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Time of India
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Who is Red Sox pitcher Garrett Crochet's wife Rachel? All about their relationship timeline
Image Source: Getty Garrett Crochet, a star pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, is known for his amazing skills on the baseball field. Behind him is his wife, Rachel Crochet, who supports him through every step of his career. Rachel stays out of the spotlight, but her love and encouragement shine in their life together. Rachel supports Garrett's Red Sox journey Rachel is the loving wife of Garrett a pitcher who joined the Boston Red Sox in December 2024. Not much is known about her but she's always there for Garrett. When he joined the Boston Red Sox after being with the Chicago White Sox for a while, Rachel was willing to change cities because she was excited for a new start. In February 2025, she was very happy to watch Garrett play in his Red Sox uniform for the first time in spring training. She also joined him at Fenway Fest in January 2025, their first big event with the Red Sox. When Garrett signed a huge $170 million contract in April 2025, Rachel showed her happiness with a simple word: 'Home." Her quiet support and small gestures show how much she cares about Garrett's success. She's his biggest cheerleader as he shines in Boston. Also Read: Tension boils over as Yankees and Red Sox collide in series finale at Yankee Stadium Key moments in Garrett Crochet and Rachel's relationship Garrett and Rachel Crochet's love story has grown alongside his baseball career, filled with special moments. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Pinga-Pinga e HBP? Tome isso 1x ao dia se tem mais de 40 anos Portal Saúde do Homem Clique aqui Undo They got engaged in February 2021 when Garrett proposed with roses and candles in their Arizona backyard. They married before his first MLB game in September 2020. They've been together since the start. In 2022, when Garrett had Tommy John surgery, Rachel helped him through his recovery and made him stronger for his 2024 season. Their move to Boston in December 2024 was a big change, but Rachel was ready to start fresh. In February 2025, Garrett shared a dream he had talked about with Rachel: playing for the Red Sox with Alex Bregman. That dream came true when Bregman joined the team. Rachel's love and support keep Garrett going as he pitches with a 1.38 ERA in 2025. Their relationship is built on teamwork and care, helping them face every new challenge together.
Boston Globe
31-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Red Sox rookie catcher Carlos Narváez having no problem with extra workload
'Really good,' Narváez said. 'I always feel like I'm stronger in the second half of the season. But I feel fine.' Narváez is performing at a high level defensively and through Friday had hit .286 with an .814 OPS. Saturday's game against the Braves was the fourth time he's hit cleanup this season. Related : For a team that needed righthanded hitters to balance the lineup, Narváez has been invaluable. Among qualified American League rookies, Narváez is second in OPS, tied for fourth in RBIs (17), and second in doubles (11). The only Red Sox catcher to win Rookie of the Year was Hall of Famer Carlton Fisk in 1972. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Narváez met Fisk in January at the team's 'Fenway Fest' event. Maybe that has something to do with it. Advertisement 'He's very diligent with his work. So far so good,' manager Alex Cor a said. 'You see the numbers defensively … I don't know about the other rookies this month, but he should be top three for rookie of the month, if not rookie of the month. 'He keeps getting better. In a perfect world, he should be hitting seven for us, make the lineup deeper. But this is where we at right now.' Related : Cora said the medical staff is keeping a close eye on how Narváez is handling the workload. He also discusses the intricacies of his position with game-planning coach Jason Varitek and catching coach Parker Guinn . Advertisement 'I think the staff is doing an amazing job the mental side of it,' Cora said. 'He's still learning the game. Sometimes it's not that you question or second guess to pitch right, but you have to walk him through situations.' Narváez isn't worried about wearing down. 'This is what I wanted, to be an everyday player in the major leagues,' he said. 