The latest chapter in Triston Casas’ comeback has taken another troubling turn, and the Red Sox are once again left waiting.
Casas, who tore his patellar tendon last May, was already facing a difficult timeline from the start of the season. Opening Day was never a realistic target, and the hope around the organization was that he could still make an impact sometime in the first half. That path has only gotten murkier as the weeks have gone by with little clarity on when he might be back.
On Sunday, the first update in more than a month brought more concern. Tim Healey of The Boston Globe reported that Casas had been dealing with a wrist issue over the past few days, and the Red Sox had shut him down from hitting. The problem was not said to be anything serious, but it’s hardly encouraging for a player on the 60-day injured list who is supposed to be building toward a return.
Casas’ rehab has been a stop-and-start process, and the list of setbacks has grown long enough to be hard to keep straight. Red Sox manager Chad Tracy laid it out Sunday.
“He’s gone through a lot,” Tracy said, per Healey. “Between the knee, he had a little hamstring flare-up, obviously the oblique, and then he’s coming back from that, and now there’s a wrist that’s popped up.
“So, just dealing with different things. Having not played in a while, things have popped up. So we’ll keep an eye on him, and once he’s able to, keep progressing as we can.”
The longer this drags on, the more Casas’ future in Boston starts to feel uncertain. The 26-year-old remains under team control for two more seasons after this one, but after the knee injury, the hamstring issue, the oblique problem and now the wrist setback, it’s fair to wonder how many more chances he’ll get to reclaim a spot in the Red Sox lineup.
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