Jones & Keefe: Is it time to worry about Garrett Crochet?

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00:00Garrett Crochet, I would feel better about chalking this up as just one bad start

00:04if it didn't come on the heels of his worst month with the Red Sox.

00:08Now, still a good month, okay?

00:11I mean, most pitchers would take a month where they have an ERA of 319.

00:15Oh, yeah.

00:15But we've talked all year, and even from when they initially acquired him,

00:20talked about acquiring him last year, can he handle the full workload?

00:23You know, you look at his month-by-month ERA, 185, 203, 290, 173, 319.

00:30So he's already coming off, again, his worst month.

00:32It's not a bad month, just his worst month.

00:34And then he has that start that he has last night.

00:37He's made his last two games on normal rest.

00:39Neither one has he looked like vintage Crochet.

00:41Last night was seven earned, where it looked like he was cruising until the sixth.

00:45Seven!

00:45The start before, thank you, Nick.

00:47He was more hittable, I'd say, than normal, against Baltimore.

00:51So, are there reasons to be concerned about him?

00:55Was last night a one-off?

00:56Are the innings starting to catch up with Crochet?

00:59How are you feeling based on the trend line with him?

01:01Well, I'll tell you what.

01:02We have an early nominee for Stat of the Week.

01:06Wow!

01:06Courtesy of Brian Barrett.

01:07Used to work here, now at The Ringer.

01:09He's talking about Garrett Crochet.

01:12On four days rest this year, he has a 3.48 ERA.

01:16On five days rest, a 2.29 ERA.

01:21And that's almost a run and a half different.

01:25And again, 3.48, that's a good starter.

01:26It's a quality starter.

01:27That's solid.

01:27You'll take 3.48, but you're shaving more than a runoff as ERA by waiting an extra day.

01:31But one of the reasons why we like the team and why this team is different than it was last year

01:36and why they couldn't make noise in the playoffs is because you have one of the best pitchers in baseball,

01:39which is more the 2.29 ERA.

01:41He points out, too, the last two games were on four days rest.

01:48He went ten straight starts of at least five days rest for ten straight starts, like he says,

01:54before the Orioles outing.

01:56So because of off days and things like that, not like they were skipping them or pushing them,

02:00but they had the off days sort of lined up where he didn't have to throw with only four days rest.

02:04He had the five days rest of that sort of extra day, despite still being in a regular five-man rotation.

02:10And he lights out with that.

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