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A major move could be incoming for this Boston Red Sox organization as it seems like there is a reliable pitching option out on the unrestricted free agent market. I'm here to break down the newest name and how Colby Allard could be a reliable option for this Red Sox organization just to add another complimentary arm in the bullpen. We'll break down who Allard really is and how he could benefit from being in this Red Sox organization and really how the Red Sox could benefit from having him in their organization. We'll break down all of that on this episode of Red Sox Digest but first please do remember to scroll down and smash that subscribe button if you're a part of the near 90% watching this video not currently subscribed to the channel. We do appreciate it but now let's get to it and break down should the Red Sox take a chance on this young man. And if you don't know who he is, his name is Colby Allard and he has jumped around from very good team to very good team before ending with the Cleveland Guardians who just DFA'd him. Now this happened just a few days ago, I'm a little late to the news but I apologize but again he has not been signed yet and still seems available for this Red Sox team to go and acquire him if they want to add another left-handed bullpen arm that has a lot of upside. I will say there are a few things that obviously don't work for Allard and he cannot be a starter. We have seen him in multiple situations where he has started ballgames, not specifically this year but over the length of his career he hasn't been great in the starting position but when he is used as a relief guy he has been pretty good. He's had some ups, he's had some downs but for the most part especially this season he's been pretty damn good. Now if you look at his baseball savant page it doesn't say that but you'll understand why I'm making this case in just a second. If you look at the bottom right it shows a 5 pitch mix but if you watch him play it's really a low 90s fastball, a looping curveball that really can struggle to get down below belt high which can be a major flaw but the biggest pitch that Allard has and the most effective pitch that he has by far and away is the changeup. If you go, he's been on Pitching Ninja a million times it feels like because of that changeup. He has the ability to really be deceptive with that pitch despite only throwing 90 mph for a fastball, nothing that he can really blow by hitters but because of it coming from the southpaw side, coming from the left handed side of things and again having great deception in the ability to really sink and really fall off the plate and out of the zone, that changeup is a filthy, filthy pitch. He also has a great ability not to walk guys while also not having great whiff rate, not great chase rate. He has the ability to not walk guys, he is attacking hitters and he's throwing in the strike zone and despite that he's not getting absolutely crushed. The average exit velocity is way up because again he is throwing not that very hard but the hard hit rate is up, the ground ball rate is down. Very interesting. I don't know if this really tells the whole story, I wouldn't say it does. The yellow box or the yellow column I should say is highlighted, that is the year we are currently in and the numbers he has posted up to this point in the year for the Cleveland Guardians. He has two wins, zero losses and a 2-5-5 ERA and he has slipped a little bit if you look back in the mid-stages of June. That is when things were really working for Colby Allard, even the Phillies, a Phillies tailgate, Phillies tailgate on Twitter, a fan page of the Phillies organization, someone that he used to pitch for back how many years ago? Just last year in 2025-2024 Colby Allard did pitch for the Phillies and he was pretty damn good. Now up to this point when they made this tweet on June 18th through 27 2-3rds innings pitched he had given up 31 hits, 6 earned runs, 4 walks, 12 Ks, 1 home run, posting a 1-9-5 ERA and a 1-2-6 whip. Overall those are phenomenal numbers and yes you may say he's giving up more hits than he's actually played innings, he's not striking out a lot of guys but he's not giving up a lot of runs, he's not giving up a lot of hard hit balls in the sense of extra base hits and losing balls over the fence via home run and he's also not walking guys. It's a weird collection of things that are going on but it is simply, it has worked at least up to this point in the year for Colby Allard. I think as a left-handed option to throw into this bullpen for the Boston Red Sox, I don't know if it would really necessarily be a bad thing. Yes if you bring him in, you let him pitch a triple A start before pulling him up to the MLB level and he just simply gets shelled and he's not going to be that guy for the Red Sox, just DFA him. You don't have to hold on to him, you don't have to maintain him, you don't have to give him the keys to the bullpen, you don't have to make him a closer. Just throw him in there in an inning of relief where he could really find a good situational matchup maybe seeing a lefty or two in the three batters that he faces in that inning and I could see how he could be a great benefit to this Red Sox organization. Obviously you do have a Aroldis Chapman who is the closer of this Red Sox team and he comes of the left-handed variety, but outside of that you have Justin Wilson, you have Bernie, you have Chris Murphy, those guys are being used in relief. Aroldis is not really being used in relief, he's being used in closing situations. I feel like this could be another reliable left-handed option. We could see in relief, possibly not high leverage relief moments, but again coming in and collecting an inning of work. Maybe four outs depending on the situational matchups and he could collect outs for this Red Sox team and at least if he's not striking out a bunch of guys, at least getting ground balls to get out of innings and just really being a contributing factor, especially relying on that changeup and again facing lefties with that left-handed Southpaw delivery. Now it would only benefit the Red Sox. You can't have enough pitching, whether it's now, whether you're in October, regardless of the situation, you can never have too much pitching and if the Red Sox could bring him into this organization and allow him to adapt and learn amongst players like Garrett Crochet and if you want to focus on non-starters, players that he'd be surrounded with, Aroldis Chapman, Justin Wilson, Bernie, Chris Murphy, all lefties obviously and then you have other established relief guys like Garrett Whitlock, like Jordan Hicks who is one of the newest additions to this Red Sox organization but again, he was brought in, again, he was in San Fran, he was being used as a hybrid type of guy in the sense that he could start games, he would also be used in relief. He came to Boston and the Red Sox said, you are a reliever, you are not going to start games, you will be a high leverage reliever and it seems like it's working out up to this point in the year which is great to see but again, more notable names that have been around the MLB who have been playing baseball at a high level for a long time at an effective rate that Colby Allard can simply learn from and develop from as well as all the guys in the pitching staff and in the organization that really help and develop these guys once they're in the organization, I think it's worth taking a chance and I know the numbers don't jump off the page at you especially from this baseball savant page but if you look at the overall numbers he's produced up to this point in the year, whether it was off that June 18th tweet from the Phillies Twitter page or the Phillies tailgate Twitter page or if you're going off the numbers up to this point in the year as he did make a few more appearances post that June 18th tweet, overall he's been a pretty damn good player, a pretty reliable player that the Red Sox I really believe should take a chance on and add another piece of pitching depth to their franchise and to their organization. I don't think you can ever have too much pitching and I think it's always a benefit when you have a surplus of it because you don't have to have that panic, we don't have the depth or hey we have to turn this game into a bullpen game, we're going to end up using 5 or 6 guys in this game. If you have a surplus of arms available and ready to go that is never going to be a problem and I know you can only have 13 guys on the roster at least on the MLB level but when you have those guys down in AAA staying ready like we've seen up to this point whether it's for 1 or 2 starts before they know they're getting called up or if they're sitting down there waiting for their opportunity to get called up and make good with it, this could be a great option for the Boston Red Sox to really go out there and acquire a reliable left handed arm who has a lot of upside and still is only 27 years of age. He could have a long, long career out in front of him and really it could be one mechanical issue that is able to be fixed where he can then quickly develop and become one of the better relieving arms for the Boston Red Sox. Let me know down below what your overall opinions are on this young man and if you think his change up could get him an opportunity with this Boston Red Sox organization. Thank you guys for watching and I will see you guys on the next episode of Red Sox Digest.