An already thin rotation took another hit yesterday, as the Boston Red Sox announced that Chris Sale would undergo Tommy John surgery. Unless you were living in a cave (and incidentally some of us are right now… metaphorically of course), most Sox fans knew that it was only a matter of time before Sale underwent the knife.
That leaves a rotation of Eduardo Rodriguez, Nathan Eovaldi, Martin Perez, and a bunch of unknowns. Eovaldi and E-Rod were impressive this spring before things got shut down, but having two excellent pitchers doesn’t mean squat when you need a formidable five-man rotation.