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Boston Red Sox Send Quinn Priester To Brewers, Add Top Prospect & Pick
General Manager Craig Breslow has added another prospect to the Boston Red Sox farm system in Yophery Rodriguez. Boston dealt more-established prospect Quinn Priester to Milwaukee, also getting a 2025 Competitive Balance Round A draft pick (No. 33 overall) and a player to be named from the Brewers.
DENVER: Quinn Priester, at the time a Pittsburgh Pirates prospect, pitches in the Futures Game at … More
Priester, 24, will join the Brewers when they open a series at Colorado on Tuesday night. To clear a spot on the 40-man roster, right-handed reliever Grant Wolfram was designated for assignment.
Milwaukee GM Matt Arnold made the deal to get a young pitcher for an injury-wrecked rotation. The Brewers currently have eight pitchers on the injured list:
LHP Aaron Ashby, strained right oblique, expected to try a bullpen session late this week, then go on rehab assignment at Triple-A Nashville.
RHP Aaron Civale, left hamstring, out until late April.
LHP Nestor Cortes, left elbow flexor strain, went to 15-day IL on Sunday
LHP Robert Gasser, Tommy John Surgery last June 4, out until September.
LHP DL Hall, strained left lat, on 60-day IL since March 5, not expected back until May.
RHP Nick Mears, illness, currently on rehab assignment with Nashville.
RHP Tobias Myers, strained left oblique, expected to start rehab at Nashville this week.
MILWAUKEE: Brandon Woodruff of the Milwaukee Brewers is doused by teammates after pitching a … More
RHP Brandon Woodruff, right shoulder surgery in October 2023, expected to start rehab assignment at Nashville soon and possibly return in May.
Right-hander Freddy Peralta is the only healthy member of manager Pat Murphy’s planned rotation. The Brewers (5-5) are 14th in the national League in earned run average (5.97). They were second in 2024 with a 3.65 ERA.
Priester’s Problems
Priester was regarded as one of the top high-school prospects in the nation in 2019 when the Pittsburgh Pirates picked him 18th overall and signed him for $3.4 million. He missed all of 2020 as the minor leagues were shut down by Covid.
The right-hander made his MLB debut in July 2023 at age 22. His four-pitch mix that played so well in the minors has been hit hard in 21 games in the majors, however. He has a 6-9 record and lofty 6.23 ERA.
BRADENTON, FL: Quinn Priester of the Boston Red Sox pitches in a spring training game against the … More
Priester was dealt to Boston at the 2024 trading deadline for infielder Nick Yorke, the 17th overall pick in 2020.
Scouts like Priester’s sinking two-seam fastball that gets ground-ball outs. He also has a mid-90s fastball, mid-80s slider and an upper 70-mph curve that is considered his best pitch. Throwing them all for strikes has been a concern. He has 41 walks in 99 2/3 MLB innings.
Rodriguez’s Red Sox Role
The 19-year-old outfielder is now Boston’s 11th-ranked prospect by MLB Pipeline. The 6-foot-1 lefty plays all three spots in the outfield and seems best suited to right field with a good, accurate arm. He doesn’t have one outstanding tool yet scouts consider him above average in all aspects of the game.
PHOENIX: Yophery Rodriguez of the Milwaukee Brewers hits an RBI single in a Spring Breakout game … More
Milwaukee signed him for $1.5 million at age 17 in 2023 out of the Dominican Republic. “If I had to sum up his game in one word, it’s discipline,” Brewers manager of international scouting and player personnel James Armstrong back then. “It feels like every action with him is very deliberate. He takes his craft very seriously.”
When You Need Pitching …
Twenty-five years ago, the Cleveland Indians were desperate for pitching at the 2000 trading deadline. They made a blockbuster deal with the Brewers to acquire closer Bob Wickman and starters Jason Bere and Steve Woodard. Milwaukee got minor-league infielder Marco Scutaro, minor-league pitchers Kane Davis and Paul Rigdon and 25-year-old slugger Richie Sexson.
MILWAUKEE: Richie Sexson of the MIlwaukee Brewers is congratulated by teammates after scoring … More
Cleveland had a 52-49 record at the time and went 38-23 after the deal to finish 90-72. It wasn’t enough to make the playoffs, ending a run of five straight post-season trips. Bere went 6-3, Woodard 3-3 and Wickman got 14 saves. Only Wickman continued to help Cleveland, totaling 139 saves over six seasons.
Scutaro never played for Milwaukee, though he did help six other clubs through 2014. Kane and Rigdon never did much after the deal.
Sexson was tremendous for the Brewers, hitting .276 with 133 homers and 398 RBI over 534 games in a Milwaukee uniform.
The Future Of This Deal
The Brewers need instant impact from Priester to help them gain a playoff berth for the third year in a row and seventh time in eight seasons.
The Red Sox have second baseman Kristian Campbell (ranked No. 6 overall by MLB Pipeline) already an early candidate for 2025 AL Rookie of the Year honors. They will work with Rodriguez and hope he joins other top prospects such as Roman Anthony (No. 2), Marcelo Mayer and Franklin Arias (No. 73) already listed in the top 100.
