{"id":57833,"date":"2025-05-27T06:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=57833"},"modified":"2025-05-27T06:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:23:32","slug":"red-sox-outfielder-rips-team-we-suck-after-falling-7-games-back-of-yankees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=57833","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox Outfielder Rips Team, \u2018We Suck,\u2019 After Falling 7 Games Back of Yankees"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<div>\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Red-Sox-Suck-Alex-Cora.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Red-Sox-Suck-Alex-Cora.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Red-Sox-Suck-Alex-Cora.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Red-Sox-Suck-Alex-Cora.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Red Sox Outfielder Rips Team, \u2018We Suck,\u2019 After Falling 7 Games Back of Yankees\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Manager Alex Cora has not been able to guide the Red Sox to a winning record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Heading into the 2025 season, the Boston Red Sox had high expectations. Most major experts, including an ESPN panel of 28 baseball analysts, picked the Red Sox to get as far as the World Series \u2014 or at minimum, to make the American League playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>On Memorial Day, generally considered the key turning point of the MLB season \u2014 when teams have played roughly one-third of their schedules \u2014 Boston lost 3-2 to the Milwaukee Brewers, wasting yet another outstanding outing by their ace, 25-year-old lefty Garrett Crochet.<\/p>\n<p>The loss, their third in a row, dropped the Red Sox to 27-29 and into fourth place in the AL East, a full seven games off the pace set by the New York Yankees \u2014 as well as 2 1\/2 games behind the Houston Astros for the third and final AL Wild Card slot.<\/p>\n<p>Boston obtained Crochet from the Chicago White Sox in December to anchor their starting rotation, giving up four of their top 14 prospects \u2014 including fourth-ranked prospect catcher Kyle Teel \u2014 to bring him to the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<h2>Red Sox Fail to Take Advantage of Crochet<\/h2>\n<p>Crochet has delivered what the team expected of him \u2014 but the Red Sox have failed to take advantage. In the 2020 first-round draft pick\u2019s last six starts he has thrown 38 innings, allowing just nine runs, an ERA of 2.13, striking out 45 against only nine walks.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, in those six games, the Red Sox have a record of 2-4. According to the \u201cPythagorean,\u201d or \u201cexpected\u201d winning percentage formula, a team that gets Crochet\u2019s ERA over those six games should win about 76 percent, or approximately 4.5 out of six.<\/p>\n<p>In his 12 starts on the season, Crochet has posted a 2.04 ERA, eighth in MLB. But his won-loss record on the Red Sox is 4-4.<\/p>\n<p>The Memorial Day loss was the 20th one-run game of the season for the Red Sox, who have played 56 games total. That\u2019s the second-most one-run decisions in MLB. Only the Atlanta Braves and Pittsburgh Pirates, with 22 each, have played more games decided by one run.<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox record in one-run contests is 6-14.<\/p>\n<p>Frustration, understandably, is starting to boil over in the Red Sox clubhouse. After Monday\u2019s loss, outfielder Rob Refsnyder gave voice to the Red Sox\u2019 mood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not for lack of effort or work ethic, game planning. It\u2019s just, we\u2019re not doing it,\u201d Refsnyder said. \u201cWe suck right now. We gotta just be better.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>No Clear Solutions Offered by Cora<\/h2>\n<p>Manager Alex Cora echoed Refsnyfder\u2019s sentiments, though he offered no solutions to the team\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, we\u2019re not putting a complete game together,\u201d he said after the Memorial Day defeat. \u201cOffensively, obviously, we didn\u2019t do much. We put pressure late in the game but, as of now, it\u2019s not happening to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"f207a7039787c7de8aca30b906cd2d1d\">\n<div data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NESN\/status\/1927117174306406761\">\n<blockquote data-dnt=\"true\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Right now, we&#8217;re not putting a complete game together. \u2026 Offensively, obviously, we didn&#8217;t do much. We put pressure late in the game but, as of now, it&#8217;s not happening to us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Alex Cora on the Red Sox losing their third straight. pic.twitter.com\/U8ozla1Hsw<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NESN (@NESN) May 26, 2025<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating. I\u2019m tired of losing. Tired of losing close games,\u201d Refsnyder added. \u201cWe just need to figure it out and win some games. Bottom line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Red Sox have also suffered some significant injuries, most notably third baseman \u2014 and Boston\u2019s premier offseason free agent signing \u2014 Alex Bregman, who is expected to miss significant time with a quad muscle strain.<\/p>\n<p>Bregman was batting .299 with a .938 OPS when he was injured on Friday. His wRC+ \u2014 a measure of a player\u2019s run creation value in which MLB average is always 100 \u2014 of 159 was second on the team to the 160 posted by designated hitter Rafael Devers.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Vankin JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist and writer who now covers baseball and other sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Press Association awards for sports feature writing. Vankin is also the author of five nonfiction books on a variety of topics, as well as nine graphic novels including most recently &#8220;Last of the Gladiators&#8221; published by Dynamite Entertainment. 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