'I'll do whatever they need me to do.' Gonzalez back on the field Romy Gonzalez batted second and played first for Triple A Worcester at Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. It was the first game in what is expected to be a brief rehabilitation assignment. He is scheduled to DH on Sunday and could rejoin the Sox as soon as Monday. Gonzalez has been on the injured list since May 8 with a large bruise on his left thigh. 'We'll have a [roster] decision to make when Romy comes back,' Cora said. Nick Sogard , who has appeared in one of the last five games, could be the odd man out. Righthander Kutter Crawford , who has been out all season rehabilitating an injured right knee, is set to start a rehab assignment next week. Special visitor Much to Cora's delight, former teammate J.D. Drew popped into the dugout during batting practice to say hello. Drew, who lives in Georgia, played for the Sox from 2007-11 … Richard Fitts , Brayan Bello , and Lucas Giolito are lined up to face the Angels at Fenway starting on Monday. Peter Abraham can be reached at
New York Times
13-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Brayan Bello admits feeling pressure from contract extension, ready now to handle high expectations
FORT MYERS, Fla. — This time last year, Brayan Bello was coming off his first full season as a starter, one in which he'd taken a solid step forward in his young career, which in turn earned him a six-year, $55 million contract extension and a start on Opening Day. But as swiftly as Tanner Houck emerged to take over the No. 1 spot in the rotation last season, Bello faltered, struggling to a 5.40 ERA through 16 starts at the All-Star break. Advertisement To his credit, Bello worked to reincorporate his four-seamer and found a better rhythm and mentality on the mound, finishing out the year with a 4.49 ERA over a career-high 30 starts. In the midst of a tough season, Bello denied that the contract forced him to put too much pressure on himself. With an offseason to reflect, the 25-year-old offered a different tone on Wednesday, the first official day for pitchers and catchers in Red Sox camp. 'Yeah, I definitely felt the pressure early on, especially in the first half, just wanting to live up to the contract,' Bello said through translator Daveson Perez. 'Second half, a bunch of folks here spoke with me and told me to just take it easy and play my game and things went really well in the second half.' As part of a preview clip for the upcoming Netflix documentary that was shown at Fenway Fest last month, Bello's internal angst was on display as cameras showed him in the clubhouse trying to calm his nerves ahead of Opening Day, the biggest start of his career to that point. MLB and Netflix announced on Wednesday the documentary will air on April 8. 'A lot of blessings happen, a lot of beautiful things,' Bello said of the extension, 'but it came with some pressure, so now I just feel really relaxed and ready to go.' When all was said and done, there's little doubt Bello, Houck and Kutter Crawford individually — and collectively as a homegrown unit — took a step forward on the mound last season. Each pitched a career-high in innings and found ways to rebound after inevitable struggles. But for Bello, in particular, 2024 was supposed to be his season to emerge as the club's No. 1 starter. Instead, it served as part of his learning curve. Too often, he let his emotions take over and let innings get away from him as he lost control mentally. Advertisement 'The biggest thing I learned is just to not let negativity linger, start to start,' he said. 'Just kind of shorten it. 'Not letting the starts snowball when things go wrong is something I'm really working on.' It's part of maturing as a player, but also something manager Alex Cora admitted, with hindsight, that Bello could have worked on in the minors if he'd had more time to develop before his 2022 big-league debut. 'Did he need a little more in the minor leagues?' Cora said. 'Probably, but where we were at at that point as an organization it was good for him to come here and get his feet wet and learn at the big-league level and that's what he's doing. 'Physically he looks good,' Cora added. 'Just keep making pitches, that changeup is a real weapon, the slider is better, four-seamer was better than years past.' Bello, who is just one month older than Garrett Crochet, could also benefit from a rotation where he and Houck aren't forced to carry the load. Crochet only has one year of MLB experience in a rotation, but has the makings of a No. 1 starter. Walker Buehler and a now-healthy Lucas Giolito figure to give the rotation the veteran experience it lacked last season. 'I like where we're at,' Bello said of the rotation. 