Noah Song's Shock Opening Show Sticks Out for Red Sox!
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The Red Sox made four roster cuts Tuesday morning, trimming down the pool of competitors to make the Opening Day bullpen as the final week of camp begins. Boston re-assigned pitchers Seth Martinez, Wyatt Olds, T.
J. Sikkema and Noah Song to minor league camp in the club’s third batch of roster cuts so far this spring. All four will be candidates to begin the year at Triple-A Worcester.
None will make the Opening Day roster. Both Martinez (a long-relief option with major league experience) and Song ( the former top prospect who at 28 is still looking to debut after having his career interrupted by Naval service ) were thought to be candidates for the Opening Day bullpen. Song, after a three-game cameo for the WooSox last fall at the end of a long return from Tommy John surgery, impressed in camp, logging a 1.
13 ERA and striking out nine batters in eight innings. The Red Sox want him to put emphasis on a specific pitch when he begins this season in the minors, most likely back with Worcester. “I think the cutter is a pitch that they talk about during the meeting.
Just getting it involved,” Cora said. “But overall he was a good one. ” Martinez allowed damage (7.
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