on Friday, he hit the first pitch he saw 467 feet. That was the lone run the 25-27 Braves scored in a 2-1 loss to the Padres, but they won 7-1 on Saturday with Acuña homering again. Atlanta has worked hard to get back to the .500 range after a miserable start to the season, and the return of a second superstar — Spencer Strider will start his third game of the season tonight — is a welcome boost, especially as they start an important series against the division-leading (and red-hot) Phillies tonight. Acuña, you likely remember, became (and remains) the league's first member of the 40/70 club in 2023, but was limited to 49 games last year before a torn ACL ended his season prematurely. To make room on the roster for Acuña, the Braves released Orlando Arcia, who had been with Atlanta since a 2021 trade. As for playing time, as David O'Brien mentions at the bottom of this notes column, Eli White will slide from right field into a straight right/left platoon in left field with Alex Verdugo. Acuña wasn't the only big return from injury over the weekend. In Cincinnati, Hunter Greene returned to the mound, while Matt Vierling's return in Detroit will boost a division-leading Tigers team. And in Minnesota, Carlos Correa is back from a short stint on the concussion IL. It's normally not newsworthy when a pitcher's rehab is to the 'he threw to live hitters' standpoint. But when that pitcher followed that live bullpen session by hitting his league-leading 18th home run that night, well … You may recall, there was some talk last October that the Dodgers might ramp up Ohtani's UCL surgery rehab to allow him to pitch in the playoffs. Not only did that not happen, but an injury to his left shoulder (sustained while sliding into second base) gave him one more thing from which to recover over the offseason. Advertisement Now, the Dodgers are taking it very slow. Despite facing hitters in practice — and touching 97 mph while doing so — he isn't expected to be back in the rotation until the second half of the season. Ohtani's not only their best hitter, but his international star power outshines every other player in the game. So they're not going to rush him back. But given the number of Dodgers pitchers on the IL and the workload of the ones who aren't, it should be noted that their restraint is admirable. Oh, and Ohtani still leads the league in home runs — he hit his 19th last night in a 7-2 win over the Guardians. More Dodgers: On Sunday, Tarik Skubal took a perfect game into the sixth, finished with a Maddux (shutout in under 100 pitches) and struck out 13, more than in any other Maddux in history. He's special. Earlier this month, Zack Meisel told you the remarkable story of Nic Enright, who pitched through chemotherapy treatments. He's a big leaguer now. Our Power Rankings have a new No. 1. 👀 Weren't we just writing about this guy? Over the weekend, Oneil Cruz hit a home run that left the bat at 122.9 mph. That's the hardest-hit ball in the Statcast era (2015-present), breaking the old record of 122.4, set by … Oneil Cruz. In one day, the A's optioned three players, added one to the IL and DFA'd Seth Brown, their longest-tenured player. Five moves! It worked … eventually. Two days later, they snapped their 11-game losing streak (and snapped the Phillies' nine-game winning streak). Once a big question, the Astros bullpen has become one of the team's biggest strengths. They don't make closers like Kenley Jansen anymore. He might be the last of his kind. Keith Law makes the argument that college baseball coaches are being irresponsible in their heavy usage of pitchers. If you missed it in Jayson Stark's Weird & Wild on Friday … please go watch this video of the weirdest baseball play I've ever seen. Advertisement After Stark's All-Quarter Century Team last week, a few of us tried our hands at team-specific versions: Cardinals, Dodgers, Yankees, Rangers. Most-clicked in our last newsletter: Our staff's grades for this year's eight new City Connect uniforms. 📫 Love The Windup? Check out The Athletic's other newsletters.
