Today’s news that the Red Sox will be starting the season without their southpaw ace Chris Sale shouldn’t come as much of a surprise. Though it’s been said that his elbow has been looking good to this point he did start spring training with a case of pneumonia. The illness forced interim manager Ron Roenicke to push back Sale’s workload and will inevitably force the lefty to miss Opening Day.
When one door closes another tends to open and the man that’s ready to walk through that entryway is Eduardo Rodriguez. Roenicke has said that physically Sale should only miss a couple of weeks but that could be all the time that E-Rod needs.