Baseball is such a beautifully stupid game! It’s filled with black swan events and wild contradictions. Chaos often rules the day, and the grueling grind of a 162 game season is sometimes the only stabilizing force keeping the highly improbable at bay.
Enter the 2024 Red Sox rotation of Brayan Bello, Nick Pivetta, Kutter Crawford, Garrett Whitlock and Tanner Houck. You may remember this group from last year’s wildly mediocre pitching staff, and since the Red Sox didn’t bother to add any arms to the rotation that are ready to pitch this year, not a single one of the guys they have in this role now is new to the roster.