{"id":3826,"date":"2026-06-28T23:37:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3826"},"modified":"2026-06-28T23:37:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T23:37:10","slug":"romy-gonzalez-returns-to-red-sox-who-demote-mickey-gasper-back-to-worcester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3826","title":{"rendered":"Romy Gonzalez returns to Red Sox, who demote Mickey Gasper back to Worcester"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>Finally, <b>Romy Gonzalez<\/b> had his personal Opening Day on Sunday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The Red Sox activated him for his season debut, in which he batted fifth as the designated hitter against the Yankees at Fenway Park, marking the end of a long injury saga that began last September.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3824\">See how this former HGTV couple lovingly restores some of Massachusetts\u2019 oldest homes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>When a slide jarred his left shoulder, he never would have imagined what ensued: playing hurt in the final days of the season, trying to recuperate through the offseason, suffering a setback in January, showing up to spring training behind everybody else, trying to avoid surgery, having surgery.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>That was March. It was an arthroscopic debridement. Gonzalez sat out the first half of the season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cObviously, I didn\u2019t think this would be this serious. I\u2019m happy I got it done. Just super excited to be back,\u201d Gonzalez said before the game. \u201cJust grateful \u2026 I\u2019m excited to put the Boston Red Sox uniform back on and just competing and having fun with the boys.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>In Saturday&#8217;s Red Sox win over Yankees, Jarren Duran has incident with heckler in eighth inning<\/div>\n<p><span>The Red Sox plan to use Gonzalez at DH and second base, as well as first base when they want to spot <b>Willson Contreras<\/b>, interim manager <b>Chad Tracy<\/b> said. But it won\u2019t be in an everyday role, at least not at first. Gonzalez will play against lefthanded pitchers, including the Yankees\u2019 <b>Carlos Rod\u00f3n<\/b>, and some righties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWe can strategically do this and get him in there in favorable matchups,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cWe need to just make sure that we don\u2019t overdo it. But having the bat there is important.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In his rehab assignment with Double-A Portland and Triple-A Worcester, Gonzalez went 2 for 18 in six games \u2014 but never played more than two consecutive days.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTo go out there and play second three days in a row right out of the chute \u2014 that\u2019s not going to happen,\u201d Tracy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3822\">\u2018I Will Find You\u2019: In Netflix\u2019s new Boston-set mystery, a Revere dad and a former Globie search for the truth<\/a><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Jake Bennett has been everything the Red Sox could have hoped for when they traded for him in the offseason<\/div>\n<p><span>To make room for Gonzalez, the Red Sox demoted <b>Mickey Gasper<\/b> to Worcester. His nearly two months with the big league club included being called up as a third catcher\/lefthanded bat, an initial relative hot streak, an ascension to the top of the catcher depth chart, some run as the leadoff man, and an extended cold streak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Gasper went 7 for 17 in his first five games and had a .211\/.280\/.267 slash line in the next 29. He batted in the top five of the order 18 times in 27 starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHis swings obviously have cooled off a little bit with the bat,\u201d Tracy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>To clear a spot on the 40-man roster, the Red Sox transferred <b>Roman Anthony<\/b> (right hand\/wrist sprain) to the 60-day injured list. That does not change anything about his situation\/when he\u2019ll return. Anthony has not started swinging, Tracy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Duran sits again<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>For a second time in five games, <b>Jarren Duran<\/b> was on the bench against a lefthanded starter in favor of <b>Nate Eaton<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Duran entered the day with a .198 average on the year, including .148 in June.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cTake a breather,\u201d Tracy said, echoing his sentiment from Wednesday in Colorado. \u201cWe got two righties coming up for Washington the next two days. He\u2019ll be right back there.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2>Story time?<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><span><b>Trevor Story<\/b> (sports hernia surgery) is doing \u201ceverything baseball-related [in] some capacity, even if it\u2019s not at full speed,\u201d Tracy said. But him going on a rehab assignment before the All-Star break is \u201cprobably too optimistic\u201d \u2026 <b>Patrick Sandoval\u2019s<\/b> fifth rehab start, with Worcester on Sunday: four innings, one run, three hits. He threw 60 pitches. Tracy said Sandoval will make at least one more start before the Sox consider activating him \u2026 In the same game, <b>Jovani Mor\u00e1n<\/b> needed only 14 pitches to get through two innings. The Sox haven\u2019t decided if he\u2019ll make another rehab appearance \u2026 For a fourth day in a row, the Red Sox didn\u2019t take batting practice on the field. The first two occasions were travel-related, limiting the workload so players could rest\/arrive late, and Saturday was a day game, when skipping BP is normal. And Sunday? \u201cIn the time we did that, we also have played very good baseball,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cIf it ain\u2019t broke right now, don\u2019t fix it. Just let them go out there\u201d \u2026 Tracy on the Red Sox going all the way to Southern California on Wednesday to start an Anaheim-Chicago-New York road trip: \u201cIt is a long way to go for three days.\u201d He is glad the Sox have a day off before and after.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3820\">Ukraine\u2019s drone set another Russian oil refinery ablaze, as Putin admits fuel shortages<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gonzalez made his season debut against the Yankees after missing 81 games following shoulder surgery in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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