{"id":85967,"date":"2025-08-21T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85967\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T22:02:06","slug":"red-sox-put-wilyer-abreu-on-il-promote-the-password-garcia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/85967\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox put Wilyer Abreu on IL, promote &#8220;The Password&#8221; Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"c6df06f6-785d-3900-4935-5fd13742e2ee\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/bos\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> placed outfielder <a data-player-guid=\"c01c2305-33d5-3753-8529-79086533e04d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4990055\/wilyer-abreu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wilyer Abreu<\/a> on the 10-day injured list ahead of their four-game series against the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"2b9cedf3-ce60-0bcf-fafe-8cd055255685\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Abreu has been hobbled by a right calf strain and while he initially thought he wouldn&#8217;t need an IL stint, the team placed opted to play it safe.<\/p>\n<p>In the corresponding roster move, Boston brought up outfielder Jhostynxon Garcia from Triple-A Worcester. Nicknamed &#8220;The Password,&#8221; a nod to his first name, Garcia has been red hot at the plate since being promoted to Worcester earlier this summer, hitting 17 home runs in 66 games.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN&#8217;s Kiley McDaniel rates the righty-hitting Garcia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/43639138\/2025-top-10-prospect-rankings-all-30-mlb-teams-kiley-mcdaniel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the No. 3 prospect in Boston&#8217;s minor league system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox enter the four-game series in the Bronx 1.5 games behind the second-place Yankees in the AL East. Despite losing three straight, Boston still holds the No. 2 wild card spot in the AL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox placed outfielder Wilyer Abreu on the 10-day injured list ahead of their four-game series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-85967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}