{"id":75037,"date":"2025-06-03T02:14:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/75037\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T02:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:14:11","slug":"alex-cora-gives-promising-update-on-forgotten-red-sox-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/75037\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Cora Gives Promising Update On Forgotten Red Sox Pitcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody on the Boston Red Sox pitching staff last season made as many starts as Kutter Crawford.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford has yet to make an appearance on the mound this season, but that could change in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>Red Sox manager Alex Cora <a href=\"https:\/\/www.masslive.com\/redsox\/2025\/06\/alex-cora-gives-boston-red-sox-injury-updates.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters prior to Monday\u2019s game<\/a> against the Los Angeles Angels that Crawford is expected to begin a rehab assignment later this week, per MassLive\u2019s Christopher Smith. Crawford has been on the injured list since the start of the season due to right patellar tendinopathy.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s actually an injury Crawford pushed through last season. He injured his knee in his third start covering first base. But the 29-year-old righthander still made 33 starts to be a solid contributor in the back end of the starting rotation. Crawford led the Red Sox with 183 2\/3 innings pitched while posting a 4.36 ERA and 1.12 WHIP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think if you look at his season overall, it was a solid one,\u201d Cora <a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2024\/09\/red-sox-notes-kutter-crawford-reflects-on-stepping-stone-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told reporters at the end of last season.<\/a> \u201cJust a kid that he understands how to pitch, uses both sides of the plate, he goes up, he can go down and he\u2019s a guy that we expect him to keep getting better. He\u2019s been good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Smith, Crawford worked his way up to tossing four innings of live batting practice in Fort Myers. That will give him a good foundation to build off of as he begins the next phase of his recovery with the big leagues seemingly not too far away.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox could make room for Crawford in a crowded rotation by giving him the spot currently occupied by Richard Fitts, who got shelled by the Angels on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nobody on the Boston Red Sox pitching staff last season made as many starts as Kutter Crawford. Crawford&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,791,4,89,2543],"class_list":{"0":"post-75037","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-kutter-crawford","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-red-sox","15":"tag-redsox"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114617022388373428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75037","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=75037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}