COOKED?: Are the Boston Red Sox DOOMED Without Wilson Contreras? Gasper Steps Up to DELIVER

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Are the Boston Red Sox cooked with Wilson Contreras on the injured list?

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Hello and welcome to Locked On Red Sox, your daily Boston Red Sox podcast. I'm your host, Gabby Maljanian, and today's episode is brought to you by Kelshi. For a limited time, download the Kelshi app and use code LOCKEDON to get $10 when you trade $10. Happy Tuesday. Welcome to the show. And well, let's just say there's been a lot of aftermath. since the Red Sox-Yankees series over the weekend concluded, including some comments by Will Fleming that have gone viral and have caused a big stir among baseball fans. I'm going to be touching on that a little bit later on in today's show, as well as Sonny Gray's extended time and why he's missing his next start, and are the Red Sox cooked without Wilson Contreras? Now, this has been a team that's faced a revolving door of injuries this season, and it seems like they just can't stay healthy, and as soon as people start getting healthy, somebody else gets hurt, and that's the case, at least it seems to be based on what's been going on as of late. And they finally get Trevor Story and Roman Anthony back. But now Wilson Contreras is hurt and he has been placed on the injured list because of it. So for weeks, he's kind of been dealing with a bulky left hamstring. And then yesterday, the issue just became too much for him to continue to play through it because he has been playing through it. And we've seen his results take a bit of a downturn because of it. Before... Yesterday's game, the Red Sox placed him on the 10-day injured list with a left hamstring strain and called up Mickey Gasper from AAA one day after sending him down as part of a roster crunch. And Mickey Gasper... will be playing first base at least for the foreseeable future until they really dissect how long Wilson's for sure going to be out. Because you never know with these injuries. Sometimes they'll say, yep, it's season ending. Sometimes they'll say, just got to take it day to day. But they just got to kind of continue to feel that out. But Contreras actually left space. Sunday's game against the Yankees early due to hamstring soreness, which was very logical. If you're feeling the soreness, why