Brewers’ Aaron Hill traded to Red Sox

Seniority rules, so let’s begin with Wilkerson, a 27-year-old right-handed pitcher with an interesting career path. Wilkerson went undrafted out of college, and pitched in independent ball for parts of two seasons before being picked up by the Red Sox in 2014.

“We’ve been a little vulnerable to lefthanded pitching”. Hill will be a free agent come the end of this season.

Stearns also said the Brewers won’t announce Hill’s replacement on the 25-man roster until Friday.

“Clearly, what he’s done this year has put him on the brink of a major-league career”.

And yet again on Friday night, O’Sullivan submitted an ordinary performance and the Red Sox played an inspired game behind him, going 5-for-10 with runners in scoring position, stealing four bases and edging out Chris Archer and the Rays in a 6-4 win at Fenway Park. Nonetheless, Dombrowski felt that Hill was excited to be joining a contender. Milwaukee’s current shortstop, Jonathan Villar, has played very well, but he’s always been destined to lose his job to a phenom prospect for the second time in as many years.

Once he joins the team, it would be expected Marco Hernandez would go back down to Triple-A where he could play every day and Martinez would become the team’s utility player with Brock Holt playing nearly every day in left field.

Shaw is second on the team in doubles and has 48 RBI, but has struggled against lefties, with a slash line of.211/.240/.380. He’s just the second player since at least 1913 to collect 34 doubles, 21 homers and 70 RBIs before the All-Star break. Either the front office didn’t see Wilkerson as a viable option and sold high or he was expendable because the Red Sox are looking to bring in a more reliable option. “We think [Hill] makes us better”. Shaw, who fouled a ball off of his foot, received x-rays last night which came back negative and is listed as day-to-day. In two starts against the Rays this season he is 2-0 with a 2.77 ERA.

“I don’t want him just be groomed as a one-inning guy”, Farrell said. Aaron Wilkerson had been on the Red Sox 40-man-roster, and was almost promoted last week until the team chose to go with Sean O’Sullivan.

Rijo was pretty much entirely blocked in the Red Sox organization behind Yoan Moncada in the minors and obviously Dustin Pedroia at the Major League Baseball level. Rijo was ranked the Red Sox 15th best prospect after the 2015 season.