It all comes down to this weekend.
Not the playoffs, just the 2024 regular season.
The Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays battle for third place in the AL East.
Taj Bradley starts against pending free agent Nick Pivetta. Bradley is 23 and the Rays fifth round pick in 2018. Boston drafted after the Rays that year, so, how did those picks the Sox made turn out? First round...Triston Casas (Rays had already selected Matthew Liberatore). Second...Nick Decker. Third...Durbin Feltman. Fifth (after Bradley was taken) Kole Cottam. Well, that Casas fellow seems good.