Kutter Crawford had an off-field "accident" that requires season-ending surgery on his right throwing wrist, Red Sox manager Alex Cora said on Wednesday, adding that the 29-year-old wasn't doing anything "irresponsible."
"It hasn't been a great year for him," Cora said. "It stinks that it happened this way, but it's just an accident."
Crawford has been sidelined all season by a right-knee injury that he initially suffered in his third game of 2024, a season in which he went 9-6 with a 4.36 ERA in 33 starts, tied for the most starts in the American League.
"It stinks because we were talking about how deep we were in spring training, and the options that we had in the rotation," Cora said before the series finale against the Los Angeles Angels. "And now it's getting thinner and thinner."
Crawford was one of baseball's most durable pitchers in 2024 despite pitching most of the season with patellar-tendon discomfort, leading the Red Sox with 183 ? innings pitched and 175 strikeouts, but he also gave up a major league-high 34 homers.