MAJOR Red Sox Pitching UPDATE... This changes EVERYTHING | Red Sox News

We have some major updates coming out of the Red Sox organization involving one of their key young starting pitchers in Brian Baez and how he might be ready for opening day after dealing with some shoulder inflammation. Welcome back to Red Sox Digest. I'm Houston and I'm here to break down all the new information that we have on our young star pitcher and how he could be ready for opening day. I'll break it all down on this episode of Red Sox Digest. But first, remember, if you're a part of the 85.5% currently watching this video, not currently subscribed to the channel, and you want to stay up to date on everything, Boston Red Sox, scroll down, click the subscribe button. We do appreciate all the love and support. So, again, thank you guys so very much for everything. But now let's get to it and break it down. how Baez is right on pace. Now, there was a lot of discussions on whether or not he was going to be eligible and was going to be ready by opening day. Again, we are in the month. We are less than, what, 24 days away from opening day. It's exciting. I can't wait. But again, are we going to be at full strength? Now, it's obvious that Garrett Crochet will most likely, and when I say most likely, he's going to be our opening day starter for the Red Sox. He's going to be that guy. he's our number one guy no surprise there but Brian Baez last year was one of the top guys in our starting rotation and now after all of our new acquisitions it's interesting to see where he actually will land right now he's listed as the number five starting pitcher obviously Patrick Sandoval has not returned he's still dealing with injury we won't see him until the halfway point of this up and coming season as well as Cutter Crawford is also dealing with an injury himself So two other reliable arms we will most likely see added to this starting rotation by the time we are at the halfway point of this season. It's going to be interesting. We will be able to add another Southpaw and Sandoval, which will be huge because only having one, at least in the starting rotation, isn't exactly what you're looking for. But again, we're more than well off because of the amount of talent we went out and acquired this past offseason. And really the improvements that we're going to see from players that we've already had from last season. and the number one guy is going to be Baez. And the reason I say that is because this kid is only 25 years of age and he is a flat-out stud. I know if we look at the baseball savant page, nothing jumps off the page at you, I should say. That makes you think, wow, this guy is an elite-level pitcher. He's going to be an ace and a Cy Young candidate type of pitcher later down the line. But just give the young man some time. He's working out with some of the best all-time baseball players and pitchers at that. and when I say that I'm speaking of Pedro Martinez now that he recently threw a bullpen but we'll get to that in just a second now last year he was in the 90th percentile in ground ball ground ball percentage everything else was right around league average if not just below it except the fastball velo and I honestly I wouldn't be worrying about the injuries making a big effect on the fastball velo I believe he's going to be right back near it and again we'll break down his last bullpen and how that went and really what the velo was looking at there but the last thing I'm going to highlight yes he did have a 4.42 ERA last season I understand but he won 14 games for this Red Sox organization last year when he was on the mound he went 14 and where is where's his win loss uh uh 14 and 8 I'm sorry I was looking at his totals I was gonna say he won 28 games last year that didn't happen 14 wins 8 losses last season yes he was playing alongside a great offense one of the top 10 offenses in all of baseball and we only got better offensively we went out and added Bregman Masha is now back and he seems to be healthy and right Devers is obviously coming back off the shoulder injuries we are well put together and with these young prospects we have more offensive capabilities than we really had last season and I can't wait to see how these starting pitchers including Bale as well as others like Crochet and Buehler all greatly greatly just just thrive with these offensive capabilities that they have playing behind them now back on February 17th I know this is a little dated Tyler Milliken went out and posted this video of Bayo throwing now he was literally just going through the motions it was nothing special he wasn't even really doing his full wind up he was just kind of finding his footing and getting through it now I can't tell you how far he was actually throwing because that's a huge part of this but because I don't the angle is literally just of Baio and really his form and his really just physique if you will but then we move on to more recently February 28th where Christopher Smith posted this as well as an article confirming that Brian Bale was back throwing the baseball in a competitive manner where he posted this tweet Brian Baio throwing his first bullpen since returning from his shoulder soreness then we get another one where he reposted that exact tweet with this as it says Brian Baio says they asked him to throw 80 to 89 miles per hour and go about 70 to 75 effort he said he is on track for opening day again this is on february 28th so these are massive updates massive strides from Baio to really improve and gain some momentum going into that opening day really be on track and find a pace where not only is he working out But being effective and smart while doing so and not over pushing his body to really try to physically demand himself to be better. And when I say better, I mean physically better in the sense of wellness than he already is, which is good because we don't want to force anything, have him be set back even more. And then we lose him for another period of time, which is not what we want. We want to see this young man work again to highlight his baseball reference 14 and eight last year with that 449 ERA. Again, it's not the greatest numbers in the world when you look at expected run average. It's going to be really interesting to see how he does this year. If we get a relatively healthy Baio, I think he is another 10-plus win pitcher, just like the last two years. I know that really goes over everyone's, kind of like, what we're looking at here, where everyone looks at the ERA, everyone looks at this, everyone looks at that. I believe Baio is going to win another 10-plus games for this Red Sox organization, despite having players like Buehler and Crochet out in front of him in this rotation, as well as others. By the halfway point, I think he will be legitimately our number three, if not our number four starting pitcher. He had 10-plus quality starts, and again, with 10-plus wins in these back-to-back seasons, I really think we're going to see a, if not better season than this past two. And again, I just can't wait to see how this young man really performs. Now, to highlight the article we mentioned earlier, written by, who was it? It was Christopher Smith, I apologize, which was also posted on MassLiveSports Twitter. He goes on to say Red Sox Alex Cora provided injury updates on Brian Bayo, Connor Wong, and others. Again, this is posted on the 26th, two days before he threw that bullpen. And again, Fort Myers, Florida, Red Sox starter Brian Bayo, who was shut down for a few days earlier in camp because of a shoulder soreness, will throw a bullpen session Friday, manager Alex Cora said. The Red Sox still think Bayo will be ready for the opening day roster. So again, just reestablishing and reiterating from a much more credible source in the sense of Alex Cora, that again, we should be right on pace. Brian Bayo should be right on pace to meet the opening day standard and we'll be ready to go. Now again, do not expect him to be our opening day starter. It is going to be Garrett Crochet. But again, the point is the same. It's very exciting. I'm now going to play the clip of Brian Bayo working out in the bullpen with the one and only Pedro Martinez something that we see we have seen for the last what two three years from the Red Sox organization because again Pedro loves the Red Sox it's something that he is more than willing to help with and really come in and talk to these young guys whether they be position players or starting pitching or just any type of pitcher in itself so again I'm going to play it now it's not a very long clip but again it looks like they're working on his change up based off the grip that Pedro's having Bayo actually perform so again here it is yeah Brian Bayo working out with Pedro Martinez it's not the first time we have seen something like this in the offseason again last year I believe they were working out in the Dominican Republic not something to be obviously surprised about and now they're doing it again but just at spring training the scenery changes just a little bit but the idea is still the same a legend working with a young promising arm in the Red Sox organization something we should really really enjoy because again Bayo is only going to get levels and levels better year after year especially when you add the level of coaching that you're getting from Pedro Martinez one of the best pitchers in the history of baseball again let me know down below what you guys think about the potential of Brian Bayo and what to expect this upcoming season thank you guys for watching and I will see you guys on the next episode of Red Sox Insider