Red Sox's Alex Cora Sends Jarren Duran Message Amid Recent Lack Of Starts
Red Sox's Alex Cora Sends Jarren Duran Message Amid Recent Lack Of Starts originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Boston Red Sox outfield was a major talking point this offseason, given that the team had five players capable of playing daily, and now that the season is underway, the fluidity of the outfield is evident.
Wilyer Abreu, Ceddanne Rafaela and Roman Anthony have all seen very limited dips in playing time. However, Jarren Duran has struggled to start the season and has started in just one of the last four games, including Tuesday's game against the New York Yankees. The Yankees started Luis Gil, a right-hander, on Tuesday.
It would've made sense for Duran to start, but instead it was Masataka Yoshida in the designated hitter spot. Alex Cora spoke on the decision to start Yoshida and why Duran was left on the bench against a right-hander. "Chasing pitches, early on he was taking walks and now he’s chasing, we've got to make sure we swing at the right ones," said Cora on Tuesday, per MLB.
com's Ian Browne. "As a group, we did a good job (Monday), controlling the strike zone, putting the ball in play. We just got to keep continuing to do that.
" Duran is hitting . 164 with a . 497 OPS to start the season.