{"id":486687,"date":"2026-02-24T01:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486687\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T01:26:07","slug":"caleb-durbin-has-underrated-superpower-that-will-greatly-benefit-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/486687\/","title":{"rendered":"Caleb Durbin Has Underrated Superpower That Will Greatly Benefit Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Red Sox<\/a> newcomer Caleb Durbin finished No. 3 in National League MVP voting last season, so there&#8217;s no need to explain that he&#8217;s a multi-talented baseball player with a handful of characteristics that add to winning, both offensively and defensively.<\/p>\n<p>But of all of Durbin&#8217;s attributes, one stands out: Durbin barely ever strikes out.<\/p>\n<p>As <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7064258\/2026\/02\/23\/boston-red-sox-offense-projections\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic&#8217;s Ken Rosenthal<\/a> pointed out on Monday, Durbin&#8217;s 9.9 percent strikeout rate was the fifth-lowest in Major League Baseball last season.<\/p>\n<p>This quality of Durbin&#8217;s added immense value to a gritty Milwaukee Brewers lineup that made up for a perceived lack of talent by outworking opposing pitching staffs and playing hard-nosed baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the Red Sox are hoping that Durbin will inject some of that energy into Boston&#8217;s lineup in 2026, and there&#8217;s no reason to believe that he won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, there&#8217;s every reason to believe that the 26-year-old Durbin hasn&#8217;t approached his ceiling as a player, and will only improve at the plate in a Red Sox uniform.<\/p>\n<p>More MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/boston-red-sox\/news\/new-red-sox-whats-changed-why-it-matters-2026\/30cb92148557e370aee1d9e7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Meet the New Red Sox: What&#8217;s Changed \u2014 and Why It Matters in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boston Red Sox newcomer Caleb Durbin finished No. 3 in National League MVP voting last season, so there&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-486687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}