Astros (Burrows) vs Red Sox (Bennett): 5/1/26, 7:10pm

[Brandon Glick]

Tonight will be Jake Bennett's debut. Yet another exciting lefty pitching prospect to unleash upon the world.

	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	TOT
Zack Kelly	4	0	20	0	0	24
Tyler Samaniego	0	0	8	0	0	8
Ryan Watson	0	0	18	0	0	18
Jovani Morán	0	0	0	39	0	39
Greg Weissert	0	10	0	13	0	23
Garrett Whitlock	19	0	0	15	0	34
Danny Coulombe	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aroldis Chapman	7	0	0	0	0	7

[vegasbob]

So the incredibly deep starting rotation of March 27 now comes down to a rookie starter going against one of the very few MLB teams with a marginally worse record than the Sox.   #1 and #2 on the IL before end of April,  Crawford may be chronic .   Bello is a bellboy , mental midget.

Looking at the Red Sox hitting stats for OBP and OPS , you could say that only Contreras and Abreu are contributing as expected.      Duran and Anthony are wandering in the desert .   Durbin contributes almost nothing .   Cedanne Rafaela is doing better than you might have expected.

Trevor @ SS, well, that's another Story with a bad ending.

[mvp 78]

[mvp 78]

He'll be wearing #64. If you have a green city connect Criswell jersey, you can wear it tonight. 

[moonslav59]

I'm hoping for the best, but coming down to this is not a good sign.

I remember soxprospects.com had Bennett projected in AA back in December. We traded away some extended rotation depth to try and add more quality. While the Perales for Bennett trade was sort of sideways, many felt it was due to Perales needing to be on the 40 and Bennet not, yet here we are.

This might have been the all healthy rotation depth chart, this year:

1 Crochet IL

2 Suarez

3 Gray IL

4 Houck IL (known to be out for the season)

5/6 Bello & Oviedo IL 60 Days

7/8 Crawford IL & Sandoval IL

9/10 Early IL & Tolle IL

11 Uberstine IL

12/13... Bennett, Rivera, Anderson

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SP'ers traded/let loose last winter/summer:

Giolito, Buehler, DMay, Newcomb, Fulmer & Priester

Dobbins, Fitts, Harrison, Criswell  Sandlin & Winckowski

Not MLB depth: Clarke, Travieso, Fajardo & Aita