<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/lucas-giolito-makes-obvious-2025-red-sox-contract-decision');   ga('set', 'title', 'Lucas Giolito makes obvious 2025 Red Sox contract decision');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lucas-Giolito-makes-obvious-2025-contract-decision.jpg"><figcaption>10/31/24</figcaption></figure><h1>Lucas Giolito makes obvious 2025 Red Sox contract decision</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-10-31T16:19:58-07:00">October 31st, 4:19pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-10-31T16:19:58-07:00">October 31st, 4:19pm</time><address><a>Steve Silverman</a>Steve Silverman has been covering the NFL for more than 35 years, and his writing has appeared in ESPN Magazine, Bleacher Report, CBS Sports, Pro Football Weekly, and Forbes.com. He has written 10 books, including "Who's Better, Who's Best in the NFL." He has won multiple awards from the Pro Football Writers of America.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">Boston Red Sox</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Lucas Giolito will stay with the <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/3-red-sox-most-to-blame-for-missing-2024-postseason">Boston Red Sox organization</a> during the 2025 season, as he exercised his $19 million option, according to an announcement from the team.</p><p>This development was expected, as it would have made no sense for Giolito to opt for free agency after missing the 2024 season after undergoing elbow surgery.</p><p>Giolito is expected to be ready to participate in spring training for the Red Sox, but that does not mean he will be ready to pitch at full strength by the start of the season. Giolito will have to pass several tests in order to hold down a spot in the Red Sox rotation. Once that happens, Giolito will have to show he can handle the stress of taking a regular turn as one of the team’s starting pitchers.</p><p>The 30-year-old Giolito has spent the majority of his 8-year career with the Chicago White Sox. He was known for his ability to take his regular turn in the rotation throughout the majority of his career.<br>Giolito had 30 or more starts in three consecutive seasons from 2021 through 2023.</p><p>He had his best season in 2019 when he had a 14-9 record with a 3.41 earned run average along with 228 strikeouts in 176.1 innings. Giolito made the American League All-Star team that season.</p><h2><b>The 2023 season was difficult for Giolito</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Lucas-Giolito-has-opted-to-stay-with-the-Boston-Red-Sox.jpg"><figcaption>Mandatory Credit: Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images</figcaption></figure><p><a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-lucas-giolito-breaks-silence-injury">The Red Sox hurler</a> has been known as a something of a workhorse prior to his elbow surgery. In addition to his consistency from 2021 through 2023, he also had one other season with 30 or more starts and another year that included 29 starts.</p><p>It was difficult for Giolito to watch his new teammates with the Red Sox without being able to help them in the American League East.</p><p>“It’s hard,” he said,<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/31/sports/red-sox-lucas-giolito-option/"> per Julian McWilliams</a> of the <i>Boston Globe</i>. “It can be difficult sometimes to juggle the feeling of, like, I obviously signed here, it’s a lot of money, I’m letting people down, vs. this kind of [expletive] that happens in baseball. We blow our elbows out. I didn’t want it to happen now. But it’s kind of the hand you’re dealt.”</p><p>The Red Sox had an up and down 2024 regular season, playing well in the first half and looking like a potential playoff team under manager Alex Cora before struggling in the second half. They finished with an 81-81 record that left them in third place in the American League East.</p><p>The pitching staff was led by Brayan Bellow, Tanner Houck and Kutter Crawford. Bellow had a 14-8 record with a 4.49 ERA, while Houck made the American League All-Star team with a 9-10 record and a 3.12 ERA. Crawford struggled to a 9-16 mark with a 4.36 ERA in 183.2 innings.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Lucas Giolito makes obvious 2025 Red Sox contract decision

