Red Sox Cut Four Pitchers From Major League Camp
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The Major League Baseball Season is quickly approaching, and the Boston Red Sox have to finalize their opening day roster.
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The Red Sox have already started trimming down their crop of players at big league camp, and on Tuesday, the team reassigned four pitchers to minor league camp. The team has 54 players remaining at camp, including 13 non-roster invitees.
Left-handed pitcher T.J. Sikkema and right-handed pitchers Seth Martinez, Wyatt Olds and Noah Song were all reassigned. Martinez and Song were candidates to make the opening day roster, but ultimately, the Red Sox chose to keep them off the roster to start the season.
Martinez has big league experience, pitching in 117 games for the Houston Astros and Miami Marlins. Song, a 28-year-old reliever, was a former top prospect who had his career interrupted due to Naval service, according to MassLive's Chris Cotillo. Song had a 1.13 ERA in spring training, striking out nine batters in eight innings of work.
“Just get back to being consistent in the strike zone,” Cora said of Martinez. “He knows it. He talks about it. Like, there were some flashes of him throwing the ball well, but as he said, he didn’t show the consistency that you need to make it to the big leagues. And he’ll go down there and do his job. And at one point in season, like we tell all these guys, just be ready because we will need guys.”
Just because the Red Sox are leaving Song and Martinez off the opening day roster, it does not mean they cannot play a role at some point this season.