00:00Do the Red Sox have enough pitching come October?
00:03You know, we're not relitigating the deadline.
00:06I agree with you on that.
00:07But do they have enough?
00:09I think they do.
00:10I think they do.
00:11And I know Dustin May is not somebody that you can rely on.
00:15I don't want him even pitching in October.
00:20Fitz just got hurt if you were kind of counting on him at all.
00:23But I think you're still doing a lot better than most teams
00:27when you can throw Crochet, Baio, Giolito.
00:31And then, oh, by the way, Whitlock and Chapman are as good of an 8-9 combo
00:34as we've seen.
00:36Like, they're filthy, those guys.
00:37What is it?
00:3813 appearances?
00:38Chapman hasn't given up a hit?
00:39Yeah.
00:40And they had him warming up last night.
00:43They even need him, which for once they didn't need to go to him.
00:45He's absurd.
00:46He's ridiculous.
00:47Out of all the guys that Breslow has swung and missed on,
00:50like Jordan Hicks and Dustin May,
00:52Matz might give you something.
00:54Matz isn't bad.
00:55The one time he gave up runs, it was bad.
00:57But other than that, and he's gotten out of some jams,
00:59like that play at third in the Yankees series,
01:02he got himself out of a jam there.
01:04But no, Matz has been pretty good.
01:05So all of a sudden, but I have like at least five pitchers, right?
01:09Because Cora also, as we know, is going to move his pitchers around,
01:11do different things with them.
01:12You have at least five pitchers that you feel great about.
01:16Then you have a few other guys that might be sort of just outside of that list.
01:20So, yeah, it's not perfect by any means,
01:23but I do think they have enough.
01:24I also do.
01:25So, especially if you're going to have the offense that they've had,
01:28and it's been a while since I've looked this up, Keith.
01:31Let me just double check where they're at.
01:34Run scored their second in the AL behind New York.
01:37Run differential their second in the AL behind New York.
01:40So if you're going to have that kind of offense,
01:43and I do think the offense is going to translate.
01:45I know they've struggled against some top-end pitchers,
01:47and we've highlighted that.
01:48They also knocked around Frember Valdez.
01:50So it's not every single pitcher they've faced.
01:54Maybe the offense comes down a little bit.
01:56I do think they have enough pitching.
01:58And I would agree with you.
01:59It's not just starting pitching.
02:01It's the bullpen as well.
02:02That doesn't mean they couldn't have added more.
02:03They should have added more.
02:05It'd be great to have even more pitching than they do.
02:07But I do think the answer is they have enough.
02:09Those guys, meaning Crochet, Baio, and Giolito,
02:12have been locked in now for a while.
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