Roman Anthony, a 22-year-old Boston Red Sox slugger, has missed nine games since being placed on the 10-day injured list May 7 with a right wrist sprain. After receiving a cortisone injection and wearing a wrist brace, he shed it, did baseball activity, and pl
Roman Anthony’s rehab took a small but meaningful step forward as Friday approached, with the 22-year-old Boston Red Sox slugger now out of the wrist brace that had marked his time on the injured list.
Anthony has missed nine games entering Friday after the Red Sox placed him on the 10-day injured list on May 7 with a right wrist sprain. He had said he likely would return before the minimum IL time expired, but Friday would have been the earliest possible activation date, and it didn’t happen.
Instead, the progress has looked encouraging.. Anthony had been wearing a brace on his injured wrist because he received a cortisone injection. with interim manager Chad Tracy saying so.. Anthony later shed the brace and described what came next: “I’m out of the brace and got to do baseball activity today. ” Anthony said.. “So, positive signs.. I’m feeling good.”
He even played catch on the field ahead of Friday’s game against the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park.. The next hurdle is more specific and harder to rush—Anthony hasn’t started swinging a bat again.. He said he wants to return to hitting “very soon. ” tying his timeline to how he feels after throwing earlier in the day: “Based on the way I felt throwing today. hoping to get into that very soon. ” Anthony said.. “I don’t have a timeline on what they want from me or the plan.. All I know is that the first step was getting out there and that the throwing kind of leads into the hitting.”
Tracy suggested the team could move into the hitting phase without long delay.. “He’s feeling a lot better, which is good news for us,” Tracy said.. “So then we progress along.. Hopefully — depending on how he responds to all this and maybe by the end of our time here (in Atlanta) — we can get him swinging a bat.. We’ll see how it goes and how he responds to what he’s doing.”
The central uncertainty is how Anthony’s body—and his timing at the plate—will handle swinging again after being away from it.. His recovery route has been clear so far: a cortisone injection led to wearing a brace. Anthony then got out of the brace and resumed throwing and catch. and now the plan is for throwing to lead into hitting.. That sequence is what has defined both what he’s been able to do lately and what still needs to happen next.
Anthony’s injury began on May 4 against the Detroit Tigers.. He left the game after fouling on a check-swing; he finished the at-bat but was replaced the next inning defensively.. The wrist sprain arrived at a point when he had been starting to find traction.. Through four games in May, Anthony batted .385 with a .467 on-base percentage, plus two doubles and two walks.. Each of his doubles was “well-hit,” and there was a sense that another step forward—like more power—could follow.
Still, his season power output had been limited so far: Anthony’s lone home run of the year came on April 1 against the Houston Astros.
After Friday’s signs of progress. Anthony sounded hopeful about getting back quickly while acknowledging he didn’t know exactly where things stood moment to moment.. “I didn’t really know where I was going to be come today,” he said.. “I don’t think it went badly in terms of what I was feeling and how it’s progressed over the last few days.. I think I’m in a very good spot and hopeful to be back in there as soon as possible.”
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