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Tom Verducci

After Triston Casas Injury, Talented Red Sox Urgently Need a Clear Plan

Triston Casas Alex Cora Red Sox Anthony Rizzo Roman Anthony Marcelo Mayer Rafael Devers the Red Sox Alex Bregman Craig Breslow
Another injury to Casas means the Red Sox must make a tough decision at first base. | Eric Canha-Imagn Images

The Boston Red Sox are one of the two best baserunning teams in the American League, they could well be only the second team in franchise history to lead the league in stolen bases, they are the most athletic of the seven teams Alex Cora has managed and they have elite major league prospects at the ready. And yet here they are a .500 team 36 games into the season and pushed to a pivotal point by the season-ending knee injury to first baseman Triston Casas.

Ready or not, the Red Sox are on the clock to figure out a path forward—and it is not the stopgap measure of Romy Gonzalez and Abraham Toro at first base.

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