Overview
- The Red Sox selected right-hander Wyatt Olds to the 40-man roster and promoted him to the active roster on Monday while optioning left-hander Raymond Burgos to Triple-A Worcester.
- Burgos logged 10 innings across three major-league appearances in roughly 10 days, including back-to-back three-inning outings and a rain-delayed four-inning stint, prompting the club to give him a rest assignment.
- Olds, 27, arrives for his first big-league stint after posting a 5.33 ERA and 74 strikeouts in 50.2 Triple-A innings this season and is viewed by the club as a right-handed, swing-and-miss arm with a mid-90s fastball and hard slider.
- The short-term move responds to reduced right-handed bullpen depth after Justin Slaten and Garrett Whitlock went to the injured list and preserves roster flexibility by using Burgos’s option to Worcester.
- Olds said WooSox staff staged a prank to get him to Polar Park before the promotion was revealed and the club will now use him for length in relief while Burgos recovers, so reporters and fans should watch his command and strikeout ability as the key test.