Plantar fasciitis has so far kept Ellsbury away from camp, and his odds of getting up to speed by Opening Day after missing all of appear slim at best. The Yankees likely don't expect much if anything from the injury-prone outfielder this season, though more details should become clear following the evaluation. A long list of injuries kept Ellsbury off the field for the entirety of , and hasn't started any better. Plantar fasciitis has prevented him from reporting to camp, and the team doesn't believe he'll be able to ramp up in time for the start of the season, as he remains unable to run on flat ground.
Given Ellsbury's struggles staying on the field, the Yankees will likely be treating anything they get from him as an unexpected surprise this season. Ellsbury isn't expected to report to spring training until March due to problems with his plantar fascia, Joel Sherman of the New York Post reports.
While Ellsbury is said to be completely past the hip injury that hampered him last season, a new issue appears to have cropped up. It's unclear how severe the issue is or whether or not it will put Ellsbury's status for Opening Day in jeopardy. Even if he is healthy, Ellsbury will likely be merely the fourth outfielder.
General manager Brian Cashman said Ellsbury hip is "due to be healthy in spring training" but stopped short of saying he would be ready for Opening Day, Brendan Kuty of NJ.
This statement implies that Ellsbury is tentatively scheduled resume baseball activities prior to spring training, but obviously with the outfielder's past injury history it's hard to guarantee his status five-plus months in advance. Ellsbury underwent arthroscopic surgery to repair a torn left labrum in early August and failed to play in a single game in Ellsbury underwent season-ending arthroscopic surgery on his left hip Monday.
The surgery, which was performed to a repair a torn labrum, carries a recovery time of six months, which will definitively rule Ellsbury out for the season but leave him ready to go in time for spring training next year.
The veteran outfielder will end up not appearing in a single game this season. With the Boston Red Sox shifting their business model toward a low-cost rebuild, impending free agent, Jacoby Ellsbury , seems like an unnecessary expense. Despite his immense talent, his potentially astronomical price tag has turned off most fans and analysts to a contract extension.
Contrary to popular opinion, letting Ellsbury go would be a mistake. Here are five reasons to keep the speedster in Boston. Since then, his legs have not slowed down a bit, and his skills have done nothing but improve. However, Ellsbury is an elite athlete in every sense of the word. Just look at Ichiro or Derek Jeter.
What a difference a season makes. In , Ellsbury put up monster numbers, going and posting a. However, unlike Kemp, Ellsbury has several flaws that will drive his price tag much lower. For example, his health is a major concern. Furthermore, it was the richer and more competitive teams that were usually in the best position to see their own players through to free agency, or to even acquire a player who would become a Type A free agent near the trade deadline, deepening their draft pool.
It was a strategy that the Red Sox, who had four compensation-attached free agents following their World Series win, were primed to take advantage of. The rules being what they were, the team had good reason to look at making over its World Series-winning roster. There was a short-term negative consequence: the former set of players outplayed the latter in , largely based on Pedro Martinez having his final great season in a New York Mets uniform. Yet the longer-term advantages of the Red Sox strategy are clear.
The maneuvering allowed the Red Sox to parlay what became the 28th, 76th, and th picks into picks 23, 26, 42, 45, 47, and There is a strong likelihood that Jacoby Ellsbury would not have fallen five more picks, and nearly incomprehensible that Clay Buchholz and Jed Lowrie would have been available at the ends of the second and third rounds, respectively.
According to plan Who is the best Red Sox first-round pick of the last 25 years? Perhaps it is something of a trick question, as Jon Lester and Dustin Pedroia were second-round picks while Mookie Betts landed in the fifth round, but Jacoby Ellsbury was an excellent prospect and delivered on that promise. Several times throughout this series you will read about a player whose development wasn't linear or easy, or quite what was planned.
In the rare case of someone like Ellsbury though? Well, once in a while the development path is totally linear and exactly what was planned. The Oregon State star found little resistance in his initial assignment in Lowell after signing, got placed in High A Wilmington out of his first spring training, and was promoted to Portland at midseason where he continued his solid play.
Returning to Portland to begin the season, Ellsbury had a breakout that verged on the sublime, spending three weeks strumming poor Eastern League pitchers to the tune of. Six months later, he was helping the major league team sweep the Rockies while winning everyone in America a free taco. Just six short years later, Ellsbury was leaving the organization as a World Series champion yet again. He shattered his career high in homers by blasting 32 he did not have more than 16 in any other campaign , complementing that with 39 steals, 46 doubles, and a league-leading total bases.
He rode a. His 8. As a final gift, the pick the Red Sox received as compensation when losing Ellsbury in free agency to the Yankees was used to select Michael Kopech. A check or ten on the runner Is there any other sport where a player can be so frustrating while being good as Clay Buchholz could be in baseball?
Buchholz never became the ace that the no-hitter in his second career start and consensus top-five rankings entering portended, but he also forever seemed to be on the cusp of being that player. It was also marked with some truly wonderful pitching. In , despite the weakest strikeout-to-walk ratio of his 20s, Buchholz registered a 2. In , still only 28, he appeared to finally make that leap to being the frontline starter scouts had envisioned as he posted a record and Pedro-esque 1.
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