{"id":161063,"date":"2025-09-22T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161063\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:55:07","slug":"red-sox-news-links-garrett-crochet-to-start-game-one-of-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/161063\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox News & Links: Garrett Crochet to start game one of playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Sox don\u2019t yet have a playoff spot clinched and things are murkier than ever in that regard as we head into the final week of the season. But they are planning for October nonetheless. Alex Cora is reshuffling the rotation for this week\u2019s series against the Blue Jays, swapping Brayan Bello\u2019s upcoming turn on Wednesday for Garrett Crochet. This move not only gives Bello an extra day of rest down the stretch, but lines up Crochet to start Game One of the Wild Card Series. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, the Red Sox need to make it October first. Last night they blew a chance to put some separation between them and the Guardians, who finally lost for the first time in 11 games. But Alexes Bregman and Cora are urging the team to stay calm and focus on winning the game in front of them. (Jen McCaffrey, The Athletic)<\/a><\/p>\n

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But this week brings the Sox a big chance to cement their status, with Guardians and Tigers meeting each other for a three-game set. (Rob Bradford, WEEI)<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the offense showed some signs of life down in Tampa. Ceddanne Rafaela went 6-12 in the series, Alex Bregman homered and collected five hits, and Jarren Duran put up some good at-bats back in the leadoff spot in the wake of Roman Anthony\u2019s injury. (Ian Browne, MLB.com)<\/a><\/p>\n

Back in May it seemed unfathomable that, if the Sox made the playoffs, Kristian Campbell wouldn\u2019t be a part of it. But Campbell\u2019s now been out of the big leagues for three months, and it doesn\u2019t appear that he\u2019ll make return appearance this week. Campbell is trying to look at this past year as a \u201credshirt\u201d season while the front office continues to push him to refine his approach at the plate. (Chris Cotillo, MassLive)<\/a><\/p>\n

So clearly Campbell\u2019s development didn\u2019t go according to plan. Was there a scouting failure somewhere? None of us has any idea what the answer is to that question, of course. But we do know that, last season, Craig Breslow made significant cuts to the scouting department. And, this season, the Sox are reportedly asking several scouts \u2014 including some with decades of experience \u2014 to take significant pay cuts and shift roles. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)<\/a><\/p>\n

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Regardless, there sure wasn\u2019t any kind of scouting failure when it comes to Payton Tolle, who was named the Red Sox Minor Leaguer of the Year after he rocketed through the system and all the way up to the bigs in less than a full season. (Alex Speier, Baseball America)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Sox don\u2019t yet have a playoff spot clinched and things are murkier than ever in that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[5154,42152,106774,64,63,30848,42156,15430,6104,16047,42155,591,76377,16088,31839,85,106775],"class_list":{"0":"post-161063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-alex-bregman","9":"tag-alex-cora","10":"tag-alex-speier","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-brayan-bello","14":"tag-ceddanne-rafaela","15":"tag-craig-breslow","16":"tag-garrett-crochet","17":"tag-jarren-duran","18":"tag-kristian-campbell","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-payton-tolle","21":"tag-red-sox","22":"tag-roman-anthony","23":"tag-sports","24":"tag-the-red-sox"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}