Red Sox (Crochet) vs Rangers (Eovaldi): 3/27/25, 4:05pm

[Brandon Glick]

Garrett Crochet finally takes the bump for the Red Sox against the 2023 champs in this Opening Day matchup!

[moonslav59]

I'm pumped up for this game and season.

Go!

SOX!!!!

[mvp 78]

Pumped and jacked! 

[d-money]

Hey fellas brand new season hoping for the best. I feel this team should have expectations. Hopefully they don’t disappoint. It’s always good to get off to a good start that’s for sure. 

[Old Red]

Good to see opening day here, and hopefully a good start to a promising season that looks that way on paper anyway, but the Red Sox are just a warmup for me to the COOPER FLAGG  show tonight.

[Bellhorn04]

My hunch is that this game will be decided by a bullpen battle.  But hunches can be made to look very silly by baseball.     

[Brandon Glick]

9 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Good to see opening day here, and hopefully a good start to a promising season that looks that way on paper anyway, but the Red Sox are just a warmup for me to the COOPER FLAGG  show tonight.

Duke looks like UConn from the last two seasons. Flagg/Proctor/Maluach is a ridiculous threesome.
Let's hope for a Red Sox win beforehand. Duke demolition of Arizona incoming.

[mvp 78]

14 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Good to see opening day here, and hopefully a good start to a promising season that looks that way on paper anyway, but the Red Sox are just a warmup for me to the COOPER FLAGG  show tonight.

You root for Notre Dame AND Duke? 

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

Since Hendriks was placed on the 15 day IL, Criswell is now in the pen which gives the Sox a bulk innings guy. 

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

13 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

 

Pete must think Crochet is a Really Hard-throwing Pitcher.

[mvp 78]

The 2025 Red Sox hype video to get y'all warmed up. 

[mvp 78]

https://www.mlb.com/redsox/team/pronunciation-guide

"WHEEL-yurr"

"KOSS-iss"

"JOES-tin-son"

"WICE-ert"

[Old Red]

47 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

You root for Notre Dame AND Duke? 

Notre Dame football Yes! Duke NO! Cooper Flagg Yes!

[moonslav59]

Interesting to see 5 RHBs vs the righty Nate.

We had such a lefty batting team, last year.

[mvp 78]

2 minutes ago, moonslav59 said:

Interesting to see 5 RHBs vs the righty Nate.

We had such a lefty batting team, last year.

Eovaldi's OPS vs LHB was 100 points worse last season. Not egregious. My guess is they really want to get Campbell in there and may only sit him against a really filthy guy like deGrom. 

They swapped 3B and 2B for RHB. Story was out for most of the year and was replaced mainly by LHB. 

[mvp 78]

 

[moonslav59]

19 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

Eovaldi's OPS vs LHB was 100 points worse last season. Not egregious. My guess is they really want to get Campbell in there and may only sit him against a really filthy guy like deGrom. 

They swapped 3B and 2B for RHB. Story was out for most of the year and was replaced mainly by LHB. 

Yup, and moving Rafaela to SS just moved a RHB from CF to SS, but the OF'ers were mostly lefties (Duran, O'Neill & Abreu)

We replaced a LHB DH with a LHB Devers, but yes, 3B flipped to righty.

2B was lefty heavy in 2024, but some RHBs saw time, there:

L Valdez 202 PAs

L DHam 118 PAs 

R Grissom 109 PAs (seemed like DHam played way more 2B than VG.)

R Romy 56

L-R Sogard 42

R Westbrook 39

R Rafaela 17, R reyes 16, R gasper 11, R Wong 8

 

 

[cukes]

Really excited about this season, made great moves and I think we have a real competitive club.  Injuries are going to happen lets hope they stay to a minimum.  Good luck to everybody, I haven't felt this good about tbis club in a while, let's play ball

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

42 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

 

He's too young! He's just a kid! He's... playing a game.

[mvp 78]

1 minute ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

He's too young! He's just a kid! He's... playing a game.

How's he going to respond when CHB asks him a question about dinosaurs? We may get the most long winded and rambling response in the history of the Red Sox beat reporter. 

[Brock Beauchamp]

2 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

You root for Notre Dame AND Duke? 

[Bellhorn04]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

 

Did he really say "oh shoot"?  This guy is doing everything right so far.

[mvp 78]

https://www.baseball-reference.com/previews/2025/TEX202503270.shtml

I've never looked at the bref game previews page before. I'm into it!

[mvp 78]

And here's the Statcast game feed:

https://baseballsavant.mlb.com/gamefeed?gamePk=778553

 

[Jasonbay44]

3 hours ago, Brandon Glick said:

Duke looks like UConn from the last two seasons. Flagg/Proctor/Maluach is a ridiculous threesome.
Let's hope for a Red Sox win beforehand. Duke demolition of Arizona incoming.

Arizona doesn’t have a chance. I’m hoping Maryland can keep it close with Florida 

[Jasonbay44]

MLB tv not working on opening day? Awesome 

[illinoisredsox]

Working fine for me

[mvp 78]

29 minutes ago, Jasonbay44 said:

MLB tv not working on opening day? Awesome 

I’m getting errors too.