The Jays get a weak Red Sox starter to open a series in which it’s vital that they get a couple of damned wins, they’ve received some relatively good news on the injury front, and Marcus Stroman gets the call tonight. But none of that good news means the team is back to full health yet, none of it means they can’t let this damn hole get any bigger, and Chris Sale looms on Thursday. What a time to be alive.

Cam covered a bunch of this stuff earlier in the day, but here are some updates and all the rest of what’s going on:

Not sure why the Jays needed to add another infielder, but the guy they called up to take J.A. Happ’s place on the roster at least seems confident [tugs collar]:

Go get him, Marcus:

And now, the lineups…

Marcus Stroman: 1-1, 15.1 IP, 1.76 ERA, 9K, 3BB, 13H, 1HR

Brian Johnson: –, –, –, –, –, –, —

Johnson makes his 2017 big league debut tonight, after a pair of outstanding starts for Pawtucket. But don’t let his 15 strikeouts in 10.2 Triple-A innings fool you, there’s a chance he’s good for what’s been ailing the Jays. He’s also a fascinating story — still a prospect at age 26, having come back from a line drive to the face, a carjacking, shoulder tendinitis, an ulnar nerve issue, and being shut down for six weeks last season because of anxiety. Eric Longenhagen of FanGraphs writes, “And while Johnson has dealt with all of those things with grace and maturity, his stuff has backed up a bit. He’s been 87-90 this spring with more or less the same secondaries he’s always had (a short but tight low-80s cutter, a solid-average curveball in the mid-70s, and a fringe changeup) but less command. He’s still likely to have a big-league future of some kind, but it’s probably as a fifth starter or bullpen lefty rather than the mid-rotation starter many thought he’d be when drafted.”