STARTING ROTATION REVAMPED
FOUR LEFTIES NOW IN MIX
BOSTON - IT ALL STARTED ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO WITH WHAT WERE SUPPOSED TO BE A COUPLE OF MINOR INJURIES.
RED SOX BACKUPS ALFONZO DEAL AND HILARIO CAVAZOS WENT ON THE 15-DAY DISABLED LIST WITH MUSCLE STRAINS THAT BOTH PROBABLY COULD HAVE RESTED A DAY OR TWO, THEN BEEN READY TO PLAY.
BUT THE BOSTON RELEIF STAFF WAS PITCHING A TON OF INNINGS, SO RP WESLEY WRIGHT CAME UP FROM AAA AND UTILITYMMAN EDDY CRAMM WAS SIGNED. NO. 2 STARTER JUSTIN MASTERSON WAS THEN LOST FOR TWO MONTHS WITH A BROKEN WRIST AND THE WHOLESALE CHANGES WERE UNDERWAY:
* APRIL 11, THE SOX SIGNED OF GERARDO PARRA FOR AAA PAWTUCKET.
OF TRINIDAD HINOJOSA WAS SENT TO THE MINORS.
CRAMM WAS SIGNED.AND WRIGHT WAS CALLED UP ALONG WITH 1B-C MATT KINCAID AS BENITO ENRIQUEZ TOOK HIS SPOT IN AA PORTLAND.
FIFTH STARTER COY BARROW WAS SHIPPED TO PAWTUCKET, REPLACED BY ARMANDO GAMBINO.
CAVAZOS (NECK SPRAIN) AND DEAL (LAT MUSCLE STRAIN) WENT ON THE DL.
*SENT SP RICH BROCK TO AAA AND RECALLED SP NOAH ANTHONY FROM AA. BARROW WAS DROPPED TO PORTLAND AND MASTERSON WENT ON THE 60-DAY DL A DAY AFTER A START.
*APRIL 18, RP DeWAYNE HUDSON WAS DEMOTED TO AAA, AS WAS SP IRVING RUFFIN, GAMBINO AND RP CHRISTOBAL MONTALVO.
1B-LF RHETT CONNELL, RP SHAWN KELLEY ABD SP WILBUR FERREIRA REPLACED THEM IN BOSTON.
*APRIL 20 SAW A MAJOR DEAL GO DOWN WITH THE PADRES, AS BOSTON SENT STARTING 3B HUNTER QUEEN, STARTING 2B ARIEL CLOUD AND PROMISING INFIELDER TOMMY DIGGS WEST FOR BUDDING SUOERSTAR 3B RODERICK SUTHERLAND AND TOP PROSPECT CLINT SMILEY, A 19-YEAR-OLD INFIELDER.
SUTHERLAND WAS HITTING .462 WITH 5 HOMERS AND 19 RBIs AT THE TIME OF THE TRADE AND BOTH HE AND SMILEY WENT INTO THE STARTING LINEUP. 1B-OF MARK KOTSAY, 36, JOINED THE SOX AS CRAMM WAS OPTIONED.
*THE NEXT DAY, UTILITYMAN MIKE MORSE WAS SIGNED FOR PAWTUCKET, AS WAS OF DOMINIC GARRISON
C JASON JARAMILLO WAS RECALLED AFTER BOSTON TRADED C GARTH THARP, SP JO-JO REYES AND 1B ENRIQUE MALDANADO FOR SP JUNG-YEOL KU FROM THE TIGERS.
"KU STRUCK OUT 13 EARLIER IN THE SEASON, SO HE SHOULD BE A ROTATION MAINSTAY," AN AL SCOUT SAID. "AND I HEARD BOSTON WAS PREPARED TO TRADE RYAN BRAUN IN THE SUTHERLAND, SO KEEPING BRAUN WAS A COUP.
"PLUS, BOSTON RID ITSELF OF THE 5-YEAR DEAL IT SIGNED REYES TO."
*APRIL 22, SIGNED UTILITYMAN EXTRORDINAIRE JOE INGLETT AND OPTIONED CRAMM AND BACKUP INFIELDER CLINTON McGILL TO THE MINORS.
TRADED NO. 3 STARTER DAVID HERNANDEZ, AAA SP MAURICE HAYNES AND CRAMM TO THE REDS FOR VETERAN LEFTY STARTER RANDY WOLF.
DROPPED SP STANFORFD LITTLE AND RECALLED ARLIE CLARK TO TAKE OVER AT SECOND BASE.
"BOSTON MADE OUT LIKE BANDITS," THE SCOUT SAID. "SUTHERLAND MAY WIN A BATTING TITLE OR TWO, AND KU AND WOLF NOW GIVE THEM FOUR LEFTY STARTERS. EVEN THOUGH SUTHERLAND HAS SLUMPED SINCE THE TRADE, ONCE IT GETS WARMER, HE'LL HEAT UP."
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