He’s Garrett Crochet and he comes from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, a city that confuses northerners who have no idea that Mississippi even has a coastline. The Red Sox also have starters who hail from Helena, Alabama (Richard Fitts), Okeechobee, Florida (Kutter Crawford), Lilburn, Georgia (Garrett Whitlock), and Carrollton, Georgia (Cooper Criswell), so the pitchers corner of the clubhouse is probably going to smell like a catfish boil and have SEC football podcasts going 24/7.
Crochet was something of a late-bloomer in high school, initially committing to play college baseball at a nearby junior college before adding 6-7 MPH on his fastball as a senior and drawing interest from some of the biggest programs in the South.