Jones & Keefe: Do the Red Sox have something in Connelly Early?

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00:00The Red Sox have something in Connelly early.

00:02So I want to say yes.

00:03I also thought they had something right away in Peyton Tolley after his first start.

00:07And then he followed that up with a not so great start.

00:09Not the case for Connelly early.

00:11It is the same team though.

00:12So you do have to factor that in.

00:14He does dominate the A's.

00:16Right.

00:17If Tolley got two starts against the Pirates, maybe that would have looked differently.

00:20But you could also argue that it's a major league lineup.

00:23And the first time it was a group that hadn't seen him.

00:26Now it's a group that has seen him.

00:28And so maybe they'd be able to get to him and they didn't.

00:30So yeah, I like to think so.

00:32I mean, these are two guys that sort of got fast-tracked up through the system.

00:36And what's not to like?

00:38We've only seen two starts.

00:39He's given up one run thanks to Weissert in 10 and a third.

00:42He's not walking anybody.

00:44He's striking a bunch of guys out.

00:45Seems to have a bunch of different pitches that are effective.

00:49So yeah, I like him.

00:51I'm not going to go crazy and be like,

00:53hey, you don't even need to bring Giolito back next year or whatever.

00:55But if you have the three guys at the top of your rotation back,

00:59obviously Bayo and Crochet are back.

01:01We'll see what happens with Giolito.

01:03But if you have Tully and Early or whatever, I'll take that.

01:06Maybe Harrison.

01:07And maybe Harrison.

01:08And honestly, competition's good.

01:09Let those guys kind of fight for it.

01:11And whoever the two best guys are in spring, get the job.

01:14But another name that I certainly wasn't factoring into a potential playoff run

01:20or like the rotation to start next year.

01:22He wasn't on my radar.

01:23I mean, look, Peyton Tully wasn't on my radar in April.

01:25But that's a name we had heard about throughout the year.

01:28Well, because we kept also hearing towards the trade deadline,

01:30he's your top pitching prospect.

01:32So you're like, okay, we knew who that was.

01:33So that one was at least, you know, on our radar.

01:36Connelly Early was not on my radar until like two weeks ago.

01:39Now, maybe that's me having my head in the sand.

01:41I don't know.

01:41But like a couple of weeks before his first start,

01:44it wasn't even on my radar at all.

01:45But look at that Sox prospect.

01:46Never mind coming up and pitching the way he has.

01:47Sox prospects, they do a great job.

01:49They rank every guy in the system, basically.

01:52So you can pull up their top 60 prospects just for the Red Sox.

01:56And obviously, some of those guys have graduated on.

01:59Some of them haven't, right?

02:00So like, for example, Peyton Tully is still the number one prospect

02:03in the Red Sox system, according to Sox prospects.

02:06You know where Connelly Early ranks?

02:08Fifth.

02:09Eighth.

02:09Oh, right.

02:11And he's already up.

02:11He's already leapfrogged a couple of guys who are pitchers.

02:13Now, some of them are, you know,

02:15Kyson Witherspoon just got drafted.

02:17But there are a few other guys that are playing in Worcester

02:19or playing in Portland that he is ahead of,

02:21or he is below on those rankings.

02:23So that's why we weren't really talking about him a lot.

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