Triston Casas Admits To ‘Living Worst Nightmare’ After Injury

Boston Red Sox first baseman Triston Casas wanted to put together a bounce-back season in 2025. He had set lofty expectations that would have made him a household name.

Casas came up incredibly short of it all coming to fruition, though.

A slow start for Casas was followed by a devastating injury, which ended his season just a couple of days into the month of May. The 25-year-old slugger ruptured his patellar tendon by hustling out a grounder and he landed in a heap just beyond the first base bag before being stretchered off the field at Fenway Park.

It’s the second straight season Casas missed significant time due to injury — he was sidelined for 98 games in 2023 due to torn rib cartilage. It’s another lost season for Casas and not at all what he had envisioned.

“I’m living my worst nightmare,” Casas told reporters Tuesday when speaking to the media for the first time since the injury, per The Athletic’s Jen McCaffrey. “This is the worst-case scenario for any type of player to go through a recovery that’s double digits in months. But going through it now, I feel like I’m going to get better as a consequence of it.”

Casas, who batted .182 with three home runs and 11 RBIs in 29 games in 2025, targeted Opening Day next season for when he wants to return. But he will have to get through several months of a grueling rehab to make that a possibility.

Casas said the injury felt as though his knee was “hit by a sledgehammer” and he knew immediately that something serious had occurred.

“A lot of anger, a lot of frustration,” Casas said. “I had a lot of goals for myself this year that I’m not going to be able to accomplish. So back to the drawing board. I’ll have a full offseason to recover, get back to the caliber of player I hope on being and let’s try to attack it next year.”

Casas is expected to make a full recovery from the injury. He knows what awaits him over the summer and fall months after gaining an understanding of the rehabilitation process last season.

But Casas admitted this time it will be different and more difficult.

“I have a timeline. We have checkpoints that we want to get to and stuff,” Casas said. “So I think this process is going to be a little more mentally easing than last year. Still physically, though, it’s gonna be the toughest thing that I’ve gone through so far in my career.”