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Interim manager Chad Tracy has had enough of starting pitcher Brayan Bello’s unpredictable starts every fifth day and officially optioned the right-hander to Triple-A Worcester, WBZ reports.
Brayan Bello was optioned to the TrIple-AAA @WooSox after today’s Red Sox loss to the Orioles – sources tell @WBZ
— Dan Roche (@RochieWBZ) June 5, 2026
Bello’s case is an interesting one.
Bello looked unhittable in four of his six starts in the month of May. He allowed zero earned runs in back-to-back starts to end the month, but the team came up short on both occasions.
In the first two starts of May, he went seven innings and six and one-third innings, allowing just one earned run in each.
However, in all four of those good “starts,” Tracy was forced to use an opener out of the bullpen. This led to Boston losing three of the four.
In the two starts that Bello pitched in the first inning, he allowed seven and eight runs, respectively.
This spiked his ERA to a league-worst 6.34.
Instead of continuing to play the will-he won’t-he game with the bullpen, Tracy has elected to send the 27-year-old, who has spent the last five seasons in Boston, down to the Woo-Sox.
It’s a shocking move, but if his ace, Garrett Crochet, returns from injury in the next week, there will not be space in the rotation for a guy with a 6.43 ERA regardless.
