Every roster spot in a major league organization is hugely important at this time of year, even those at Triple-A.
The Boston Red Sox have been trying to prepare their pitching staff for a potential playoff run, and that includes the promotion of several promising young arms from Double-A Portland to Triple-A Worcester.
That created a logjam in Worcester where the youngsters need to get their innings, in addition to having to option two arms — Brennan Bernandino and Cooper Criswell — to Triple-A to make room for big leaguers acquired at the trade deadline.
And someone had to pay the price.
As it turns out, that someone was 30-year-old Wyatt Mills, a big-leaguer from 2021 to 2022 who was spending his third year in the Red Sox organization, but his first actually getting to pitch.
The Red Sox actually released Mills on Sunday, but as MassLive’s Chris Cotillo pointed out on X, the WooSox game notes first published the transaction on Tuesday.
Boston traded for Mills in December of 2022, after he was designated by assignment by the Kansas City Royals. He then underwent Tommy John surgery in July of 2023 after being unable to throw a pitch to that point.
This season, Mills finally made his Red Sox organizational debut, pitching to a 3.12 ERA in 32 appearances, including seven starts. He struck out 49 batters, walked 30, and gave up 37 hits in 52 innings.
Mills has 38 games of major league experience with the Royals and Seattle Mariners, pitching to a 6.21 ERA.
The road back to the big leagues could be tough for Mills at this point, but perhaps he showed enough in Worcester for some other team to give him a shot. He just didn’t fit the Red Sox’s needs in the middle of their pennant chase.
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