00:00The Red Sox way to success is to have the starters go six innings.
00:04Connelly Early was fantastic yesterday.
00:06Six innings, one run, two hits.
00:08Red Sox, check me if I'm wrong, 7-0 when their starters go six innings, 0-11 when they don't?
00:15That's exactly right.
00:16Yeah, that's the key.
00:17If they get six, they win.
00:19And it's, I mean, it's a fairly simple formula for most teams.
00:23If you get six innings, Crochet said it a couple, remember the game against Mizrowski,
00:28Milwaukee, he said his goal was just to go deeper than Mizrowski.
00:31Because if I go deeper than their starter, I know we've got a pretty good chance to win.
00:34But if you go six, you know, baseball across the game now, if you go six, that's long in this
00:40day and age.
00:41But for the Red Sox, it's been everything because there's a little Jekyll and Hyde stuff here with the starters.
00:46You know, they've been either really good or we've had some really bad starts.
00:50And that's a tough way to live.
00:52You know, it's kind of like the Bruins in the beginning of the season.
00:54It was the weirdest 500 team I ever saw.
00:55You'd win six in a row and then lose six in a row and you're 500.
00:58But that's not, you know, those are peaks and valleys.
01:01You know, that's not what a 500 team feels like.
01:03So, yeah, I mean, this was supposed to be an elite starting rotation.
01:08And you had it one turn through.
01:10The one that began with that start for Crochet against Milwaukee went all the way through to the end.
01:15They had a 1.5-something ERA over five starts, which is why you felt so good going into Minnesota.
01:21I, you know, we'll never know because they keep this stuff in house.
01:24I got to think Minnesota had something on Crochet.
01:28It's interesting, right?
01:30Victor Caratini used to be with Houston.
01:32Houston's always hitting pretty well.
01:33Caratini's now with Minnesota.
01:35Minnesota's always hitting pretty well.
01:36So, sometimes, I don't know, it's not as straight as tipping.
01:39It's not that simple.
01:40Well, Houston cheats.
01:42Follow the line.
01:44But some teams do figure out something about a guy, you know, some kind of little tell that they'll keep
01:51in house.
01:52And that's one thing.
01:53One thing Rich was saying, I was going to get another thing I had never thought of before.
01:57He goes, sometimes you get a guy who moves to your team.
01:59And you go to him and like, yeah, you've always hit me well.
02:03Do you have something on me?
02:04Hey, those guys won't tell you because they might end up playing for another team someday and they don't want
02:10to give it up because they want to hit you.
02:12So, baseball can be a tough sport.
02:14But I have to ask you, if Crochet's right and he's at his best, isn't it true that even if
02:22he's tipping a bit, you're not getting 10 runs off of him?
02:25Like, Crochet's good enough, like you can know what's coming, right?
02:29Like, Crochet's good enough that if I know he's throwing a, if I'm left-handed and I know he's throwing
02:34a fast, I know he's, let's say I'm left-handed, I know he's throwing a slider.
02:38I'm not hitting it necessarily.
02:40I'm not hitting it hard necessarily, right?
02:43Like, there's, like, if he's on, that shouldn't be 10.
02:47Right, if he's on, it shouldn't be 10 runs.
02:51No, no, that's exactly right.
02:52His velocity was down and he discounted it, but it was about a mile and a half down.
02:57My concern is it was down through spring training as well.
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