Felger and Mazz react to Roman Anthony likely missing the rest of the 2025 regular season.
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00:00because that's a potentially big injury last night in what was a i thought a pretty good red
00:04sox win last night over the guardians but anyway that's where we begin maz and murray alongside
00:10from our town fair tiger studios how you guys doing good you very good hi what's your temperature
00:14on the red sox right now maz uh poor very poor in fact i don't know any other way to say this
00:19so i'm just gonna say this because it's been building up since last night and it's been
00:23building up today i feel like it's starting to come apart and i know that's a dramatic statement
00:29that is dramatic you come on okay but so murray i've given this a lot of thought i was having
00:34this discussion with jimmy stewart in the hallway just a short time ago that over the years i get
00:39grief from red sox fans for not buying in early enough right okay 2013 yeah maz you don't believe
00:462018 comes along they win 108 games yeah maz i know you said you're waiting to see what they're
00:52gonna do to the playoff start what do you think now so you know what i blame the fans this is why
01:01i don't buy in because a crap like last night in the span of a few minutes roman anthony went down
01:08and garrett crochet turned into a pumpkin and i am worried i i'm uh i'm worried about crochet i think
01:15he's fading i think that i'm on that i think that that is becoming more apparent as we go the last
01:22start even though the ultimate pitching line was good the one before last night i don't think he
01:27pitched very well he didn't look good uh prior to that a few starts before he had a bad outing which
01:33he gave up five runs his era in his last five starts is 4.80 he's never pitched this many innings
01:40anthony now has had the same injury twice and i'm a pessimist when it comes to oblique injuries
01:45i think he's going to be out for weeks like you know i and if he comes back i don't think you're
01:51going to see the same kind of uh force if he can even swing the bat i think you just may have lost
01:56your two best players last night did you hear uh anthony after the game i mean so this is what sort
02:01of makes gives me pause both him and alex bregman just their reaction to it uh i guess anthony's had
02:08some back problems in the past yeah okay so here's what he said last night jimmy if you have it
02:12one of those things that just cropped up on you today you've been dealing with this for a while
02:16uh no i felt it today on the check swing uh pitch before i swung a miss for a strikeout and uh
02:22yeah just pretty sudden what's your concern level right now um i'm not really sure um i'll see you
02:30more after the mri have you ever experienced oblique issues before uh no i have not
02:37in terms of severity is this different than you know like you you got scratched for the lower back
02:44is this comparable in terms of discomfort or is it pretty clearly separate uh yeah this is this is
02:49definitely worse um in terms of the way it feels um but you know that's right now and i just again
02:56have to reevaluate where i'm at tomorrow and uh you know see where we are with when the mri comes
03:02back okay you can stop there this is worse he said it was worse yeah i think they told him not to just
03:08to repeat that line the look on his face too was the look on his face the tone of his voice and the
03:13fact it was worse than what he experienced before i'm sorry jimmy no no the look on his face when i saw
03:19this i was like oh boy this is bad like and just the tone too like it feels like someone that just got
03:23bad news or he just knows just from the physical nature of it like i'm in trouble here i just think
03:29it was a major blow last night despite the win and look the win counts or something although both
03:35toronto and new york won and this is the life you're living now every day every game your scoreboard
03:40watching it's great stuff i love the theater of it it's tremendous and you know the blue jays
03:46slugged their way to a win last night the yankees won decisively but i think the red sox season
03:51last night just got a stop in pork city utah pork city that's where you're going i think you just
03:58got boned last night well again the the early tone on the anthony injury not good you heard anthony
04:03himself alex bregman jimmy if you have it said this given that it's september now you guys had lost
04:08anthony at that point garrett start finished great and then you guys come back and when does it feel
04:13like one of the bigger wins of the year in here i don't know um i feel like we're we're kind of in
04:19that september mode right now where like the neck it's next pitch next pitch next pitch uh mentality
04:24of um just execute the next pitch of the next play the next game and um obviously uh losing roman
04:33today is is a gut punch obviously uh one of the best players in all of baseball um but we we got
04:41to continue to to push along and um nobody needs to try and do more no one trying needs to try and do
04:47uh more than they're capable of they just need to try and execute their game plan um the same way
04:53that uh we've been talking about all year long and um continue to find ways to win uh whether it's
04:59high scoring games um pitching and playing good defense stealing a big base moving a guy over
