Austin Slater joins Sox’s ranks in the camp

Glendale, Ariz – The margin of the white socks becomes thinner day by day.

On Monday, Austin Slater scratched the alignment before his match of the Cactus League against athletics with a left oblique tension, four days after Andrew Benintendi suffered a broken bone in his hand and three days after Michael A. Taylor was outdated with the right elbow pain.

That leaves Luis Robert Jr. and Mike Touchman as the two best healthy gardeners of the Sox, with Dominic Fletcher, Oscar Colas and Zach Deloach uploading the depth table. Corey Julks replaced Slater in the left garden on Monday.

Slater, 31, hit .209/.321/.266 for the giants last year and was signed with a $ 1.75 million contract with $ 500,000 in presentations bonds. Its 0 by 9 with two walks and five strikeouts in four games this spring.

These last days have put an injury shock absorber in the camp. The Colson Montgomery campocorto scratched the alignment with rear spasms the same day Benintendi was injured.

The right -hand reliever Prelander Berroa fell with an elbow injury in the first spring game.

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The Prelando Berroa, who had a job to lose in the bullpen, but was neglected with the grade 1 elbow tension last week, said he will be reevaluated this week. Its long -term perspective is still unknown.

“I felt that my elbow shrunk, something withdrew from my elbow,” said Berroa, who was injured during the opening of the cactus league of the cacios averages against the puppies on February 27.

“I had a lot of pain,” he said. “But I definitely feel a little better.”

Montgomery

When asked if Montgomery would be in operation on the weekend, Venable seemed to be cautious and said: “I hope that is.”

“But again, we’ll see,” Venable said. “Just taking it day by day. Simply where we are in the year. It is probably cautious and I think that is appropriate at this time. Whatever that means when you start playing again, it will be the right time in which we are sure that you are healthy. “

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The Prelando Berroa, who had a job to lose in the bullpen, but was neglected with the grade 1 elbow tension last week, said he will be reevaluated this week. Its long -term perspective is still unknown.

“I felt that my elbow shrunk, something withdrew from my elbow,” said Berroa, who was injured during the opening of the cactus league of the cacios averages against the puppies on February 27.

“I had a lot of pain,” he said. “But I definitely feel a little better.”

Venable likes Chase

Chase Meidroth left and began in the campocorto on Monday, and although his skill set could be the most appropriate for the second base, his level of comfort is “good” there.

“I spent 2023 in the third base, last year in Short and all my life in the second,” said Meidroth.

In three seasons of minor leagues, Meidroth has begun 94 games in the third base, 65 in the campocorto and 59 in the second base.

Meidroth has four walks and a hit, a double, in its first six games.

“To have that skill and quality of the bat.

Meidroth reached the red socks of the Red Medias with the Kyle Teel receiver, the gardener Braden Montgomery and the right Wikelman González in the Garrett crochet for the perspective trade in December.

Depth of capture

The Sox like their capture group with Korey Lee and Matt Thaiss at the top of the depth table, and Teel and Edgar Quero, occupied the 32nd and 66th place, respectively, between the perspectives of the major leagues by MLB Pipeline.

“I’m just trying to be a sponge around veterans,” Teel said. “Boys with experience like Thaiss and Lee and (Omar) Navarez, is what little things can learn from them about how they do their business every day.”

It is possible that Teel is not the inaugural day list, but it is not far after playing its last 28 triple-A Worcester games last season.

“I can’t control those decisions, but I can control what work I can do every day to improve,” Teel said.

“It’s about refining my game, polishing everything little by little.”