How Red Sox’s Garrett Crochet Trade Affected This Free Agent Pitcher
Jack Flaherty remains on the market
The Boston Red Sox made sure they’d enter the 2025 season with a much-improved starting rotation. The acquisitions of Garrett Crochet and Walker Buehler ensured that.
Jack Flaherty thought Boston could have been an option for him until the Red Sox got aggressive in the starting pitching market.
“You’ve got the White Sox trading away Crochet, who’s one of their only pieces they have, to the Red Sox,” Flaherty shared on “Foul Territory” during Thursday’s episode. “Kudos to the Red Sox for going and getting him. That takes a spot away from where I potentially could have gone.”
The Red Sox indeed pivoted to another option for a second rotation addition with the one-year deal for Buehler. Meanwhile, Flaherty remains on the free-agent market fresh off a World Series championship with the Los Angeles Dodgers. He won 13 games with a 3.17 ERA across 28 starts between the Detroit Tigers and the Dodgers. Despite a few playoff slip-ups, Flaherty is still one of the more reliable mid-rotation options still available.
Plenty of teams still need pitching and Flaherty should have a new home before the start of spring training. Elsewhere, Boston hopes its own rotation upgrades play a factor in ending a three-year playoff drought.
