Skubal was SUPPOSED to be out a few months
He might be back next week because of the Nanoneedle 2.0, a new medical device that might have just changed baseball forever
Tarik Skubal underwent elbow surgery May 6.
One month and one day later, he threw five scoreless innings on 54 pitches and punched out six at High-A.
Maybe Skubal is just that guy, but if nanoscope technology halves the return time from bone-chip injuries, what an advancement.
Another solid showing from RHP Gage Ziehl (GG #45) yesterday with Double-A Portland:
6 IP, 5 H, 1 BB, 1 ER, 8 K
• 16 whiffs (36%)
Tough start in terms of BABIP luck for the Miami product, but he has posted a 2.45 ERA with a 20% K-BB rate over his last three starts.
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"If someone can have as much fun watching me as I'm having out there, I've done my job. I'm having so much fun."
- @RedSox rookie LHP Payton Tolle is living the dream 🙌
The Red Sox have one series win at Fenway Park all year, Brayan Bello gets demoted as the worst starter in the big leagues, and IKF gives some insight into how dysfunctional the organization is being run. Fun times! https://t.co/pVR1n00GdA
The Red Sox and Craig Breslow have invested $295 million in Roman Anthony, Ceddanne Rafaela, Kristian Campbell, and Brayan Bello over the last two years.
$115 million of that money is sitting in Triple-A and doesn’t seem anywhere close to returning to the big leagues.
Usually, teams get praised for locking up players like this with pre-arbitration extensions, but you can’t increase the cap hits for unproven players while also having the horrible contracts of Story and Yoshida on the books. It’s just a bad model.
You can be bad. You can be a prick. You can’t be both.
Brayan Bello doesn’t seem to get that, which is exactly why he’ll spend the next few months in Worcester instead of Boston.