The Boston Red Sox should be absolutely thrilled in the starts they\u2019ve gotten from Hunter Dobbins in 2025. <\/p>\n
He entered spring training with the likes of Quinn Priester and Richard Fitts to add supportive depth to the rotation in Garrett Crochet, Brayan Bello, Tanner Houck and Lucas Giolito. Well, Priester struggled and got traded to the Milwaukee Brewers. Fitts looked solid before hitting the injured list with a pectoral injury.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s put more on Dobbins\u2019 plate to come up from Triple-A Worcester and he pitched his way onto more radars. His stock remained little known before 2025 but he\u2019s more than proved his worth. <\/p>\n
Dobbins pitched six shutout innings against the Kansas City Royals with just five hits allowed and six strikeouts. He ran his fastball up to 98 MPH on the night and spotted his arsenal well. He dropped his ERA to 2.78 in four MLB starts and showed just why the Red Sox originally trusted him as depth in 2025. Boston still dropped the game 2-1 in 12 innings<\/a>, but the Red Sox starter came to play Friday night. <\/p>\n \u201cGood fastball, off-speed early to get ahead,\u201d Cora told reporters, as seen on NESN\u2019s postgame coverage. \u201cHe was able to use his fastball late in counts. He was really good.\u201d <\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \u201cWe stuck to it,\u201d Dobbins told reporters, as seen on NESN\u2019s postgame coverage. \u201cSome absolutely great defensive plays behind me. Just let me pitch to contact and go after guys.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n Arms like Fitts, Walker Buehler and Kutter Crawford are still set to return from injury. When they do, it\u2019ll be hard to deny Dobbins\u2019 production. He deserves continued outings for the Red Sox, whether he\u2019s locked into a rotation spot or in more spot starts as depth. <\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s been really good,\u201d Cora added. \u201cHe has a good mix. He has a good fastball. Today, he was under control. He gave us more than enough.\u201d <\/p>\n Here are more notes from Friday\u2019s Red Sox-Royals game: <\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \u2014 Boston fell to 3-3 in extra innings this season and 6-15 when the lineup strikes out 10 or more times. <\/p>\n \u2014 The Royals remain scorching hot to start the season. Kansas City moved to 16-2 in the last 18 games with Friday\u2019s walk-off win.<\/p>\n \u2014 Red Sox ownership traveled to meet with Rafael Devers<\/a> in Kansas City following Thursday\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n \u2014 Cora and Craig Breslow labeled first base talks<\/a> with Devers as \u201congoing\u201d for the Red Sox. <\/p>\n Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n \u2014 The Red Sox and Royals continue their three-game series Saturday night at Kauffman Stadium. Garrett Crochet takes the ball for Boston while Cole Ragans counters for Kansas City. First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m. ET. You can catch the game, plus an hour of pregame coverage, on NESN<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox should be absolutely thrilled in the starts they\u2019ve gotten from Hunter Dobbins in 2025.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,4,89,696,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-15092","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-red-sox","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-red-sox","11":"tag-bostonredsox","12":"tag-mlb","13":"tag-red-sox","14":"tag-red-sox-notes","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114481692966707412","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}