Red Sox Ranked Among Top Pitching Staffs To Start 2026 Season
MLB.com positioned the Boston Red Sox among the game's best pitching units before Opening Day.
Red Sox Ranked Among Top Pitching Staffs To Start 2026 Season originally appeared on NESN . Add NESN as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Pitching could be paramount to the Boston Red Sox returning to the playoffs in 2026.
Even after sporting MLB's fifth-lowest team ERA (3. 72) last year, the Red Sox devoted resources to bolstering their pitching. Boston signed Ranger Suarez and swung trades for Sonny Gray and Johan Oviedo to join a rotation led by Garrett Crochet.
Aroldis Chapman and Garrett Whitlock also return to lead a stout bullpen that led the American League in WAR. Those veterans give Boston high hopes for its run-prevention efforts. MLB.
com's Anthony Castrovince ranked the Red Sox as MLB's fourth-best pitching staff to start the season. They trail the Los Angeles Dodgers, Seattle Mariners and Philadelphia Phillies. "There are questions about what the Red Sox came out with on the offensive end this offseason, but they were adamant about improving their pitching beyond AL Cy Young Award runner-up Crochet and appear to have done so," Castrovince wrote.