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/red-sox-news-lucas-giolito-breaks-silence-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'Red Sox’s Lucas Giolito breaks silence on devastating injury');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Lucas-Giolito-breaks-silence-on-devastating-injury.jpg"></figure><h1>Red Sox’s Lucas Giolito breaks silence on devastating injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-04-22T09:31:46-07:00">April 22nd, 9:31am</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-04-22T10:55:21-07:00">April 22nd, 10:55am</time><address><a>Gerard Angelo Samillano</a>Gerard Angelo Samillano is an Associate Editor for ClutchPoints, with his focus primarily on the NBA, NFL, MLB and Gaming. When he's not writing for CP, Gerard can often be seen playing VALORANT or playing pick-up basketball. He's also working on his BS Mathematics degree.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Boston Red Sox are having a crisis with their pitching staff. Before the season even started, the team lost a key signing in the offseason. During spring training, star pitcher Lucas Giolito abruptly exited the game due to an injury. After a few days, the fans’ worst fears were confirmed: Giolito would be<a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-boston-lucas-giolito-injury"> out for the entire season</a> after undergoing elbow surgery. It’s a brutal blow for a team that has lost many of their stars in the rotation.</p><p>A month after the injury, Lucas Giolito finally <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisRoseSports/status/1782419762389164473">spoke about the injury</a> that took him out for the season, per Chris Rose. The Red Sox pitcher said that he really didn’t feel anything prior to the injury, but during the game itself, he started feeling a bit sore.</p><p>“No, I didn’t have anything going on. I felt very good, my velocity was up. And yeah, I went out for that second outing… it was kind of throughout that outing, I was like, ‘Oh, I kinda do feel a little bit sore today.’ But, you work through that. And then I threw one pitch where it was like, ‘That wasn’t very good.'”</p><figure class="op-interactive"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">Lucas Giolito wasn’t sure how bad his elbow injury was in the moment <a href="https://t.co/v9SRau3x5U">pic.twitter.com/v9SRau3x5U</a></p><p>— Chris Rose Sports (@ChrisRoseSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisRoseSports/status/1782419762389164473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 22, 2024</a></p></blockquote><p><script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></p></figure><p>Despite the severity of the injury, Giolito didn’t think his season was over immediately after the injury. The Red Sox pitcher recalled feeling a similar sensation last season that ultimately resulted in nothing, so he had no reason to believe that it was a serious injury.</p><p>“No, I didn’t know it was over. ‘Cause I had something, I had a similar sensation last year that ended up being nothing. I remember I was on the mound and I was like, ‘Is it like something last year or was it something else?’ It was pretty interesting, all the initial tests were pointing to one thing… it didn’t seem significant. And then I got an MRI, and the MRI showed that, ‘Oh, your UCL is damaged.'”</p><h2><b>Red Sox’ pitching staff after Giolito injury</b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Red-Sox-Lucas-Giolito-pitching-last-year.jpg"><figcaption>Jay Biggerstaff-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p>Giolito was supposed to be <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-boston-lucas-giolito-agree-on-two-year-38-5-million-deal">one of the solutions</a> to a Red Sox rotation that struggled last season. They were one of the worst units last season, and with Chris Sale signing with the Atlanta Braves… they needed a new ace. Giolito struggled to end the year, but he still performed pretty solidly. Banking on a bounce-back season was not a bad idea at all.</p><p>With Giolito out for the year, though, the Red Sox have had to rely on a few other pitchers to get them through the season. Tanner Houck is playing some pretty great ball as of late, going 3-1 with a 1.35 ERA and 28 strikeouts. Brayan Brello and Nick Pivetta are also playing great, although Pivetta is currently on the injured list.</p><p>Even with all of the injuries, the Red Sox are still in good position this season. They are 13-10 right now, good for third in the AL East. A playoff berth will be pretty tough: the Yankees and the Orioles are playing out of their minds, and the Blue Jays are creeping up right behind them after a slow start. How far can they go with a battered and bruised team?</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Red Sox’s Lucas Giolito breaks silence on devastating injury

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He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>Lucas Giolito was recently <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-lucas-giolito-devastating-elbow-injury-update-spring-training" rel="noopener">dealt a brutal elbow injury update</a>, but there was a glimmer of hope that the Boston Red Sox starting pitcher could return at some point in 2024. Unfortunately, Giolito is not expected to pitch at all this season after it was <a href="https://twitter.com/BNightengale/status/1767273549889409492" rel="noopener">revealed that he will undergo</a> elbow surgery on Tuesday, per Bob Nightengale of USA Today.</p><p>Giolito is dealing with a partially torn UCL. The type of surgery required has not yet been made available, but it will indeed keep Giolito out until at least 2025.</p><p>Giolito <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-boston-lucas-giolito-agree-on-two-year-38-5-million-deal" rel="noopener">signed a two-year, $38.5 million contract</a> with Boston this past offseason. The fit made sense, as Giolito and the Red Sox were both in similar positions.</p><p>Boston missed the playoffs in 2023. Their roster featured question marks, especially within the starting rotation. They needed pitching help and Giolito was set to benefit the ball club.</p><p>Giolito, meanwhile, struggled during the second-half of 2023 after getting traded to the Los Angeles Angels. He was placed on waivers by the Halos after just one month with the team, and the Cleveland Guardians claimed him. Giolito continued to struggle with Cleveland, however.</p><p>Still, he had pitched to a respectable 3.79 ERA with the Chicago White Sox to open the season before the trade, so the Red Sox were hopeful that he could find his rhythm once again.</p><p>The injury is just a devastating blow for both Lucas Giolito and the Sox. Giolito will try to return as soon as possible following the 2024 campaign, but there is no official injury timeline yet. The Red Sox will attempt to get enough production from their rotation to make noise in the talented American League East.</p><p>Boston will probably have a difficult time competing in such a deep division, though.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

