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Boston Red Sox injury updates on Triston Casas, Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer
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BOSTON — Red Sox ' Triston Casas said he's participating in "just about all baseball activities" but he's unsure if he will be ready for the start of the 2026 regular season.
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"I definitely want to make an impact from the first day," Casas said Saturday at Fenway Fest. "That'd be 11 months from the surgery. So that would be a tight squeeze in terms of the relative overall consensus of how long it would take to recover from what I had injured, but it's not unrealistic. I've talked to other players who have had the injury and they've said 11 months is very reasonable. So as of right now, not too sure. Not trying to get ahead of myself, but I do see myself progressing well enough to maybe get into some spring training games. We'll see how that goes because that's a benchmark as well."
He said he's increasing the volume of baseball activities but doesn't want to rush anything.
"Right around the 12-month mark is typically when all activity is supposed to return to normal," Casas said. "That's for me to I guess decide in a couple months — how I'm feeling up at that point. But I like the way I'm progressing. I've met every benchmark that I've had to up to now. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, but I surprise myself a lot just expecting pain in certain exercises that I don't have and I'm happy about that."
Marcelo Mayer update
Mayer, who underwent season-ending wrist surgery Aug. 20 , said he expects to be ready to fully participate in workouts once spring training begins.
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"I'm pretty much doing full baseball activity, like a normal ramp-up, as I would for a regular season going into spring training," Mayer said. "So I feel like I'm in a good spot."
Roman Anthony update
Anthony will be a full-go at the beginning of spring training. An oblique injury suffered in early September forced him to miss the final few weeks and the postseason.
"I had about a month and a half of hardcore rehab," Anthony said. "And then by like that two-month mark around Thanksgiving, maybe a little bit before that, I was finally throwing med balls hard, rotating hard, doing things where I say, OK, I could get into a cage right now, be confident that I could swing and not only swing, but take a pitch and kind of emulate that same check swing-ish movement that happened. It was a work in progress. Obviously it was a little bit different of a mindset after we unfortunately lost."
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The Red Sox hoped he would be able to return for the ALCS if the team made it that far. But he slowed down his rehab once the Red Sox were eliminated and there was no need to push it.
"It sucked, but it was huge for me in the sense that I learned a lot about myself, about my body and what it takes for me to get ready each and every day, what I need to take to 2026 in order to play 162 and beyond," Anthony added.
Kutter Crawford update
Starter Kutter Crawford should experience a normal spring training after missing last year due to both a knee injury and wrist surgery.
"At this point, it's just normal progression," he said. "I got off the slope yesterday, and it felt good. And now we just build up the mound progression."
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