In San Francisco, he was too young. In Tampa Bay, rarely healthy. In Cleveland, thoroughly redundant. But in Boston, on a nothing-left-to-lose Red Sox team, Christian Arroyo just might be the right fit at the right time.
He’s 25 years old with a prospect’s toolkit, a minor-league track record, and not much of a big-league resume. He can play a position of need right now, and just might offer some lingering upside for the future. A contending team might not have the patience to keep him in the lineup, but the Red Sox are in audition mode – when they’re not in survival mode – and Arroyo looks like their regular second baseman for at least the next two weeks.
“Most of the time, I think that’s what we’d like to do,” manager Ron Roenicke said. “Give him an opportunity to see the good tools that everybody saw (given) where he was drafted and how they felt about him as he was coming up through the minor leagues. I…