Red Sox’s worst Lucas Giolito injury fears confirmed

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">    <head>        <script>   (function(i, s, o, g, r, a, m) {     i["GoogleAnalyticsObject"] = r;     i[r] = i[r] || function() {       (i[r].q = i[r].q || []).push(arguments)     }, i[r].l = 1 * new Date();     a = s.createElement(o),       m = s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];     a.async = 1;     a.src = g;     m.parentNode.insertBefore(a, m)   })(window, document, "script", "https://www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js", "ga");   ga('create', 'UA-66147751-16', {     'storage': 'none',     'clientId': localStorage.getItem('ga:clientId')   });   ga(function(tracker) {     localStorage.setItem('ga:clientId', tracker.get('clientId'));   });   ga('set', 'checkProtocolTask', null);      ga('set', 'page', '/mlb-rumors-red-sox-linked-to-blake-snell-jordan-montgomery-brutal-lucas-giolito-injury');   ga('set', 'title', 'MLB rumors: Red Sox linked to Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery amid brutal Lucas Giolito injury');   ga('send', 'pageview');</script>        <style type="text/css" media="all">            body {    background: transparent;    margin: 0px;}h1, h2, h3 {    color: #DDDDDD;    font-family: "SFUIText-Semibold";    margin: 30px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 21px;    line-height: 125%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}header {    margin: 0px;    height: 0px;    display: none;}p {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 15px 15px 15px 15px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}p > img {    margin-left: -15px;    width: calc(100% + 30px);}a {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;    text-decoration: underline;}ul {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 3px 10px 3px 10px;    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}ol {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    font-size: 17px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.23px;}img {    margin: 0px;    width: 100%;    height: auto;}blockquote {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);    font-family: "SFUIText-Medium";    margin: 30px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 19px;    line-height: 135%;    letter-spacing: -0.41px;}blockquote p {    margin: 0px;}.op-tracker, .op-ad {    display: none;    height: 0px;}article > figure {    margin: 0px;}figcaption {    color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.7);    font-family: "SFUIText-Regular";    margin: 10px 15px 30px 15px;    font-size: 13px;}iframe {    width: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;    margin: 0px;    border: 0;}.vine-embed {    height: __SCREEN_SIZE_WIDTH__;}.twitter-tweet, .instagram-media {    margin-left: 15px !important;    margin-right: 15px !important;    width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;}.clutchpoints-widget {    /*margin: 10px 15px 10px 15px !important;*/    /*margin-top: 1px !important;*/    padding-top: 10px;    /*margin-left: 15px !important;*/    /*margin-right: 15px !important;*/    /*width: __SCREEN_CONTENT_SIZE_WIDTH__ !important;*/}        </style>        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />    </head>    <body>        <article id="mvp-content-main"><header><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/MLB-rumors-Red-Sox-linked-to-Blake-Snell-Jordan-Montgomery-amid-brutal-Lucas-Giolito-injury.jpg"></figure><h1>MLB rumors: Red Sox linked to Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery amid brutal Lucas Giolito injury</h1><time class="op-published" datetime="2024-03-07T19:56:28-08:00">March 7th, 7:56pm</time><time class="op-modified" datetime="2024-03-07T20:04:24-08:00">March 7th, 8:04pm</time><address><a>Nick Meyer</a>Nick Meyer is a sports writer for ClutchPoints based in the Metro Detroit area. He has covered everything from Major League Baseball to the NFL, UFC, and College Football.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Boston Red Sox are struggling to deal with the aftermath of Lucas Giolito’s potential season ending ulterior cruciate ligament (UCL) tear and flexor strain, which could mean Tommy John surgery for the talented right-handed pitcher.</p><p>Giolito <a href="https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/32697/lucas-giolito" rel="noopener">fanned over 200 hitters</a> last season and appeared in line for an exciting 2024 season as a starter. The challenging injury news brought out the tiger in Manager Alex Cora, who <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-alex-cora-message-boston-critics-lucas-giolito-injury" rel="noopener">lashed out at critics</a> of his AL East team.</p><p>With Giolito’s injury still a major focus, the Red Sox’s future is also being discussed as the rumor mill begins to heat up.</p><h2><b>Red Sox Linked to Pitchers Snell, Montgomery </b></h2><figure><img src="https://wp.clutchpoints.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Blake-Snell-Sox.jpg"><figcaption>© Sergio Estrada-USA TODAY Sports</figcaption></figure><p>Boston was linked to pitchers Blake Snell and Jordan Montgomery recently as they begin to prepare for life without Giolito.</p><p>Montgomery, a lefty free agent who pitched for the Rangers last season, has been linked <a href="https://www.mlb.com/news/jordan-montgomery-rumors" rel="noopener">to the Red Sox for months</a>. The info came via MLB.com. Whether or not the Red Sox choose to add the free agent may depend on whether they believe it makes sense financially for a team that isn’t seen as a World Series contender at this time, or one that is likely to become a contender any time soon.</p><p>Meanwhile Snell, a two-time Cy Young winner who recently pitched for the Padres, is a free agent rumored to be willing to take a short-term deal. The Yankees’ recent $150 million offer is said to be off the table as Snell remains in limbo. If the Red Sox are willing to pay up, they could find a way to bring him aboard.</p><h2>Boston Falls in Spring Training</h2><p>The Red Sox lost 3-2 in spring training action to the Atlanta Braves on Thursday as pitchers Nick Pivetta and Tanner Houck gave up three runs combined in six innings while striking out eight. The Red Sox are <a href="https://www.mlb.com/standings/">now 8-6 in spring training</a> action with their sights set on improving day-by-day in hopes of a better future in the AL East this season.</p><p> </p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

