{"id":3851,"date":"2026-06-29T10:03:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:03:31","slug":"red-sox-ace-garrett-crochet-tries-to-make-sense-of-an-achingly-slow-rehab-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3851","title":{"rendered":"Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet tries to make sense of an achingly slow rehab process"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>It\u2019s been more than two months since Red Sox ace Garrett Crochet landed on the injured list with what was described as mild left shoulder inflammation, and more than a month since he last threw a baseball. And so it is natural to wonder: Is there a more serious injury in play?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3849\">Americans\u2019 pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>Crochet, who is admittedly bewildered by the amount of time he\u2019s missed, understood why the question was asked \u2014 but waved off the notion of a larger issue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think I\u2019m at risk of surgery, if that\u2019s what you\u2019re asking,\u201d Crochet said genially.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Crochet was asked to clarify further: Surgery is not part of the conversation about his needed course of treatment? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCorrect,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cI\u2019m structurally fine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>So why has it taken him so long to return to pitching? To answer that question, the lefthander \u2014 who turned 27 last week \u2014 rewound to the offseason.<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>Get Starting Point<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span>A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><label>Enter Email<\/label><\/p>\n<div><button>Sign Up<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Red Sox can take hope from the 1996 team\u2019s turnaround<\/div>\n<p><span>Crochet threw a career-high 213 innings between the regular season and playoffs in 2025, a 46 percent increase of workload from the previous season with the White Sox. When he started throwing in the offseason, Crochet realized with hindsight he was navigating lingering fatigue.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was still kind of experiencing that hangover from last year, and once I started throwing again, maybe my mechanics just weren\u2019t in a great spot,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cAnd then as the buildup occurred, that just continued to get further from the norm.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While working out, Crochet was getting to typical velocities, but he now recognizes that his body was likely creating \u201ccompensation patterns\u201d to take stress off the rotator cuff after last year\u2019s demands. Out-of-whack mechanics stressed different areas around his shoulder, such as the ligaments of the shoulder capsule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He didn\u2019t feel discomfort or acute pain, but noticed some puzzling developments \u2014 particularly an unusual string of hit batters. Crochet clipped three hitters in all of 2025; he drilled two in spring training and four more in April. Of those six HBPs, four came on fastballs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI was just having misses that aren\u2019t typical to me,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cIt was like, \u2018What the [expletive] is going on?\u2019 \u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Biomechanical changes started to become evident to the Sox, including the tilt of his hips, which in turn changed the position of his arm angle relative to the ground. His body was trying to position itself to throw the ball with typical power and effect, but that search resulted in inconsistency \u2014 outings where he dominated (two outings of six scoreless frames) and others where he had nothing (1\u2154 innings, 11 runs vs. the Twins). That inconsistency contributed to a 6.30 ERA in six starts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Finally, shoulder discomfort entered the equation in late April, and he was put on the injured list. The soreness went away relatively quickly, and so he started throwing aggressively again by mid-May.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3847\">Scottie Scheffler sinks putt on 18th hole to force playoff at Travelers Championship on Monday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>But his mechanics still weren\u2019t right, resulting in a frustrating bullpen session in Kansas City. He rebounded with what he saw as an encouraging live batting practice session against teammates at Fenway on May 26, but again, atypical mechanics created mild soreness in his lat muscle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c[The injury doesn\u2019t trace] to a certain point. It was kind of just a gradual effect of different mechanics that the body\u2019s not used to,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cIt had been months of throwing improperly. It\u2019s gonna take a little bit of time to I guess rework the throw or rework the movement pattern.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span>Related<span>: <\/span><\/span>Jake Bennett has been everything the Red Sox could have hoped for when they traded for him in the offseason<\/div>\n<p><span>Crochet and the Sox are now slow-playing his buildup. He\u2019s been throwing \u201coverload\u201d plyo balls \u2014 heavier-than-normal baseballs, so that he builds shoulder strength but with less arm speed to minimize injury risk \u2014 to re-train his rotator cuff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cRight now, it\u2019s just trying to break it down to proper mechanics, letting the right muscles fire at the right time and perform the right task,\u201d said Crochet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>It\u2019s not fun watching paint dry, and Crochet is struggling with the restrictions of the rehab process. But he\u2019s pain-free and sees progress \u2014 even if he doesn\u2019t know when the Sox will green-light him to start playing catch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re being overly cautious. I just think that we\u2019re being cautious, the way you should be,\u201d said Crochet. \u201cI\u2019m 27. I\u2019ve got a lot of baseball left. I\u2019ve got a lot of baseball left here. Thankfully, I\u2019m protected by signing a contract last year with this team, so they kind of have a reason to take care of me.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Crochet is grateful to have that six-year, $170 million extension he signed at the start of last season. He believes it freed him to focus on baseball and emerge as one of the sport\u2019s top pitchers in 2025. Now, it\u2019s also removed the anxiety of navigating a free-agent walk year while on the injured list.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>That said, the contract also came with a sense of responsibility to the team and organization.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s the tough part about right now,\u201d he said. \u201cYou feel not pressure, but more just an ethical obligation. It\u2019s like, I need to [expletive] get back because I\u2019m not being paid to sit on the bench or sit on the IL and just kind of waste away as the season\u2019s going. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cBut also, I\u2019m gonna be here for a long time, and so I have to make sure that I can throw the rest of it healthy as soon as I\u2019m back.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He feels he\u2019s making the needed progress to do just that \u2014 even if not at the pace he\u2019d expected or hoped for when this odyssey began.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3845\">Iran\u2019s president says $6b in frozen assets in Qatar to be released as US talks challenged<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If the star southpaw is structurally fine, why is it taking him so long to return to the mound?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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