There’s still plenty of meaningful baseball ahead of us, but that doesn’t mean we can’t start thinking about offseason awards. So about a Cy Young for Garrett Crochet? While Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers has been the frontrunner all season long, Crochet and Skubal are extremely close in a number of categories, with Crochet leading the league in innings pitched and strikeouts, while Skubal leads in ERA, fWAR, and strikeout rate. Not even Pedro won the Cy Young in his first season in Boston, so Crochet nabbing
it here would be cool as hell. (Alex Speier, Boston Globe)
Needless to say, Dustin May is not going to win the Cy Young Award. But he did just have his second strong outing in a row. Though in the case of last night’s game, it was only the final line that was strong. May actually struggled with control all night and, by his own admission, had “no idea” where the ball was going. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
Jovani Moran also struggled in last night’s game, and it’ll be his last Red Sox appearance for a while. The reliever was demoted to Worcester after the game, with Brennan Bernardino getting the call back up to the show. Bernardino threw four innings in his brief stint down the pike, allowing one run. (Christopher Smith, MassLive)
Bernardino has already been worked a hell of a lot this season, but the Red Sox need to find some answers in the bullpen beyond Aroldis Chapman and Garrett Crochet. After all, the late-season collapses that have plagued the team in recent memory were caused in large part by depleted pens. (Rob Bradford, WEEI)
And finally, since we started this piece with awards talk, lets end it the same way… albeit with two very different kinds of awards. Awful Announcing released the results of their MLB announcer fan poll this year. Taking the top spot as the most beloved play-by-play man in baseball is, yup, Don Orsillo. Good on you, Announcer Boy, come back any time. (Andrew Bucholtz, Awful Announcing)
Here’s something Don didn’t win, though: the Jarren Duran lookaalike contest, which turned out to be more meaningful than it sounds. (Trevor Hass, Boston.com)
