Red Sox ‘Very Close’ To Shutting Down All-Star Reliever For Season

Copen, a 6-foot-6 right-hander, started the season at Rancho Cucamonga, a Class-A facility. He was 5-2 in 13 games (11 starts) with a 3.15 ERA in 54.1 innings.

Copen received a promotion to Great Lakes, the Dodgers’ Class-A Midwest League affiliate, on June 25.

Copen was 3-2 with a 4.21 ERA in eight starts for the Loons, recording 36.1 innings pitched with 35 strikeouts and 27 walks. He was being hit only.248 by opponents.

Copen has made 24 appearances in minor league games over the course of the last two seasons, starting 21 of them. The product of Parkersburg, West Virginia, has pitched 95 innings, giving up just 76 hits, walking 55, and striking out 97.

The native of Belpre, Ohio spent four years as a baseball player at Parkersburg Catholic High School.

Hendriks signed with Boston in the offseason with the intention of making his Red Sox debut after undergoing Tommy John surgery late in the previous year. In his 13 MLB seasons, he has amassed 116 saves and a lifetime ERA of 3.82. With just 17 games left, the Red Sox are four games out of the last American League postseason place, meaning there won’t be much time for Boston to see Hendriks play.