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Chapter 1: What insights does Garrett Crochet share about his first season in Boston?
Yeah, there should be some passion. This doesn't have to be boring.
You don't get bored by baseball. Okay, one thing the game needs is more people like you.
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Chapter 2: How does Garrett feel about the pressure of being a pitcher in the MLB?
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than Garrett Crochet. First time I said that to you, 2026, to whatever, whatever this year is. So it hits the same though. You know, I was going through my photos, looking for some photo. I'm like, oh, there's Garrett Crochet wearing a black and white baseballs and boring t-shirt. in the visitors dugout at Fenway park, which you proceeded to wear like in BP all that day, right?
Yeah. I probably got some flack from Nike for it. You did. Oh yeah. I don't know, but I know, I know we're not allowed to like wear the license stuff. I was just repping the brand though.
You were ahead of your time. Yeah. I knew right then that you would be doing multiple podcasts with us. So, uh, but I always appreciate when talking to you. I really do. And, um, It's a good time. So, like, cliche question. Well, first of all, you're very excited about the hats, right?
Yeah, yeah. I've heard that they're swaggier this year.
Well, the hat that I showed you has a name. It's like a name, like a definitive name, which you're going to be asking. It's called the Joe.
I like that.
You know the hat, right, I showed you? Yeah, the backward Bs. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the Joe.
You got to do the Upside Down logo. That's all the rage right now.
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Chapter 3: What was Garrett's experience with the team's dynamics and culture?
Well, so question. As you saw, I was sitting here with Christian Campbell last year and talking to him in obviously a completely different situation, but I love what life was like a year ago. A year ago, what life was like. I think we were talking the other day about you blowing 100 and the live VPs. I was like, hey, everybody, I'm good. But how different does it feel than a year ago?
Yeah.
Last year, I was talking to someone about this. Last year, you could argue I had a spot on the team, but I still felt like I was trying to make it. This is the first year where, okay, I've got a spot on the team. I don't have to fight tooth and nail to make the team, but I'm still trying to get myself in that mindset and that mode so that I can get going early.
But, you know, coming off the biggest workload of my life, it's definitely a different stance on the subject. And just, you know, trying to get going up to game speed as quick as possible. I think I've got one more live until then. So still some time.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, but it's weird. It's funny you say that about make whatever, making the team. But there's so many different aspects to last spring training for you. It was being new, learning names, making the team. But also, it was just, it was...
executing the plan that you had from the year before, which we talked a lot about, about how, you know, you guys have implemented like the second half of 2024. Right. And then, okay, we think this is going to work. I don't know if you know it worked.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
It worked. It worked. It worked. But you know, but you going in and you're like, okay, I think it'll work. Right.
Right. Right. I mean, every year it's a little bit of the, every year you kind of got to reinvent yourself to some extent. Um, or at least I feel like you do. Um, Looking across the league, it's like guys pretty much remain true to their strengths, but the way that you get there might be a little bit different.
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Chapter 4: How did Garrett adjust his pitching strategy during the season?
And, you know, whether that's increased usage of the sinker or different pitches for first pitch strikes as opposed to, you know, just continuing to attack with the four. But that's always going to be a strength of mine is getting down people's throats with the four seam. But I feel like the longer that you're in this game, the tendencies become a little bit more clear and there's less...
I don't know, ambiguity to what you're trying to do on the mound.
So what did you notice? Teams, like, listen, you have good shit. Yeah. You have good shit, but, like, still teams are going to adjust. Did they adjust? Did you notice anything?
Later, I mean, definitely aggression early in the game. I feel like once we started to, you know, add the sinker in a little bit more versus right, I did it a little bit the first month of the season. I was still trying to figure out the right counts and, you know,
I feel like there were times where I used it poorly and it kind of eliminated it off the table versus right for, I don't know, two or three months. It was very sparing, not, not altogether, but it was very sparing compared to how it began. And the second half of the year, I felt like we brought it back and we're using it appropriately.
It's, you know, as people talk about sinkers not being a whiff pitch, I think that as pitchers, we like to think that everything can be a whiff pitch if thrown in the right opportune moment. Um, But it was a way to kind of combat what I was just saying about guys being aggressive to the four early in counts. It's just going to lead to either a swing and a miss or just miss and barrel.
But oftentimes, I feel like it's just a take. There's a wrinkle in it. Even though you're reading fastball out of hand, there's still a wrinkle there.
When you went through last year, and that was an excellent breakdown of adjusting, but when you went through last year, did you feel like, was it what you thought it would be? Like, again, best laid plans, right? And was there any time in the course of the year where you're like, okay...
i i'm gonna have to power through this or there's a long way to go you know any any time where you're like okay we have to adjust or i have any doubt or and you can you can say that now right i did it right um i feel like you just look at every start as its own thing it's
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Chapter 5: What challenges did Garrett face with team expectations and performance?
