The Red Sox enter the final month of the 2025 regular season occupying a playoff spot with outcomes still undecided. Starting pitching carried uncertainty in late July but can tilt the race in opposite directions. In a positive scenario, Brayan Bello and Lucas Giolito limit hard contact and eat innings, Garrett Crochet emerges as an ace, Payton Tolle and Dustin May provide rotation depth, and role players like Ceddys, Romys, and Refsnyders supply timely offense. In a negative scenario, starters cool off, allow hard contact, exit early, and the offense fails to compensate, imperiling Wild Card chances and divisional fights.
Brayan Bello and Lucas Giolito continue to initiate crappy contact and provide legitimate volume--six innings here, a start into the seventh there-to offer this pitching staff some much needed stretch. Garrett Crochet makes the Cy Young conversation a legitimate talking point instead of the foregone conclusion that is typically is. Payton Tolle doesn't crash-and-burn, while Dustin May provides some exciting upside and juice in the latter half of the rotation.
Brayan Bello and Lucas Giolito cool off during a pivotal stretch that features team directly in competition with us for one of three Wild Card slots. They can't reel in the hard contact, they make some early exits, and the offense can't quite pick them up. Garrett Crochet still isn't capable of pitching every single game (complete dud of a contract, thanks Breslow!!!!)
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