2025 In a Discarded-On-The-Dugout-Floor Nutshell

After missing all of 2024 and the start of 2025, Lucas Giolito quietly put up an All-Star worthy season this year, posting the 20th-best ERA+ in baseball. But he probably won’t be back in 2026, and that’s probably just fine.

The Good

On June 2, 2025, Lucas Giolito lasted just 1.2 innings against one of the worst teams in baseball, giving up eight hits and seven earned runs at home against the Angels. It had been a rough start to the season up to that point. After a strangely truncated spring training in which the Red Sox slow-walked Giolito’s throwing program despite Giolito publicly dismissing concerns about a minor hamstring strain and insisting he was healthy and ready to pitch, Giolito had given up six or more earned runs in three of

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