Gordo: Boston Red Sox Starting Pitcher Kutter Crawford Suffers Setback

[Matthew Lenz]

The Boston Red Sox continue to get bad news. Gordo of WEEI is now reporting that Boston Red Sox starting pitcher, Kutter Crawford, has suffered a setback in his rehabilitation program.

Crawford has yet to make his 2025 debut, but did make a single rehab appearance for Triple-A Worcester about a month ago. 

Crawford, 29, was initially dealing with knee soreness when players convened for Spring Training. While rehabbing his knee, wrist pain developed and has led to him being sent to Boston for an MRI. It's unclear when the MRI will take place.

The Red Sox middling rotation really needs to be bolstered and they're banking on Crawford's return as he lead the league in starts last year. Despite dealing Devers, the Red Sox plan on being buyers at the deadline and could add a starter that way if Crawford is going to be out for an extended period of time.

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[moonslav59]

Our rotation has missed a lot of starts:

16 Crawford & Sandoval (Murphy was deep end depth)

9-10 Fitts (not due to injury)

7-8 Houck

5-6 Dobbins (not due to injury)

3-4 Bello & Buehler

This pales to what the Astros can say, but it's still a lot.

[Kimmi]

On 6/22/2025 at 12:50 PM, moonslav59 said:

Our rotation has missed a lot of starts:

16 Crawford & Sandoval (Murphy was deep end depth)

9-10 Fitts (not due to injury)

7-8 Houck

5-6 Dobbins (not due to injury)

3-4 Bello & Buehler

This pales to what the Astros can say, but it's still a lot.

In contrast, the Rays' starting 5 have each made all of their starts.  They had Boyle make one start in April for some reason, probably to give the starters an extra day of rest.  Outside of that, the rotation has been the same all season, in the same order:  Pepiot, Littell, Bradley, Rasmussen, Baz.

That is incredible.

[mvp 78]