CBS News
5 days ago
- Business
- CBS News
Red Sox continue to toil in mediocrity at important tentpole of season
Memorial Day has come and gone, and the Boston Red Sox have now been a disappointment for a third of the 2025 MLB season. It's fair to wonder if the team is going anywhere but in a big circle of mediocrity as we hit an important point of the season. Over a long 162-game season, Memorial Day is seen as the first tentpole of the playoff race. We have a two-month sample size which is usually a pretty good indication of what's to come the rest of the way. Big runs and larger collapses are still possible in the standings, but where teams are near the end of May can give fans a good idea of the summer ahead. As of right now, the Red Sox are in baseball purgatory. They're not a bad team by definition (the 9-45 Colorado Rockies set a high bar for being bad this season), but they certainly aren't a very good one at 27-29. That sub-.500 record has Boston sitting in fourth place in the AL East and 7.5 games behind the first-place New York Yankees. The Red Sox are 2.5 games out of the final Wild Card spot in the American League. Boston has a 25.3 percent chance at making the playoffs this season, according to FanGraphs. Maybe the team is gearing up for another stellar June and July. Last year's Red Sox were 29-29 at the end of May, and then went 24-14 from the start of June to the All-Star Break. But more mediocrity followed as the team quickly ran out of gas, and they were back at .500 by the start of September. This year's Red Sox team came into the season with high expectations and aspirations for October baseball. But they simply haven't been good enough on a number of levels, and Memorial Day brought another frustrating loss, 3-2, to the Brewers in Milwaukee. Complementary baseball has escaped the Red Sox all season, and did so again Monday when the team wasted another gem by Garrett Crochet. On a day when Crochet looked like an ace on the mound, the Red Sox bats went silent yet again. "Right now, we're not putting a complete game together," manager Alex Cora said after the loss -- Boston's third straight. "You look around, it's just up and down. We haven't been consistent offensively the last three days, and that's the reason we haven't scored too many." The Boston offense took a massive hit late last week when third baseman Alex Bregman landed on the IL with a right quad strain. Bregman has been the team's most consistent bat all season, and has provided Rafael Devers with some protection in the lineup. The Red Sox have been held to one run in two of their four games since Bregman landed on the shelf. Over that span, the team is just 3-for-29 with runners in scoring position. The issues are aplenty with the Red Sox, and it doesn't sound like Cora has many answers at the moment. Red Sox not hitting with runners in scoring position After going 2-for-20 with runners in scoring position over the final three games of a four-game series against the Orioles, the Red Sox went 1-for-9 with runners in scoring position on Monday. The team's lone hit came in the top of the ninth when Jarren Duran singled in a run to make it a 3-2 game. Two batters later, after Devers was intentionally walked to load the bases, Connor Wong harmlessly flew out to right field to end the game. Boston had plenty of opportunities to pull even or ahead on Monday. The Red Sox had runners on the corners in the top of the second, but the struggling Trevor Story popped out and Abraham Toro grounded out to end the threat. The Red Sox had two on and one out in the top of the seventh in a 1-0 game, but Duran grounded into an uncharacteristic inning-ending double play. The Red Sox stranded 10 runners on Monday, and have left 30 on base over their last four games. Story, Campbell slumping for Boston Two of Boston's seven hits on Monday actually came off the bats of two players who are struggling the most right now: Trevor Story and rookie Kristian Campbell. Story was back in the lineup after a day off on Sunday, and went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored. But for the month of May, he's slashed just .163/.212/.213 with just two extra-base hits (a homer and a double) and 28 strikeouts. He's hitting just .200 with runners in scoring position for the season (11-for-55) with 20 punchouts. Story's 65 strikeouts on the season are tied for the fourth-most in baseball. He's on pace to strike out 188 times. The struggling Campbell continues to hit in the middle of the Boston lineup despite hitting a wall the last month. He drove in Boston's first run Monday when he beat out a double play for an RBI groundout in the top of the eighth, but Campbell has slashed just .113/.160/.155 in May. He has just one extra-base hit for the month while striking out 20 times. And with runners in scoring position, Campbell is just 9-for-55 (a .164 average) with 17 strikeouts this season. Ups and downs are expected from a rookie breaking into the big leagues, and the easiest solution is to drop Campbell in the lineup. He hit .358 over his 45 at-bats in the seventh spot in the lineup, but has hit just .178 over 123 at-bats while batting fourth, fifth, or sixth in the order. It's a different story for Cora with his struggling shortstop. Story is signed for two more years at $25 million, and at some point his struggling bat will outweigh the hefty price tag the team is paying him. Benching the veteran won't be easy, but Cora might not have a choice if Story's struggles continue. Losing one-run games Monday's loss to the Brewers was the 20th one-run game the Red Sox have been a part of this season. The team is just 6-14 in those contests, giving Boston the most one-run losses in baseball. Winning close games is a calling card for a good team and one with the makeup to make it to October. The Red Sox have not been one of those teams so far this season. Red Sox squander another Crochet day One reason Boston sits under .500 this season is because the team keeps wasting solid outings from Crochet. Over his last six starts, Crochet has allowed just nine runs over 38 innings -- good for a 2.13 ERA -- while striking out 45 batters and issuing just nine walks. Outside of the leadoff homers he's allowed in two of his last four starts, Crochet has been nails and everything the Red Sox have needed. But the Red Sox keep squandering his stellar starts. Over those last six Crochet outings, Boston is just 2-4. Despite a 2.04 ERA over his 12 starts this year, Crochet's record sits at just 4-4. Crochet has put the team on his shoulders and given the Red Sox a chance to win every time he has taken the mound. It's time for Boston to start taking full advantage of their ace in the hole, or the steps taken to preserve the 25-year-old for a playoff run will have been a complete waste of time.