05:04um we're we're i think two and a half back or something and it's it's uh meaningful games in
05:12september and all that matters is winning so um i think the guys in here have the right mentality
05:17obviously today was a bit of a gut punch for us but um everyone in here is mature enough to know
05:23uh to show up tomorrow ready to execute and compete and continue to do that for the rest of the month
05:27and into the postseason okay he he's talking like he's out he used the term big blow they just had a
05:32big win that was a big win i mean a game they could have lost they came back a couple different times
05:38got clutched there in the eighth inning starting with him him legging out that grounder was i thought
05:43a game-winning play you know winning kind of play from a winning player and like good stuff building
05:48was jumping and he's talking like we all just have to you know do what we're doing not trying
05:54to overcompensate and he's talking like he's out like he's out out and so i wonder i bet he's out
06:02out you mean anthony oh yes out out for the year yeah or something like that no so i think it's
06:07going to be something not now let me he's carrying on as a gut punch so now let me let me give you
06:12the uh because i because those oblique injuries might can be half a season i mean they can be
06:17uh but that that's the that's what it's i know i know and i'll tell you anthony's a huge blow
06:22because if you you subscribe to the theory that their season changed when roman anthony arrived which
06:29i do okay a lot a lot of people do then now it's life without him however i will say i'm a pessimist
06:36by nature no okay so i always think they should still make the playoffs oh hell yeah okay what
06:44they're what they are going to be when they get there is questionable but they should they're six
06:50games up on the first team that's out on the number four team in the wild card race they're
06:55six up in the loss column with 20 to go or whatever the number is now i'll give you the exact number of
07:02games it's 22 to play they've played 140 games they're six up so oh no they're making the playoffs
07:08that's not on the table so you should get in you should absolutely make the playoffs and what you
07:14got to hope for is that in four weeks he recovers and can play and crochet gets his ass or act together
07:21and uh peyton totally is like you're gonna have to win with pitching now you're gonna have to do it
07:25that way but you know to last night just to me was alarming that was an alarming victory well so
07:33there's anthony and then there's crochet even now we got a small sample size go ahead well i mean
07:40maz you just gave me his last five starts yeah the last seven according to uh boston sports imp
07:46our buddy john last seven starts 10 home runs given up uh well 43 innings pitched era of over four
07:564.19 home runs per nine 2.09 you know two home runs every nine innings uh then that uh his last
08:07five starts you just said you know again last five starts 30 hits over 30 innings eight home runs
08:14era of 4.80 yep uh and this is all from a guy that the big thing when they signed him is what
08:21what can he do with the full workload he's never really had it it's catching up with him so here
08:26he's had a full workload and is it catching up with them murray feels that way they were teeing off on
08:30him last night you know maz and i were texting because maz hit a home run parlay and then i was
08:34like this game's going completely sideways crochet like he's kind of turned into a pumpkin i don't think
08:39he's you know the arm maybe he's feeling something physically or he's just not used to this but he
08:43hasn't looked like the same guy over the last at least four stars did you see the pitches he gave
08:47up the home runs on yeah yeah meatballs overweight cut fastballs fat pitches right in the middle of
08:54the plate with with very little on them in the way of movement or cut so like here's the other thing
09:00too if like if if that is fading on him just throw your reference fastball like what is this that this
09:07need that they all feel to f around and dink around and you got to mix up the pitches and i
09:13understand they're big league hitters but if you're throwing fat pitches like that in the middle of
09:17the plate and some scrubs from the indians are jacking them over the left field wall stop throwing
09:23the effing pitch seriously you're gonna give up you're gonna blow a 5-1 to lead that to that bunch
09:30of hacks where does their lineup rank in the league in terms of home runs and production it's got to be
09:35one of the worst no idea so i'll look it up for you but jesus enough of that like it's ridiculous
09:42every one of those pitches was a 92 mile an hour cutter and and look i get that the velocity is
09:48going to be in that area but they were like hanging sliders in the middle of the plate
09:52just waiting to be freaking tattooed into the left field seats all that being said i that was a good
09:58win i mean they excuse me they overcame all yeah they overcame and they were clutch late which is
10:07not something that they always are so uh good win do we have something over there yeah
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10:20talking about roman anthony according to manager alex cora he just said on the competition the red
10:25sox are placing i'll feel the roman anthony on the injured list with an oblique strain he could be out
