{"id":178575,"date":"2026-04-20T10:19:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=178575"},"modified":"2026-04-20T10:19:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:19:44","slug":"%f0%9f%9a%a8-report-garrett-crochet-admits-critical-flaw-red-sox-struggles-hit-breaking-point-as-the-ace-finally-points-to-the-costly-issue-sabotaging-his-performances-and-raising-serious-concern-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=178575","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udea8 REPORT: GARRETT CROCHET ADMITS CRITICAL FLAW, RED SOX STRUGGLES HIT BREAKING POINT as the ace finally points to the costly issue sabotaging his performances and raising serious concern inside the clubhouse. What once looked like temporary inconsistency now feels deeper, with Garrett Crochet confronting a problem that could define the trajectory of the Boston Red Sox season \ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy-img\" src=\"http:\/\/res.cloudinary.com\/ybmedia\/image\/upload\/c_crop,e_improve,h_900,w_1600,x_0,y_0\/c_fill,f_auto,h_900,q_auto,w_1600\/v1\/m\/2\/3\/236a7fb1c198cee85c013db14d076eeb2ed9a4ad\/Garrett-Crochet-has-gotten-off-to-a-difficult-start.jpg\" alt=\"Red Sox\u2019 Garrett Crochet pinpoints costly issue behind struggles\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Boston Red Sox have gotten off to a brutal start this season as they are tied for last place in the American League East. While Red Sox apologists may use the hackneyed defense \u201cthat it\u2019s still early,\u201d there\u2019s little else for the Red Sox to grasp at this point. They dropped a 6-2 decision to the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park Sunday with their ace Garrett Crochet on the mound and they have an 8-13 record.<\/p>\n<p>Crochet was brilliant in the 2025 season for the Red Sox, his first with the team. He finished second in Cy Young voting and led the American League with 255 strikeouts. If there was one area of the team that the Red Sox thought they could count on this season, it was their starting pitching. If there was one starting pitcher they thought they could believe in, it was Crochet.<\/p>\n<p>It has been something of a nightmarish start to the season for Crochet. He was brutalized by the Minnesota Twins in his start last Monday as he was knocked out of the box in the second inning in a 13-6 defeat, and he was determined to come through with a bounce-back effort for the Red Sox in Sunday\u2019s start against the Tigers. No such luck for Crochet as he gave up 7 hits, 2 home runs and 5 earned runs in 5.0 innings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images2.minutemediacdn.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,w_1200,ar_16:9,f_auto,q_auto,g_auto\/images\/ImagnImages\/mmsport\/229\/01jrdzk6605q4v54dx94.jpg\" alt=\"Garrett Crochet's harsh self-critique tells Red Sox fans why he's ace  material\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Crochet had tried to explain his earlier troubles by saying his pitches had become predictable, but he changed his opinion after Sunday\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, I don\u2019t even know if that was ever really the issue,\u201d Crochet said, per Chris Cotillo of MassLive.com. \u201cI think that was more of what I thought was the issue. Right now, it\u2019s that every mistake I make is getting absolutely hammered. It\u2019s because there are mistakes when I\u2019m behind in the count.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Red Sox have gotten off to a brutal start this season as they are tied for last place in the American League East. While Red&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":178576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\ud83d\udea8 REPORT: GARRETT CROCHET ADMITS CRITICAL FLAW, RED SOX STRUGGLES HIT BREAKING POINT as the ace finally points to the costly issue sabotaging his performances and raising serious concern inside the clubhouse. 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