Yophery Rodriguez will not be another Richie Sexson. His potential added to the plentiful Boston Red Sox farm system, however, makes the organization even stronger down the line.
It’s going to be a little while longer before Roman Anthony returns to action.
The Red Sox outfielder has suffered another setback in his recovery from a sprained right hand and will be shut down from swinging for a couple of days.
Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy told reporters in Cleveland that Anthony tried hitting off a tee Thursday for the first time since suffering his injury on May 4, but that he found doing so to be painful.
“He hit off the tee (yesterday) and had some discomfort, so we’re going to slow play it,” Tracy said, per MLB.com’s Henry Palattella. “It’s going to be day-to-day, or even the better way is ‘action-to-action.’ (We’re going to be asking), ‘What did he do today, is that uncomfortable and do we have to wait?’ ”
Originally thought to be a minor issue that might not even require a stint on the injured list, Anthony has now missed 21 games and likely won’t be back until early-to-mid June.
The recovery process has also been halting. Anthony has continued doing most other baseball activities, including running and throwing, but it wasn’t until earlier this week that he could swing a bat free of discomfort.
Once he was able to comfortably take dry swings — or swing a bat without hitting the ball — the next step was hitting off a tee. Now he’ll be given a couple more days to heal and likely won’t try again until the Red Sox return home from Cleveland and are back at Fenway Park on Tuesday following Monday’s off day.
Tracy acknowledged that the recovery hasn’t gone as smoothly as expected, but emphasized that isn’t because of anything Anthony’s done wrong.
“That’s not Roman’s fault, it’s not anyone’s fault,” Tracy said. “It’s just he got hurt, and it’s a nagging injury on a hand when he’s trying to hit.”
Speaking to Rob Bradford on the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast prior to Thursday’s game against the Atlanta Braves, Anthony clarified the exact nature of his injury, which was officially announced by the team as a right wrist sprain. Anthony said he has a partially torn ring finger ligament, specifically his ring finger CMC (carpometacarpal).
The sprain versus torn verbiage has generated some confusion among fans, though medically there isn’t a meaningful distinction between the two.
“I know stuff came out yesterday about tear versus sprain versus strain and all these different things, and I don’t know what to say other than any of those are a tear,” Tracy said. “You strain a hamstring and that’s a partial tear; fibers let go a little bit and they need to heal.
“I don’t think anything is portrayed differently or wrongly. If a guy strains his hamstring, I won’t come out here and say he tore his hamstring. That’s not how that works.”
Prior to suffering his injury, Anthony was batting .229 with one home run and a .675 OPS through his first 30 games this season.
Surprise: Another weekend and there’s more rain on the way. It’s bad enough we’ve had to post a First Alert.
For now, we’ll watch as clouds thicken today. We’ll squeeze out some drops later this afternoon and evening.
A weather maker is winding up in Canada, wrapping in cold air. All of that is going to dive down to New England.
We’re in the thick of it tomorrow. Rain will be coming at us in bursts with some dry time in between. Winds will likely push past 50 mph in Boston.
Those winds will eat away at temperatures; with wind chills barely above freezing. And no – not just in the morning – but the afternoon, too!
It’s so cold there’s the threat of snow as that rain bumps into colder air over the Berkshires, Worcester Hills and southern New Hampshire right up to Mount Washington.
The snow isn’t going to pile up but just know there could be some flakes flying over our highest hills.
The blue on our Futurecast map marks the spots where snow could mix with rain.
Rain spins out by Saturday evening but not before dumping about half an inch over Boston.
We’ll try to salvage the rest of the weekend with temperatures in the upper 60s by Sunday. Still, there’s the threat of bits and pieces of rain.
By the way, this isn’t any weekend, it’s the last weekend of spring. Meteorological summer starts on June 1.
The first day of summer remains drab and dreary with more rain chances and temperatures in the low 60 on Monday.
Federal immigration demands are once again centered on Massachusetts.
The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday sent three letters to Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox, Suffolk County Sheriff Steven Tompkins and Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden demanding, among other things, information on how many ICE detainers BPD has received and declined to honor from 2022 to 2026 and any communication between the three departments related to immigration.
House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, said in a statement that “releasing repeat criminals back to the streets solely because of their immigration status is crazy, and that’s exactly what Boston is doing.”
But Democrats push back on that framing.
“You’re familiar with Jim Jordan and his antics,” said Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. “This is more circus, it’s more theater and it’s not making our community safe.”
A spokesperson for the City of Boston wrote, “the city has provided this information many times…” going on to say “…these policies are part of keeping Boston the safest major city in America.”
The letters call for the documents to be sent to the House Judiciary Committee by June 10th at 5:00 pm. District Attorney Hayden’s office told NBC 10 they are reviewing the letter, neither Commissioner Cox or Sheriff Tompkins responded to requests for comment.
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