Garrett Crochet and the Red Sox didn’t agree to a contract extension ahead of the player’s Opening Day deadline.
However, it sounds like both sides made significant progress and that talks will resume in the future.
Asked by WEEI’s Rob Bradford if he thought he would ink an extension before taking the mound in Texas on Thursday, Crochet thought it could go either way.
“I wasn’t quite sure. It was fairly down to the wire,” Crochet said. “So I really wasn’t sure. It was just kind of waiting to hear. There was communication the entire time.