Bastards of Boston Baseball (Red Sox) · Red Sox Podcast

2026 MLB WIDE PREDICTIONS!

March 24, 2026·1 hr 36 min·5 clips

The show opens in a swaggering Boston sports-radio mood. It leans on jokes, championship energy, and another reminder that the room cares too much to stay calm for long. The panel quickly pivots into MLB prediction mode. From there, the conversation narrows on the pitcher race, because that is where the sharpest disagreement lives. Garrett Crochet is the first name to draw heat. He is treated as the kind of arm who can win the argument on talent alone, but only if the workload does not wear him down and the lineup gives him enough support to turn strong outings into actual results. The speakers keep coming back to the same tension. He looks dominant enough to make a 20 win fantasy feel possible, and also fragile enough to invite no decision frustration if the Red Sox keep missing behind him. Skubal stays in the mix as one of the obvious top tier options. The discussion does not dismiss him so much as place him beside Crochet before the panel decides to go elsewhere. Brian Woo is the more surprising pick. He comes across as the safe contrarian choice: efficient enough to avoid wasting pitches, backed by a Mariners club that could turn good innings into a pile of wins, and good for a big strikeout total if he stays healthy. The crew likes the shape of that case. They point to the low walk rate, the strikeouts, and the chance at 30 plus starts if health cooperates. At several points the argument folds back on itself. One person pushes the ceiling, another worries about burnout, and then the room resets and makes the same point again in a sharper form. That back and forth is the show’s real rhythm. It feels less like a formal preview than a fan table trying to talk itself into a pick while still remembering every caution flag. The ads and tangents slow the pace here and there, but they also make the structure feel casual in a good way. Listeners get a Red Sox specific baseball argument that puts projection, annoyance, and context on the same level.

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A Red Sox-flavored pitching debate that stays strongest when it gets specific.

This episode settles into a Red Sox-centered pitching debate, and it is at its best when the panel zeroes in on Garrett Crochet. The talk stays practical, leaning on workload concerns, run support, and the familiar problem of a strong arm being left with no-decisions by a thin…

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When the 2026 MLB guesses start, Crochet becomes the argument.

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