WEEI Afternoon Show: Alex Cora on developing young pitchers

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00:00We've talked to you about the injuries and having to do a lot of different things in

00:03terms of personnel and lineup.

00:05But how much did you appreciate the fact that you have three starting pitchers that went

00:08out there 30 or more times and actually with Pavetta, four guys with 25 or more starts?

00:13How much did that, at least on the pitching side, make your job easier?

00:17Well, as you guys know, the narrative since Clay Buckholtz, right, and then John Lester

00:23is the Red Sox don't have homegrown starters.

00:27Well, now we have three and they did an amazing job.

00:31If you look at the season, right, don't only look at the first half for Baio or Crawford

00:38in the middle of the season and Tanner a little bit right up to the all-star break.

00:41If you see the whole body of work, pretty solid, man.

00:45It's been fun to watch the way they finish, you know, they pitch extremely well in September

00:50when it really matters, you know, when they're getting to a point here that they don't know,

00:56you know, what's starting at the big leagues, 22 games, 25 games, 28 games and now 30.

01:02And all of them are healthy, they're doing an outstanding job, you know, taking care

01:08of themselves, understanding what they need to do to maneuver a season and the future

01:14is right.

01:15And right now, we always have exit meetings regardless of where you're at in the standings

01:19and we talked to Tanner yesterday, we talked to Crawford today.

01:24And now, because they have those 30 starts under the belt, going into spring training

01:29next year, you know, they can be a little bit more vocal, right, what the expectations

01:34of the group is, you know, if there's a rookie that is out of line or doesn't look the part,

01:40right, he comes out of shape, they can actually go to them and ask for more.

01:44You know what I'm saying?

01:45And I'm very proud of the three of them.