MLB rumors: Red Sox linked to Blake Snell, Jordan Montgomery amid brutal Lucas Giolito injury

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He is originally from a small town in Southern California. Mistretta graduated college with a degree in broadcast journalism from Biola University.</address><h3 class="op-kicker">MLB</h3><figure class="op-ad"></figure></header><p>The Boston Red Sox’s chances of competing in 2024 were already questioned by some people around the MLB world. Now with <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-lucas-giolito-devastating-elbow-injury-update-spring-training" rel="noopener">Lucas Giolito expected to miss</a> most, and possibly all of 2024 due to an injury, Boston’s odds of making a playoff run are uncertain at best. Manager Alex Cora is <a href="https://theathletic.com/5319774/2024/03/06/alex-cora-boston-red-sox-free-agent/" rel="noopener">still confident in his team</a>, though.</p><p>“I do feel we’re better than what people think,” Cora said, via Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic.</p><p>Alex Cora also discussed entering the final year of his Red Sox contract, via Rosenthal as well.</p><p>“Over the years — I hate to say it this way, because it feels like I’m bragging — but I have controlled the narrative since 2017,” Cora said. “Twice a day on that bench (in spring training), twice a day in Fenway, no one can say he hasn’t been able to deal with Boston.”</p><h2><b>Red Sox’s 2024 outlook</b></h2><p>The Red Sox usually expect to win. The team has not met their lofty expectations in recent seasons. Cora has established a reputation as a good manager, but the Red Sox will have to make a difficult decision if Boston fails to reach the postseason again in 2024.</p><p>Of course, Cora has not received much help from the front office heading into the new campaign. Giolito was one of the team’s primary additions this past offseason and now he might not even pitch in 2024. Tyler O’Neill and Vaughn Grissom were <a href="https://clutchpoints.com/red-sox-news-vaughn-grissom-leaving-braves" rel="noopener">among Boston’s other additions</a>, but it was still a relatively quiet offseason for the big market ball club.</p><p>Expectations are not especially high for the team. Playing in a talented American League East division does not help in that regard. Boston will endure trouble trying to finish ahead of any other AL East team in the 2024 standings.</p><p>Nevertheless, Alex Cora will do everything he can to lead the Red Sox to a resilient campaign.</p><figure class="op-tracker"></figure></article>    </body></html>

2024 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
13	8.31	2	1.38	0

2024 SEASON STATS
IP	ERA	K	WHIP	WINS
13	8.31	2	1.38	0

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