Ceddanne Rafaela Compares This Red Sox Pitcher To Garrett Crochet In This Way originally appeared on NESN.
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The Boston Red Sox have won three straight games against the New York Yankees, and things are starting to look up for them.
The season has not gone as anyone had expected for the Red Sox, but they still have time to go on a miraculous run. They have talented players, but everything has not clicked at once. Injuries have played a role, as the Red Sox have been without Garrett Crochet and Roman Anthony all season.
Crochet was one of the best pitchers in the league last season, and even though he has been out for a while, Ceddanne Rafaela thinks one of the Red Sox’s offseason additions has filled his role nicely. Rafaela noted that Sonny Gray’s start days are like Crochet’s in the sense that the team is confident they will win.
“He’s been really, really good and I think he’s like when (Garrett) Crochet was last year out there — we feel we’re going to win that game,” Rafaela said to MassLive’s Christopher Smith. “It feels like that.”
Gray has a 2.95 ERA in 14 starts this year. He has certainly pitched like an All-Star, and being compared to Crochet is no small feat. The Red Sox are 10-4 in his starts. Through 14 starts last year, Crochet had a 2.35 ERA and the team was 8-6 in his starts.
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