With more than a week of time to reflect on the sudden end of the Red Sox’ season, it’s time to look back and grade the players who helped Boston win 89 games and reach the postseason for the first time since 2021.

The latest edition of MassLive’s Fenway Rundown podcast is a Red Sox report card, split in two parts: position players and pitchers. On the show, we grade each Red Sox player’s contributions in 2025… and explain why we gave the grades we gave out.

In Part II, we tackle Boston’s pitching staff. A few — like Robert Stock, Michael Fulmer, Jovani Morán, Nick Burdi, José De León and Isaiah Campbell — didn’t have enough innings to warrant a grade, while others (Josh Winckowski, Liam Hendriks, Kyle Harrison, Cooper Criswell, Luis Guerrero and Sean Newcomb) were given incompletes. With everyone else, we tried to assign a grade.

Here’s the entire episode, on Spotify. The grades are below. You can hear the explanations on the podcast.

RED SOX REPORT CARD — PITCHERS (LISTED BY NUMBER OF INNINGS:

SP/RP Payton Tolle: C+ (for MLB), A (for entire season) (Cotillo); C+ (for MLB) (McAdam)

RP Jordan Hicks: F (Cotillo); F (McAdam)

SP Connelly Early: A (Cotillo); A- (McAdam)

RP Steven Matz: B (Cotillo); B+ (McAdam)

SP Dustin May: F (Cotillo); D (McAdam)

RP Justin Slaten: C (Cotillo); C+ (McAdam)

RP Chris Murphy: B- (Cotillo); B- (McAdam)

RP Zack Kelly: B- (Cotillo); C- (McAdam)

SP Tanner Houck: F (Cotillo); F (McAdam)

SP Richard Fitts: C- (Cotillo); C-/D+ (McAdam)

RP Justin Wilson: A-/B+ (Cotillo); B+/B (McAdam)

RP Brennan Bernardino: B (Cotillo); B- (McAdam)

SP Hunter Dobbins: B/B- (Cotillo); B (McAdam)

CL Aroldis Chapman: A+ (Cotillo); A+ (McAdam)

RP Greg Weissert: B (Cotillo); B (McAdam)

RP Garrett Whitlock: A (Cotillo); A (McAdam)

SP Walker Buehler: D (Cotillo); D (McAdam)

SP Lucas Giolito: A- (Cotillo); B+ (McAdam)

SP Brayan Bello: A- (Cotillo); B+ (McAdam)

SP Garrett Crochet: A+ (Cotillo); A+ (McAdam)

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You can listen to Part I, where we grade the Sox’ position players, here.