BOSTON — The news about Dustin Pedroia’s left knee following a visit to his surgeon in New York on Tuesday sounded about as good as can be.
“With Pedey, everything about the surgery is fine,” manager Alex Cora said after a 6-0 Red Sox win over the Detroit Tigers. “He just has some inflammation. I was actually talking to him during the game. It’s kind of like with David [Price], after he saw the doctor, now he can calm down and get treatment and hopefully he’ll be with us sooner than later. It’s nothing that has to do with surgery, so that’s good.”
The plan now: treatment on Wednesday after Pedroia, who returned to the disabled list on Saturday, went a couple days without treatment and then possibly baseball activities, “probably starting in two days,” Cora said.
The potential for a relatively quick return seems to exist. While the Red Sox don’t think Pedroia rushed back from the DL, the fact that he played three big-league games before returning to the DL suggests that they’d be wise to be perhaps abundantly, over-the-top cautious this time.