Garrett Crochet is the clear top pitcher and the primary reason the Red Sox are positioned for the postseason rather than sliding into mediocrity. Human beings tend to acclimate to exceptional things and begin taking them for granted, even remarkable everyday achievements like distant coffee, electric cars, and pristine skies. That same complacency risks underappreciating Crochet's dominance. Attention therefore shifts to the second game of a playoff series and whether the team has a reliable number-two starter. The number-two role became a concern after Tanner Houck's injury following a disastrous start to the season.
Take a look around you at this very moment and you will find that the world is filled with amazing, wonderful things: a cup of coffee made from beans that were harvested on the slope of a volcano 3,000 miles away; electric cars that turn what used to be a day's journey into a comfortable 45-minute drive; a piercing blue sky that looks like Ming dynasty porcelain.
And yet, that first sip of coffee you took today probably just felt like a routine part of your morning instead of a human miracle of agricultural genius and global shipping logistics. You probably got annoyed at the traffic. You might not have even bothered to look up at the sky after you checked your weather app. You got used to the miracles around you.
Red Sox fans haven't quite gotten used to Garrett Crochet yet. Not since Pedro have we had the pleasure of witnessing such dominance every five days and there's a giddy buzz throughout the the fanbase every time he takes the mound. But when forecasting the postseason ahead, we've already started to take him for granted. Crochet, we know, will do his job in the opening game of the hypothetical postseason series that awaits us.
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