'I think we have a bunch of great pitchers. I think it creates a lot of competition, and I think that's where I thrive. So I'm happy about that.' As he enters 2025, Bello plans to continue leaning on his sinker and changeup while incorporating the four-seamer at the right times and to the right locations. Attacking the zone more aggressively is another area of growth. 'The thing with me is kind of the thing that I've been working on the last couple years, which is just controlling the hitters in the strike zone,' he said. 'I think I've gotten a lot better at it, but I think I still have some room to improve there.' Advertisement As he has every winter since he's been in the Red Sox organization, Bello worked out during the offseason with Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez in the Dominican Republic. They focused on working in the zone and remaining mentally strong on the mound. 'He's still a kid and he's learning,' Cora said. 'That's the most important thing and we know that and I think he did an amazing job in the second part of the season, reintroducing the four seamer, gave him some room to work against lefties, I think that helps him. Velocity was good and the action of his pitches was good.' Even with Buehler, Giolito and Crochet in the mix, Cora will still be pushing Bello. The right-hander might not be the Opening Day starter this year, a decision Cora has yet to make so early in camp. But the high expectations are still there. 'You still have to perform, it doesn't matter if you perform the first game of the season or the fifth one,' Cora said. 'You still have to perform, and that's what we expect.' For his part, Bello isn't backing down either. 'Even before the contract, whenever I'm on the mound, I feel like it's my responsibility to do the best that I can and help us win games,' he said. 'Me personally, and I know my teammates are the same way, we just want to do our best work to get to the playoffs and bring a World Series to Boston. That's a lot of what I think about.'
New York Times
30-01-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Is Rafael Devers on his way to becoming the last 10-season Red Sox player? Let's hope not
Is Rafael Devers on his way to becoming the last Red Sox player to log 10 or more seasons in Boston? Here's why it's worth posing the question: The Boston Red Sox have announced their top three prospects — outfielder Roman Anthony, infielder/outfielder Kristian Campbell and shortstop Marcelo Mayer — will be with the big-league club when spring training begins in a couple of weeks. Though it's always dangerous to pronounce can't-miss status on anybody, these three players offer a glimmer of hope the Red Sox are back in the competing-for-championships business, something management hasn't shown much interest in over the past three seasons. The Athletic's Keith Law this week posted his rankings of the top 100 prospects in baseball, and Anthony, who turns 21 in May, is at the head of the class. Campbell, who turns 23 in June, is No. 9. Mayer, who turned 22 last month, came in at No. 28 in Law's rankings. Who's excited to see Roman Anthony hit at Fenway? ✋ — MLB (@MLB) January 25, 2025 But even if all three emerge as stars, recent history tells us they will move on when they reach free agency. Or they will be traded as they are approaching free agency, and I'm guessing you already know where this is going. Yep: Mookie Betts. The Red Sox dealt Betts to the Los Angeles Dodgers during spring training in 2020, which was bad enough, but even worse was the one-step, two-step everybody in the organization did in an attempt to convince the masses that it was a pure baseball trade, that it had nothing to do with the boatloads of money that would be awaiting Betts when he signed his next contract. So off to L.A. went Betts, with the Red Sox receiving — drumroll, please — catcher Connor Wong, outfielder Alex Verdugo and infielder Jeter Downs. Advertisement Wong has turned out to be a serviceable big-league catcher, but Verdugo and Downs are no longer with the organization. Verdugo remains a free agent, this after one year with the New York Yankees, and Downs, who has had a couple of cups of coffee with the Red Sox and Washington Nationals, wound up playing in Japan last summer. Betts, who will wind up in the Hall of Fame, has already played on two World Series-winning teams with the Dodgers. GO DEEPER Top 100 MLB prospects 2025: Keith Law's rankings, with Roman Anthony at No. 1 Maybe Anthony, Campbell and Mayer will play so well so early in their careers that the Red Sox will lock them up with long-term deals. Anyway, that's what Red Sox CEO Sam Kennedy is selling. During an appearance on NESN as part of the team's recent 'Fenway Fest' fan event, Kennedy