Trevor Story’s tenure with the Boston Pink Sox has been suboptimal from the very begin. If Boston’s beat reporters are to be believed, that tenure could be nearing an finish quickly.
Questions arose nearly instantly after Boston signed the shortstop to a six-year, $140M contract earlier than the 2022 season. Boston appeared set on the place with Xander Bogaerts, and few understood what the entrance workplace was pondering in signing one other shortstop. It additionally appeared significantly curious that the membership hadn’t as a substitute approached Bogaerts a couple of contract extension.
Story slid over to second base in that first season in Boston however struggled mightily on the plate. He would miss greater than a month resulting from a hand damage and was restricted to showing in simply 94 video games, which might show to be the high-water mark of his Pink Sox profession.
Accidents have continued to plague Story since. That subsequent spring, he underwent surgical procedure to restore a tear in his UCL that may hold him off the sector till August. Then final season, he fractured his shoulder in early April and was out almost the whole season.
By means of his first three seasons in Boston, Story failed to seem in additional than 100 video games. He hit a collective .232/.296/.397 (89 OPS+) in that stretch, with simply 21 residence runs.
MassLive’s Chris Cotillo and Sean McAdam mentioned Story on Tuesday’s episode of the “Fenway Rundown” podcast. Cotillo’s ideas on Story’s future had been pointed:
“This can be a man who got here out tremendous sizzling. We had been speaking on this present about, will he choose out on the finish of this season? I do not assume he’ll. Will the Pink Sox choose out I believe is the larger query.
“You hate to see a man who’s a very good man and a very good clubhouse chief, somebody you and I each actually like, be in DFA territory.”
