Alex Cora on Boston Red Sox 1B Triston Casas’ defense: ‘Inconsistent’

BOSTON — Triston Casas’ offensive hunch to start the 2025 season has been effectively documented. He’s 12-for-76 (.158 batting common) with a .229 on-base proportion, .237 slugging proportion, .466 OPS, one homer, three doubles, 4 RBIs and three runs in 21 video games.

The 25-year-old first baseman, who started the 12 months because the cleanup hitter and has been moved right down to seventh within the batting order, additionally has negative-2 defensive runs saved in 174 innings at first base, per Fangraphs.

He’s within the thirteenth percentile in vary/outs above common (-2), per Baseball Savant. He’s within the 18th percentile in run fielding worth (-1).

“Inconsistent,“ manager Alex Cora said about Casas’ defense Tuesday. ”Yeah, inconsistent. There’s a number of issues that we’re engaged on with him and we imagine he may be significantly better.”

Casas has logged 19 begins at first base and made two errors there. What areas are he and the Pink Sox engaged on?

“The first step,” Cora mentioned. “We were trying to work on his pre-pitch in spring training. He’s fallen into some bad habits lately. But if we can get that one down, he’ll be better. He’s making throws. He makes every throw at first base. That’s really good. But yeah, we gotta get him moving at first.”

Casas has negative-9 defensive runs saved in 1,921 profession innings at first base, per Fangraphs. He had negative-1 defensive runs saved in 512 innings final 12 months.