Lucas Giolito, anticipated to front the Boston Ruddy Sox revolution, will be out inconclusively with an elbow harm, and supervisor Alex Cora told columnists Tuesday that the club is concerned around its seriousness.
Giolito is due to experience more testing, and the comes about seem have critical repercussions for both Boston’s season and a modest bunch of unsigned players.
“Not a great day for us,” Cora told correspondents at the club’s Post Myers, Fla., spring preparing camp.
The Ruddy Sox marked Giolito, 29, to a one-year, $19 million contract with player and group alternatives for the two seasons taking after. They were keeping money that unused pitching coach Andrew Bailey seem turn around Giolito’s fortunes after the 2019 All-Star posted Times of 4.90 and 4.88 the past two seasons.
However a bounceback year from a previous pro was not the huge speculation fans anticipated from the Ruddy Sox, who were rapidly disposed of from the sweepstakes for Japanese pro Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who marked with the Dodgers.
Now, there may be both fan pressure and greater need to enter the more expensive waters of free agency.
The club has long been connected to free agent lefty Jordan Montgomery, the Texas Rangers’ World Series hero whose wife is interning at a Boston hospital. Montgomery and reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell remain unsigned, with agent Scott Boras content to wait out the market for suitable deals.
