Rodriguez, 31, is dealing with left shoulder inflammation and his designation is retroactive to Thursday. Boston also optioned left-hander Ryan Sherriff to Worcester and recalled right-hander Kaleb Ort and lefty Brennan Bernardino from the Triple-A club. Sherriff, 33, pitched in both games of Saturday’s doubleheader split with the Tampa Bay Rays. He has no decisions […]
Continue readingTampa Bay made the move before the opener of a three-game series in Texas. It was retroactive to Thursday, when Choi was held out of the lineup against the Yankees despite being 8 for 12 with three homers in his career against New York ace Gerrit Cole. Choi had played only 15 games since missing […]
Continue readingThe weirdest, strangest, wackiest, smartest, stupidest, best, worst season in baseball history is finally over — and it’s not clear if we should be happy or sad. Major League Baseball brought us so much pleasure, but also such a large measure of pain. So all we can hope, for so many reasons well beyond the […]
Continue readingSome years the World Series comes down to the most famous player on the roster, and some years it comes down to the least famous. If we knew which it would be this year, we could narrow our attention to that one part of the field. But the nature of baseball is just the opposite: […]
Continue readingMcClanahan was a first-round pick in the amateur draft two years ago who pitched at Class A and Double-A in 2019. He joined first baseman Ji-Man Choi and infielder Yandy Diaz, who have been on the injured list, in being added to the active roster before Game 1 of the best-of-three series. To make room […]
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