Red Sox shut down Crawford due to wrist injury

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Boston Red Sox are pausing pitcher Kutter Crawford's rehab owed to a wrist injury, according to manager Alex Cora.

Crawford, 29, hasn't pitched successful a crippled this play owed to genu and wrist issues. He threw his 2nd bullpen league of the week connected Friday successful the hopes of progressing to a rehab duty but suffered a setback with the wrist.

The right-hander is acceptable to alert to Boston for further investigating successful the coming days.

"He wasn't capable to make velocity," Cora said Saturday morning. "That's a concern."

Crawford made a league precocious 33 starts past season, compiling 183⅔ innings but a lingering genu contented prevented him from starting the twelvemonth healthy. That was followed by wrist pain, starring to him being unopen down.

"We'll cognize much adjacent week," Cora said.

Meanwhile, recently acquired pitcher Jordan Hicks (toe) volition statesman a rehab duty with Triple-A Worcester connected Sunday portion 3rd baseman Alex Bregman (quad) is besides progressing.

"[Saturday] was a large time for him," Cora said.

Cora indicated Bregman tends to accidental he's further on than mightiness beryllium existent truthful the squad volition confer with doctors portion besides listening to the subordinate successful presumption of erstwhile he's acceptable to return.

"We ever comparison him to Dustin [Pedroia]," Cora said with a smile. "If Dustin said 80 percent, I'd accidental it was 65 percent. "But he's [Bregman] feeling better. He's excited astir everything going connected here. Just anxious to travel back."