If you want to go back even further, this garbage started in his outing in the postseason last October against the Yankees<\/a> when he was bounced after just 2.1 innings in a sneaky bleak and borderline abysmal performance. As I wrote in January about that game when I wanted to trade him<\/a>:<\/p>\n Bello faced just 11 batters, failed to get five of them out, didn\u2019t strike out a soul, couldn\u2019t keep Ben Rice<\/a> in the ballpark, and was largely saved from complete disaster by an Anthony Volpe<\/a> double play in the second inning, and Alex Cora\u2019s quick hook in the third.<\/p>\n This is crazy to think about when you consider Bello had a 3.32 ERA last year and made it through at least five innings in 23 of his 28 starts. Now he\u2019s so terrible and unreliable, the Sox need to find a way to get him out of the rotation as soon as possible before he can do any more damage. He\u2019s not just losing games, he\u2019s making them completely unwinnable even if most of the rest of the roster would happen to do their job.<\/p>\n But of course, because this is Red Sox baseball and they\u2019re prone to disasters, they pretty much have to let Brayan Bello make his next start with Garrett Crochet going on IL<\/a>. Since the rotation is also without Johan Oviedo<\/a>, Patrick Sandoval<\/a>, Kutter Crawford<\/a>, Tanner Houck<\/a>, and Tyler Uberstine and has to wait until May 6th before Sonny Gray<\/a> is eligible to come off the IL, it creates this really annoying dynamic over the next five games if you want to get Brayan Bello out of the rotation.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n If you assume Jake Bennett makes his major league debut on Friday at Fenway and then the other three healthy starters just follow suit, it leaves you one game short of getting back to Gray\u2019s date. Here\u2019s how it breaks down with Bello having to fill that May 5th game in Detroit<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is really annoying because with the off day today, it feels like there should be some way to manipulate things and get Bello off the carousel, but short of a rainout, there\u2019s just one too many games to cover.<\/p>\n So it would seem the only other option here would be to go with a bullpen game since Bello pretty much makes every game he starts a mini bullpen game anyway, right?<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Well, not exactly. If you take a look at the how opposing starters are lining up for the next handful of games, the Red Sox are once again likely to catch reigning Cy Young Award winner Tarik Skubal<\/a> on the Monday, May 4th game. This presents Boston with a unique opportunity to pull off an Art of War trick by using today\u2019s off day to move up Brayan Bello\u2019s next start to Monday where he\u2019d still be on normal rest. (And really, rest should be no problem because he only lasted 63 pitches in Wednesday\u2019s atrocious outing anyway.)<\/p>\n I mean, if you likely to lose any game of that Detroit series where Skubal or Bello starts, why not put them on the same day? If your opponent has an Ace of Spades on the table, you might as well throw out your two of clubs if you have that option. Wouldn\u2019t you much rather lose that Monday game 13-1 and reset things for the rest of the series instead of losing 3-2 on Monday and then something like 12-5 on Tuesday?<\/p>\n Also, Brayan Bello kind of deserves to be fed to the lions \u2014 Or I guess Tigers in this case. You put your teammates in a horrible situation time and time again? How about we put you in a horrible situation and make you face Skubal?<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/dd72a618752b0c6ca700df327f22f7eb.jpeg\"\/)
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