{"id":799494,"date":"2026-09-08T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/799494\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:27:15","slug":"red-sox-are-considering-a-risky-move-with-1-injured-all-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/799494\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox are considering a risky move with 1 injured All-Star"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Boston Red Sox<\/a> may be feeling like gambling men.<\/p>\n

Boston could potentially trot out injured star pitcher Garrett Crochet<\/a> in the first round of the playoffs, Tim Healey of The Boston Globe reported on Monday<\/a>. Healey notes that Crochet is progressing towards a postseason return \u2026 despite likely not appearing in a single game (majors or minors) before then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve done crazy things before,\u201d Crochet was quoted as saying of the possibility. \u201cI\u2019m not Joe Schmoe. I\u2019ve done impressive things. I think that that would be a big ask for some people, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a crazy ask for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crochet, 27, has not pitched at all since late April due to shoulder inflammation. He then suffered multiple setbacks in his recovery, including being diagnosed with a separate lat strain in June.<\/p>\n

The lefty Crochet does have an impressive resume as a two-time All-Star as well as Major League Baseball\u2019s strikeouts leaders in 2025 (with a whopping 255 of them). He also signed a six-year, $170 million extension with the Red Sox in 2025, meaning that the team has a whole lot of money invested in him.<\/p>\n

But there would obviously be immense risk with turning to a rusty Crochet (who has not pitched in a real game for more than four months and couting) in an extremely high-leverage playoff situation. The 80-65 Red Sox will almost certainly be facing the rival New York Yankees<\/a> in a three-game AL Wild Card series, and it looks like they could be rolling the dice there with Crochet, who has a reputation as a real gamer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Red Sox may be feeling like gambling men. Boston could potentially trot out injured star pitcher…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2375],"tags":[5,141,48,2542,922,4,89,2543],"class_list":["post-799494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-red-sox","tag-baseball","tag-boston","tag-boston-red-sox","tag-bostonredsox","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-mlb","tag-red-sox","tag-redsox"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117233768434137008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799494","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=799494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}