And by the way, in both cases, you dealt on your last time you faced them, right?
My last Yankees one. It was a playoff. Well, yeah, yeah. Last regular season wasn't as good.
I know, but I don't know if you know this.
Yeah, well, then I faced them five times then, if you count that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, I feel like the more that... The same could be said for both sides. I mean, the hitters, they get to see your stuff more. But yeah, I get to kind of get to the same angle a little bit differently each time. You know, you start to have a feel for aggression as well. So it's...
It could work either way, I suppose. Yeah, my last Blue Jays one was good, but my first one was not. I think I went like 5.2, one earned, but I came out with the bases loaded, and I think that they might have gotten cash, and I was grinding for that.
Well, that's what they did.
Yeah, yeah, no swing and miss. I don't remember what the question was. I got sidetracked.
No, no, no. It was just like the evolution of you. I mean, it's like, it's because I look at it and again, best laid plans and you just say, and it's okay if you got to a point in the year, like we had talked about that Met start, right? Right. And okay. They're worried, maybe I'm putting words in their mouth or thoughts in your head.
They're taking me out because they're worried about me getting through a season and they're being precautious. I'm thinking, why? Yeah, yeah. Right? And then you're probably thinking, why are they worried?
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Chapter 6: How does Garrett view the evolution of his role in the team?
Right, right. So you know, but it's still like, why?
Yeah, in the moment, I'm kind of just like, what's the big deal? You know?
Yeah.
Like, this is why you traded for me. Like, you know? But it all worked out.
Thank God you didn't pitch that in. Yeah, yeah. Science. I do want to come back to, like, the spring training. And I'll reference the conversation I had with Christian again. Yeah. Because we didn't know all the shit that he was going through. Like, we didn't know that he was going home and talking about contract extensions.
Yeah, yeah.
And stuff like that. So, and for you, like, we knew that this was, as soon as you got traded, this was going to be a topic. Right. Yeah. For you looking back at it, because you didn't go, you signed what, like, first game of the year? Right, right. The day before. Like two days after or something. The day before you ran away from me or something. Forget how that happened.
But going through, like, at this point, 365 days ago, was it like, what do you remember about that?
About going through those kind of conversations? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Chapter 7: What does Garrett think about the differences between playing in Chicago and Boston?
To clear the air, I felt like it was pretty open across the league. I was open to an extension, and wherever I was being traded, I assumed going into it that those talks would be had. It was expected. And then coming into camp, trying to make the opening day...
roster but really trying to be the opening they started was like my goal at the time there was really no pressure there in terms of uh you know worrying about the numbers that were being talked about because it was like if you guys are trying to uh sort out an extension then there's some value that i'm bringing to the team like yeah you were pretty confident i felt comfortable i felt confident yeah but
I always reference this Mookie told me. This isn't apples to apples, but he said the first one was always the hardest to one to turn down. Right? The first. When they start talking extensions. Again, different situation. But still... Like to have more money that you know, right? Right, right. And so was that the case? Or did you trust the process?
No, yeah. I felt like I trusted the process. I felt like, you know, there was good dialogue between, you know, not only us in the front office. When I say us, I mean my representation in the front office. But between my representation and me. So I felt like going into it, I knew what my value was. And I knew what it would be on the free agent market. And I knew kind of...
You know, doing it on a contract extension when you're limited to talking to one team only, you know, how that kind of evens itself out. And so I kind of knew what to expect. I had goals of where I'd hoped to end up. And, you know, we got there.
You must be happy inside the contract, right? But happy that you don't have to worry about it.
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Chapter 8: How does Garrett explain the significance of his shaved head?
I mean, I don't know. I don't know what that life is like, but we tie like school ball or whatever of seeing, it's a lot of chaos.
Right, it is, it is. And the way that it works... without even getting too far into it. It's tough. You mean you just run back-to-back Cy Youngs and you still have a platform here? It's like, man.
Yeah.
But that's our system.
Yeah. But you must have been pretty happy to not have to go through this system. Oh, 100%.
Especially how it looks these days. ranger for instance like it took him a while to sign uh framber it took him a while to sign you know the lower term high aav tends to be the way that teams are going um as opposed to like the total lumps on long-term deals um but like a guy like frambers i'd
I don't know his stats off the top of my head, but he seemingly throws 200 innings every year and he's done it for the past six. And it took him until January to sign. It's like, man, that's kind of a nightmare. I just had my first season of starting last year. Yeah. Or two years ago at this point.
I mean, you've seen teammates go through contract years before.
Right.
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