{"id":43067,"date":"2025-08-03T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43067\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:24:07","slug":"red-sox-notes-ryan-alcantara-prospects-mayer-slaten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/43067\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Notes: Ryan, Alcantara, Prospects, Mayer, Slaten"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a relatively quiet trade deadline for the Red Sox, as Dustin May<\/a> and Steven Matz<\/a> were the only additions brought onto the roster for the pennant race.\u00a0 However, the Sox had their eyes on plenty of bigger targets, including the team\u2019s previously-reported pushes for the Twins\u2019 Joe Ryan<\/a> and the Marlins\u2019 Sandy Alcantara<\/a>.\u00a0 WEEI\u2019s Rob Bradford<\/a> provides some details on those pursuits, saying that the Red Sox were willing to dig deep into the prospect depth to try and secure a deal.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnybody and everybody from the Sox\u2019s minor league system\u201d was available to some extent, Bradford writes.\u00a0 Boston offered multiple packages that included two of Jhostynxon Garcia<\/a>, Payton Tolle<\/a>, and Franklin Arias<\/a> as the headliners, with other names also involved from the top ten names on the club\u2019s prospect rankings.\u00a0 Since the Marlins and Twins didn\u2019t seem to be prioritizing the addition of big league players, Red Sox officials saw Alcantara and Ryan as particularly good fits since Boston didn\u2019t want to trade from its Major League roster.<\/p>\n

A match didn\u2019t happen, of course, and Bradford characterizes the talks with the Twins as somewhat one-sided on Boston\u2019s part.\u00a0 \u201cUltimately, Minnesota never acted, not informing the Red Sox chief decision-makers what level of offer would be needed to pull off\u2026.a move for a controllable ace starting pitcher,\u201d Bradford writes. \u00a0USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale<\/a> reported that the Twins actually did want some MLB-level talent, as Minnesota wanted either Jarren Duran<\/a> or Wilyer Abreu<\/a> in a Ryan trade package.<\/p>\n

As much as the Twins\u2019 deadline fire sale was about shedding payroll, Duran or Abreu are arbitration-controlled through the 2028 season.\u00a0 Obtaining a controllable starting outfielder would\u2019ve been a sign that the Twins still want to return to competitive baseball as soon as 2026, and Thursday\u2019s stunning set of moves wasn\u2019t the first step of a rebuild process.\u00a0 The club\u2019s other deadline moves saw multiple players with MLB experience obtained, including such names as Taj Bradley<\/a>, Mick Abel<\/a>, and James Outman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turning to the injury front, Nightengale writes that Marcelo Mayer<\/a> could be facing a season-ending wrist surgery, as the rookie infielder\u2019s \u201csprained wrist is more serious than the Red Sox initially envisioned.\u201d\u00a0 Mayer was placed on the 10-day IL a little over a week ago and he recently received an injection in his wrist to help with the healing process.<\/p>\n

Speaking with MassLive.com\u2019s Sean McAdam<\/a> and other reporters, Sox chief baseball officer Craig Breslow<\/a> didn\u2019t rule out the possibility of surgery.\u00a0 For now, the hope is that the injection \u201cgives him the best chance to be back on the field this season.\u00a0 It\u2019s a credit to him to try to do anything he can to get back.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayer has hit .228\/.272\/.402 over his first 136 plate appearances in the Show.\u00a0 While not a standout performance, it isn\u2019t unexpected for a player to need time to adjust to the majors, plus it helps that a healthy Mayer would be a luxury at this point for a crowded Red Sox infield.\u00a0 Now that Alex Bregman<\/a> is back from the IL and Ceddanne Rafaela<\/a> has moved into regular second-base duty, the team\u2019s everyday lineup is pretty set, so Mayer might only be in line for a bench role if he is able to get back to action.<\/p>\n

One player whose return seems a little more likely is Justin Slaten<\/a>, though Breslow warned that \u201cit\u2019s hard to put a timetable on it given the topsy-turvy nature of the recovery to date.\u201d\u00a0 Slaten hasn\u2019t pitched since May 28 due to right shoulder inflammation, though as the reliever told Bradford and company<\/a>, he was also dealing with a nerve issue related to his transverse bone.<\/p>\n

That problem has now been corrected, and Slaten\u2019s restarted throwing progression hit another checkpoint with a bullpen session on Saturday.\u00a0 The Sox will continue with a more gradual build-up and a minor league rehab assignment will surely be necessary given how much time Slaten has missed.\u00a0 If all goes well, Slaten feels he\u2019ll be back by September, and ready to continue building on what is becoming an impressive resume.\u00a0 Slaten has a 3.09 ERA over 78 2\/3 relief innings since making his MLB debut last season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a relatively quiet trade deadline for the Red Sox, as Dustin May and Steven Matz were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,4013,30567,13650,30568,30569,462,3988,82,4010],"class_list":{"0":"post-43067","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-jarren-duran","11":"tag-jhostynxon-garcia","12":"tag-joe-ryan","13":"tag-justin-slaten","14":"tag-marcelo-mayer","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-sandy-alcantara","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}