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BOSTON — Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet said Tuesday that he and the training staff still have no timetable in mind for when he will restart his throwing program.
Boston initially placed Crochet on the injured list with left shoulder inflammation on April 29. He threw to hitters May 26 in a one-inning simulated game but then felt lat tightness two days later. He hasn’t thrown a baseball since then.
“Making a lot of progress in the strength department right now,” Crochet said.
While the 27-year-old lefty continues to build up his shoulder strength in the training room, he doesn’t know what the trainers need to see before clearing him to throw.
“To be honest, I don’t really have an idea,” Crochet said. “I think just with the setbacks that I had in the past, we’ve been rightfully cautious. For me, I’m just kind of doing what I’m asked.”
He wouldn’t say whether there’s a chance he might not pitch again this season.
“It’s tough to say,” he said. “I’m not gonna make a claim like that.”
Crochet — who Boston transferred to the 60-day injured list on June 5 — initially hoped his IL stint would be the minimum 15 days.
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“I understand why you asked the question (about not pitching again this season). It sucks, though, because I remember when I went on the IL originally, I was like, ‘Maybe I’ll just miss one start,’” Crochet said. “And then the way that the injury just kind of matured, especially with the setback following the first ramp — it matured to a place where it’s just completely different from the original diagnosis, which sucks, but the shoulder’s complex like that."
He began throwing plyo balls (weighted balls) in mid-June but then stopped doing it near the beginning of July.
“Just not really making the progress that we were hoping to see,” he said. “Felt like I was kind of doing the two things at once — plyos and also strengthening. Felt like I kind of just reached a point where I started to plateau. We kind of felt like it was just going to extend the time that it would take the strength of my shoulder to be able to really advance in throwing.“
He said the diagnosis of shoulder inflammation has remained the same.
“Nothing’s changed in that regard,” he said.
He called the lat injury “super minor.”
“It was really just like strengthening the cuff to help support the capsule,” he said.
Crochet said he has not been inside the dugout during Boston’s 14-game winning streak.
“It was kind of just like the way that my schedule was working to get treatment in and not interfere with everyone else that’s playing,” Crochet said.
It sounds like it might have now turned into a superstitious decision.
He thought about going out to the dugout Saturday during the seventh inning after he finished his work.
“And then Wilyer (Abreu) hit the homer and I was like, ‘I’ve got to stay inside,’” Crochet said.
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