10:29four to six weeks i'm telling you the way they were talking last night it was like they already lost
10:34them yeah i mean again i think it's an automatic month with those things anthony had the dying bad
10:39diagnosis face like something a doctor tells you like he just as soon as i saw it before i listened
10:43to the clip i was like oh jesus like this is not gonna be good it's about the worst injury you can
10:47get for a hitter short of you know a broken wrist or something with your hands well it's all about
10:53torque you can't exactly well so wait exactly you just said four to six weeks that's what cora said
10:58there's so 23 games left right he's out for the season yeah he's out for the regular season oh that
11:03is a absolute crusher yeah kicking the balls so so now look what you have to hope for is i just i'm
11:10sorry like i we felt it i could feel it immediately when i heard those post-game cuts people don't you
11:15don't realize like you can tell internally they a lot of times they know immediately and you can this
11:23is why it's uh felger mazza media school 101 or just a little quick uh diversion here this is why
11:28you want beat reporters and people in the locker room i don't know if the red socks guys were picking
11:33up on it i don't know what they were reporting overnight but i just was on tv last night we played
11:37the post-game sound as soon as i heard roman anthony and alex bregman i said they probably know already
11:43they're talking like and that's how you pick up on that then no small deal that blows he's done for
11:50the year yeah yeah and again look not to like you know to try to rub people's noses in it but you
11:56get all geeked up about these young players and i like anthony too marcello meyer's out for the year
12:03christian campbell's in triple a and roman anthony's now going to miss the final month don't forget will
12:08you can't run so and there's that too so now they've all broken down none of them are available as
12:15you're playing this final month of the season and i would say that in some ways i'm not surprised
12:21so you ask a guy all of a sudden you know they play whatever i'll call it 120 games in the minor
12:26leagues in any particular given season then you get to the big leagues and all of a sudden it's 162 with
12:32no days off and you got to grind your way through it and in the case of roman anthony who's a big kid
12:38he's still 21 and probably isn't as strong as he should be christian campbell certainly isn't as
12:44strong as he should be i'm not blaming him for it i'm just telling you it's the reality of being that
12:49age you have no idea how your body is going to react until you start playing the schedule
12:54marcello meyer's another one and i would say that anthony has pretty close to a big league body
13:00campbell wasn't even close and his wasn't injury related but you have no idea what's going to happen
13:06when they get here okay so breaking news at this hour roman anthony placed on the il expected to
13:12miss four to six weeks fyi there's four weeks left in the season basically do you have the date of
13:19their last day is it october is it september 28th uh so i believe that that is correct mike i just have
13:26my calendar in front of me and that's the last i know there's 20 september 28th okay so season ends
13:33in three and a half weeks he's out four to six that's it for roman anthony that sucks that blows
13:39big time and is garrett crochet running out of gas is that also on the table oh uh you know not not
13:48quite parenthetically is your ace pitcher running out of steam as should have been the really biggest
13:54concern with him when you signed him and you sort of explained it away last year well ah he has been a
13:59contract thing he you know he wasn't going to go all out he was in a thing with the white socks they
14:03weren't going to pitch him they were trying to trade him he wasn't going to okay that was all a contract
14:07thing well okay maybe it is maybe it's not maybe it's just a guy for the first time having to go
14:12every five days and not being able to do it for a full season so there's that what'd you say
14:18master open the open the segment on the red socks that i think they're they're boned uh it wasn't
14:25bone i think you said they're falling apart oh yeah it's all coming apart but now boned they're
14:29just changed in six minutes so we were just we just upgraded the and you know yeah and you said
14:35you know that sounds dramatic so now we're going to go from falling apart to full bone zone yes again
14:40pork city right hop on the plane babe let's go skiing pork city now here's here's here's the good news
14:47if you believe in it you should still make the playoffs yeah they're going to absolutely they
14:54should still make the playoffs and i'm eager to see how the red socks handle this now because
14:58peyton told he's going to pitch friday night they might need a little more out of him than they
15:04thought so what are you going to do you're going to back him off now and i'm not saying that you know
15:09you got to all of a sudden let him go eight or nine innings but instead of once a week can you pitch
15:13him every six days can you bump him up a little bit put a little bit more on him and let you know try
15:19to try to at least have some momentum getting into the postseason hope that anthony comes back
15:23because to me you just don't want to leak this one out the window i'm sorry no
15:28you