Josh Winckowski makes his big league debut Saturday. The 23-year-old will get the start for the second game of the Red Sox’ doubleheader against the Orioles.
Here are seven things to know about Winckowski as he makes his first career start.
He was one of the players acquired in the Andrew Benintendi trade.
When Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom traded Benintendi to the Royals in February 2021, he decided to acquire several minor leaguers as opposed to a big leaguer. Winckowski was one of the five players that went to Boston as part of the three-team deal, which also included the Mets, joining Franchy Cordero and three players to be named later (which eventually became outfielder Freddy Valdez plus pitchers Grant Gambrell and Luis De La Rosa).