Two Red Sox relievers begin to throw following injuries during the spring
Red Sox lefty Joely Rodriguez began to play catch on Tuesday. He is beginning to rehab his grade two strain of his right oblique suffered back on March 18.
During the eight inning against the Orioles, Rodríguez threw a pitch and immediately grabbed his side. The Boston Globe’s Pete Abraham reported that the Sox lefty was “was groaning in pain as he went to the clubhouse and was holding onto his side.”
Red Sox manager Alex Cora was not able to provide a timetable to reporters as to when Rodriguez would return.
Reliever Wyatt Mills also began to play catch this week. The righty was shutdown in spring training after being diagnosed with a flexor issue in his right arm.
The sidearmer offers a similar pitching delivery to John Schreiber. The 6-foot-4 right-hander throws from the same angle and operates with a three-pitch mix that consists of a four-seam fastball, a slider, and a sinker.
“The stuff, the uniqueness, the slot is different,” Cora said of Mills. ““And actually the four-seamer is good. When he used it a lot in games, he got some swings-and-misses on top of the zone. A little bit inconsistent control-wise, command-wise. But you can see it, like that uniqueness of throwing from there. And the action of his pitches is very good.”
The 28-year-old is coming off a 2022 season in which he posted a 4.60 ERA with 26 strikeouts to 13 walks in 27 outings (29 1/3 innings) between Seattle and Kansas City.
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