{"id":734438,"date":"2026-06-13T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734438\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T17:32:09","slug":"garrett-crochet-unlikely-to-return-before-all-star-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/734438\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Crochet Unlikely To Return Before All-Star Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

Garrett Crochet<\/a> spoke to MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo<\/a> and other reporters Friday about his health status, though the left-hander still didn\u2019t have any clear timeline about when he might return to the Red Sox rotation.\u00a0 \u201cI think it would take a huge leap to say I\u2019d be back before\u201d the All-Star break, Crochet said, as \u201cI think that would be really rushing it\u201d given that his rehab process will now have to be essentially restarted in the aftermath of a lat strain.<\/p>\n

Crochet tossed six shutout innings on April 25 and was then (retroactively) placed on the 15-day injured list the next day due to left shoulder inflammation.\u00a0 After about a month on the sidelines, Crochet had progressed to facing live batters before the lat strain resulted in a throwing shutdown that has now lasted over two weeks.<\/p>\n

The lat strain is now no longer a real issue, and Crochet said he is \u201cgetting close to throwing.\u201d\u00a0 Understandably, the southpaw is frustrated \u201cthat I\u2019ve been out this long\u201d due to a confluence of two relatively minor injuries that overlapped at just about the most inconvenient time.<\/p>\n

The best-case scenario would have Crochet ready to go when the second half begins on July 17, as the Red Sox face the Rays in a doubleheader.\u00a0 It remains to be seen if that twin bill may have much impact on the AL East race, as 12.5 games currently separate the division-leading Rays from the Sox at the bottom of the division standings.\u00a0 Boston is looking like a trade deadline seller as things stand now, and not having Crochet for several more weeks will make it even harder for the Red Sox to climb back into contention.<\/p>\n

Between Crochet\u2019s injury absence and Brayan Bello<\/a> pitching so poorly that was optioned to Triple-A last week, the emergency of Connelly Early<\/a> and Payton Tolle<\/a> have been a godsend to the Sox rotation.\u00a0 With Ranger Suarez<\/a> and Sonny Gray<\/a> also pitching well, the rotation hasn\u2019t been much of an issue, at least not in comparison to the offensive woes that have been Boston\u2019s biggest Achilles heel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Garrett Crochet spoke to MassLive.com\u2019s Chris Cotillo and other reporters Friday about his health status, though the left-hander…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":734439,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,6104,591,85],"class_list":["post-734438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734438","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=734438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734438\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/734439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=734438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=734438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=734438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}