Gambrell has a 1.62 ERA over three starts since being promoted to Double-A Portland.
The right-hander opened the season at High-A Greenville, where he had a 4.88 ERA over six starts, but he has posted better results since ascending to Portland on May 18. One of the players acquired in the Andrew Benintendi trade, Gambrell is coming back from a lost 2022 season, when he underwent multiple surgeries to remove a benign tumor from his heel bone, Christopher Smith of MassLive.com reports -- an issue that began bothering him back in 2020, pre-pandemic. Gambrell credits changing his primary fastball from a four-seamer to a two-seamer for his recent success.
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Red Sox's Grant Gambrell: Debuts at High-A
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Gambrell (ankle) made his season debut Thursday in High-A Greenville's 10-8 loss to Asheville, covering 4.2 innings and striking out six while allowing four earned runs on seven hits and four walks.
Though Gambrell wasn't sharp in his season debut, the Red Sox organization was likely just content to see the right-hander healthy again after he had his entire 2022 campaign wiped out by an ankle injury. The 25-year-old will likely need to string together several quality outings in a row before Boston will entertain promoting him to Double-A Portland.
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Red Sox's Grant Gambrell: Sidelined by ankle
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Gambrell has not yet pitched in 2022 due to an ankle injury, Christopher Smith of MassLive.com reports.
Gambrell is still in Fort Myers rehabbing the injury. The 24-year-old righty was one of the players to be named later in the Andrew Benintendi trade. At the time of his acquisition, Boston general manager Chaim Bloom described Gambrell as a potential workhorse in either a starting or relief capacity who has a power arsenal with two different fastballs, a breaking ball and a changeup.
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Red Sox's Grant Gambrell: Shipped to Boston
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Gambrell was traded to Boston on Friday as a player to be named later in the deal that sent Andrew Benintendi to the Royals, Julian McWilliams of The Boston Globe reports.
Benintendi was moved to the Royals last offseason in a three-team trade that also involved the Mets, but there remained parts of the trade that had not been completed as of Friday. Gambrell will now head to the Red Sox organization after spending 2019 and the beginning of this season in the lower levels of the Royals' farm system.