said, 'There's a plan for a lot of our guys internally to try and extend. That's something that is really important for great organizations. In our 24 years, there's been really important internal extensions that have led to World Series championships.' But Kennedy added this: 'It's something I think we missed on over the last five or six years if I'm being honest … when you think about Mookie and Xander (Bogaerts) and some of these guys you would have liked to have gotten long, long-term deals done with. It's not that we didn't try. It's just that we didn't get there.' Which brings us back to Devers, who made his major-league debut for the Red Sox on July 25, 2017, at Seattle's Safeco Field, lining out to center field off Seattle Mariners right-hander Félix Hernández in his first plate appearance. But if you want to know when the rookie third baseman truly arrived in the majors, as in making a great, big, loud statement that he intended to be around for a long, long time, just ask any Sox fan. It was the night Devers rocketed a 103 mph Aroldis Chapman fastball over the fence in left-center at Yankee Stadium, that's when. The exact date — Aug. 13, 2017 — is forgettable. But what Devers did that Sunday night in the Bronx is deliciously unforgettable. In just his 15th game since being promoted to the big leagues — after a nine-game dress rehearsal with Triple-A Pawtucket — the lefty-swinging 20-year-old socked a top-of-the-ninth, tying home run off baseball's hardest-throwing lefty. Advertisement Devers wound up hitting .284 in 58 games that season, with 10 home runs. In a Division Series showdown against the Houston Astros, which Boston lost in four games, Devers went 4-for-11 (.364) with two home runs, which is pretty good — especially since he didn't enjoy the benefit of having the pitch selections delivered to him via Trash Can-O-Gram, as Houston hitters did when they were in the batter's box. Free, daily sports updates direct to your inbox. Free, daily sports updates direct to your inbox. Now Devers has not turned out to be the second coming of Wade Boggs, who won five batting titles during his days as Boston's third baseman, but let's not play that game. The fact is Devers has been a solid hitter (if not much of a third baseman), which has mostly fulfilled the promise of that Sunday night in the Bronx. Two years ago, just before spring training began, the Red Sox signed Devers to a 10-year, 313.5 million contract extension that runs through 2033. The Red Sox held a fancy, all-the-fixings news conference on Jan. 11, 2023, to announce the extension. Chaim Bloom, who was chief baseball officer for the Red Sox at the time, put it this way: 'Rafael Devers isn't a star — he's our star.' If Devers remains with the Red Sox for the life of the deal, he'll have played 17 seasons in Boston. That wouldn't be as long as Carl Yastrzemski (23 seasons), Ted Williams (19) or Dwight Evans (19), but it would be longer than David Ortiz (14), Dustin Pedroia (14) or, since his name came up already, Boggs (11). But it'll only take two more seasons with the Red Sox for Devers to have played a decade in Boston. And I'll ask again: Will he be the last? Jarren Duran could be a candidate, as he's coming off a breakout season in which he stole 34 bases and led the AL in doubles (48) and triples (14). His WAR was 8.7. Yaz topped that only three times in his career. In the absence of any marketing skills or materials to make my case, I submit that no player sold more tickets at Fenway Park in 2024 than Duran. He's entering his fifth season with the Red Sox. He's 28. His wheels are his currency. But if he stays healthy, who knows, perhaps he'll follow Devers as a 10-year Red Sox veteran. Maybe it'll be Ceddanne Rafaela, who has logged two seasons with the Red Sox and is signed through 2031. GO DEEPER Bowden: 12 MLB breakout candidates I'm excited to scout in spring training Or maybe it'll be one of those three prospects — Anthony, Campbell or Mayer — who'll be in big-league camp in a couple of weeks. Look, I get it: Signing free agents and making trades are vital if you want to play baseball in October. Try to imagine the Red Sox winning those four World Series this century without Pedro Martinez, David Ortiz, Jason Varitek, Curt Schilling, Keith Foulke, Josh Beckett, Mike Lowell, J.D. Martinez and, oh, how we could go on and on. Advertisement But it's important to grow your own players. It's also important to keep the players you like. And the only way to do that is to pay them. That'll be the challenge facing the Red Sox over the next couple of years as Anthony, Campbell and Mayer settle in as big-league ballplayers.
