Red Sox provide update on Trevor Story injury
Word from doctors both inside and outside the organization has officially confirmed that the downright rotten luck for Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story will roll on through the 2024 season.
Injured in last weekend’s series against the Angels, and with Story looking downright distraught when talking about the injury, the news on Story was almost always going to be a significant downer for the Red Sox.
And that official update came Tuesday, and courtesy of Red Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow.
“Yeah, so kind of a recent development here, he is in fact scheduled to have surgery after speaking with our medical staff further, and confirmation from a second opinion, and Trevor’s decision to go forward,” Breslow confirmed ahead of the team’s home opener at Fenway Park. “He’s got a fracture of the glenoid rim so he’ll have surgery on Friday to fix that with Dr. ElAttrache.”
The surgery will end Story’s season, too, according to the team.
“What we’re looking is somewhere in the neighborhood of six months [for a full recovery],” Breslow confirmed. “Difficult to speculate beyond that, but you can kind of do the math there.”
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Boston’s newest update on Story continues what’s been a downright disastrous, injury-marred tenure in town for the 31-year-old, who is slated to now miss over 300 games since signing a six-year, $140 million contract with the club in 2022.
By the end of this season Trevor Story will have missed 305 games that he was expected to play with the Red Sox. Just brutal.
— Steve Perrault (@Steve_Perrault) April 9, 2024
Story’s injury history with the Red Sox includes a hairline fracture in his wrist in 2022, and an elbow surgery recovery that caused him to miss the first four months of the 2023 campaign.
Overall, Story has hit .227 with 19 home runs and 84 RBIs in 145 games over three seasons with the Red Sox.
Mazz: Be happy, but the Red Sox still have their share of flaws
The defense is still shaky
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – MARCH 28: Enmanuel Valdez #47 of the Boston Red Sox throws to first base for a double play against Jorge Polanco #7 of the Seattle Mariners during the first inning of Opening Day game at T-Mobile Park on March 28, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by Alika Jenner/Getty Images)
Lament all you want about the simplistic nature of traditional metrics, but errors are still errors. The Red Sox have eight of them, which is tied for the fourth-most in baseball. More importantly, they have come at costly times. Wilyer Abreu had a sloppy outfield misplay in Seattle that was a key element in one of the Sox’ three losses. Ditto for Rafael Devers’ misplay with two outs in the sixth innings of the Sox’ eventual 2-1 loss on Saturday night. (The Sox led 1-0 at the time.) While the Sox have allowed a major league low 24 runs thus far, a whopping nine of them (37.5 percent) have been unearned. (Ceddanne Rafaela, of all people, dropped a routine fly on Friday that helped lead to four of them.) Yes, the Sox are better afield. But if the A’s and Angels were good teams, the Sox might have two more losses at least.
The Sox are whiffing like crazy
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 03: Masataka Yoshida #7 of the Boston Red Sox walks back to the dugout after striking out against the Oakland Athletics in the ninth inning at Oakland Coliseum on April 3, 2024 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images)
If you’ve watched any Sox game this season, you’re likely to have seen a lot of strikeouts. From the pitching perspective, this has been a pleasant surprising. From the hitting perspective, it’s starting to get worrisome. Red Sox batters right now have the third-most strikeouts in baseball, which obviously flies in the face of Alex Cora’s mantra to put the ball in play. Triston Casas leads the Sox with 12 strikeouts, but there are low-contact hitters splattered throughout the Sox lineup. (Jarren Duran is batting .349 but has 11 strikeouts.) With a man on third and less than two outs – when contact is critical – the Sox are 2-for-20 with eight strikeouts. That won’t hurt too much against teams like the A’s and Angels. It will when the opponents are better.
