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The Red Sox are on a roll again, this time on an eight-game win streak. Their last outing saw them perform a miraculous comeback, beating the White Sox in 13 innings. Everyone on the roster is excited about the potential playoff run this team can go on.
One of those players is Garrett Crochet, out since April due to left shoulder inflammation. It’s also hard for the 2025 AL Cy Young runner-up not to feel a little low after feeling left out on all the fun.
Crochet has a 3-3 record with a 6.30 ERA, striking out 37 in 30 innings. He finally got a chance to throw again after months on the shelf, not long after stating he’s in a race against time . The reigning MLB strikeout leader believes he could be on track to return sometime soon.
“I do feel good about it,” Crochet said via MLB.com . “I don’t have one specific day in mind, but I generally feel good about it.”
Picked 11th by the White Sox in the 2020 MLB Draft, Crochet was traded to the Red Sox in 2024. He went 18-5 in his first season in Boston, posting a 2.59 ERA and striking out 255 batters.
Signing a six-year, $170 million extension, Crochet wants to prove the contract was worth it. Interim manager Chad Tracy believes it’s “not feasible” for him to go more than six innings when he returns. There is a way for Crochet to contribute: a potential bullpen run.
“If he’s healthy and right, and he looks like Garrett Crochet, I think we’d be foolish not to consider that,” Tracy said.
Crochet proved he can produce in the bullpen in Chicago. After eight strikeouts in five games in 2020, Crochet had a 2.82 ERA in 54.1 innings in 2021, striking out 65. After Tommy John surgery, he had a 3.55 ERA in 13 games in 2023, striking out 12.
A move to the bullpen has done wonders for Brayan Bello , who got recalled in July after being optioned to Triple-A Worcester in June. In five games, he has a 0.48 ERA with 16 strikeouts. The transition has helped rest some reliable relievers.
That transition may be a decision Craig Breslow makes. Regardless, Crochet, itching to pitch, wouldn’t say no to contributing in any way possible.
“There’s no ego about it. It’s something I’ve done before,” Crochet said. “If there’s any way possible I can help this team achieve the goal we set out in Spring Training, the goal that every team sets out to achieve, if I could help us achieve it, I don’t really care what the role is.
“I’ve been on the sidelines for three months, and they’ve been killing it, and it just makes me hungrier and hungrier to want to join and just contribute, because these guys have stepped up and posted all year. It’d be nice to help.”
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Category Stat Games Started 6 Record 3-3 ERA 6.30 Innings Pitched 30.0 Strikeouts 37 Walks 11 WHIP 1.47 More Red Sox
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