Red Sox shutdown Brayan Bello with forearm soreness, injury is not expected to be serious
The Red Sox have been at spring training for less than a week and are already dealing with the injury bug with one of their starting pitchers.
Righty Brayan Bello has been shutdown by the team for a few days after he experienced forearm soreness following his latest bullpen session, manager Alex Cora said on Friday.
It should be pointed out that the club does not plan on having Bello complete an MRI, at this time. Cora is expecting Bello to take the next few days off from throwing and resume his normal program on Monday.
“Nothing to alarm, but obviously, he’s so important to the organization... He’s important for what we’re trying to accomplish. He’ll be back on his throwing program on Monday,” Cora said.
Bello told the club that this injury popped up during the last few days at camp.
“I talked to him in one of those eye-to-eye, heart-to-hearts,” Cora said. “I was like, ‘Did this happen here or did this happen before?’ He threw a lot of breaking balls in that one, working on stuff. It was kind of a different bullpen for him and he felt it. We’re very confident that Monday he’s back on his throwing program and we’ll go from there.”
Bello made 13 appearances last season, 11 for starts is expecting to be a part of the Red Sox rotation in 2023. The 23-year-old is one of the organization’s top pitching prospects entering camp.
In addition to the Bello injury, starter Nick Pivetta left early today after playing catch on the backfields. On his second to last throw, Pivetta leaned and crouched over after throwing. A trainer immediately asked the righty if he was ok, the righty then threw one more pitch and left the field.
It was later reported that he was recovering from being sick, Ian Browne of MLB.com reported Pivetta had been getting over having COVID.
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