{"id":33602,"date":"2026-08-09T01:14:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33602"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:14:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:14:15","slug":"red-sox-announce-top-trade-acquisition-will-start-rehab-assignment-saturday-saratogian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=33602","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox announce top trade acquisition will start rehab assignment Saturday \u2013 Saratogian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Adley Rutschman will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Worcester on Saturday, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy announced on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdley is going to play tomorrow,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to catch five innings and get 2-3 at bats tomorrow in Worcester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rutschman has been on the 10-day injured list with left wrist inflammation since July 20, before he was dealt to the Red Sox ahead of Monday\u2019s trade deadline. The three-time All-Star catcher has been trending in the right direction ever since and prior to Friday\u2019s game Tracy said \u201cit\u2019s possible\u201d Rutschman could start a rehab assignment this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>After continuing to show progress throughout the day, Rutschman is now cleared to make his organizational debut.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his injury Rutschman was in the midst of a bounce back season in which he was batting .251 with eight home runs, 47 RBI, a .764 OPS and 1.9 Wins Above Replacement. Saturday will start at 20-day clock by which point he\u2019d have to either be activated or shut down, but barring any setbacks he could return to the big leagues sooner than that.<\/p>\n<p>Is Monday\u2019s series opener in Toronto in play?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have no idea,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cBeing that it\u2019s five innings right now maybe not but we\u2019ll talk through, it\u2019s his first game back and he\u2019s catching five innings so I\u2019m sure they\u2019re going to want to build him up a little bit so I\u2019m not going to put the cart before the horse.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adley Rutschman will begin a rehab assignment at Triple-A Worcester on Saturday, Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy announced on Friday night. \u201cAdley is going to play tomorrow,\u201d Tracy said. \u201cHe\u2019s going to catch five innings and get 2-3 at bats tomorrow in Worcester.\u201d Rutschman has been on the 10-day injured list with left wrist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.saratogian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP26132047745347.jpg?w=2000&h=1333","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-trending-viral-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}