Payton Tolle

Obviously, that went terribly, but he looked healthy in the end.

So you can pencil in Crochet to be the opening day guy in 2027.

Peyton Tolley with an amazing rookie season.

Jake Bennett was also solid in his rookie season as well.

Ranger Suarez, he's under contract.

Now, at the trade deadline, there were reports that the Red Sox had called the Reds about a potential trade for Ellie, and supposedly they were asking for almost the entire team, right? Roman, Anthony, Peyton, Tully, Franklin, Orris, the list goes on.

Off-season now, maybe you can come back down to earth a little bit and try to meet in the middle somewhere a little bit more, but I think at the very least, you're going to have to part with Franklin Arias.

Now, would the Red Sox also part with Peyton Tolley? No, I don't think they're going to be doing that.

didn't see it

might have been the penguins with crosby i i forget but it makes sense um But yeah, he was like, I watched more Stanley Cup finals than World Series growing up.

I also saw Rob was with Peyton Tolley, who was like a guest reporter or something at the World Series, which I feel like went out hopefully years and years down the line.

But when his playing career is over, like he is going to be in media, TV or something like that.

He has the personality for it.

and can contribute.

But until you see him out on the field, expectations have to be zero, even though he was rehabbing, you know, towards the end of the season.

Before we shift the bullpen, kind of two pitchers from the locks group that I wanted to... to reference here, Peyton Tolley, I'll start with you, Keaton.

Do you think that he's an extension candidate? They did so many of those extensions years ago that we saw whether it was with Raffaella, they extended crochet shortly after the trade, Roman Anthony, Do you think that Peyton Tolley would be a potential extension candidate for them with, you know, what, five years before free agency? Would they try to guarantee him some money? Is that something that you think he might take as a pitcher who, you know, you never know what season you go into and your arm can blow out?

Yeah, I think that is the reason why the Red Sox wouldn't.

You mentioned all those extensions.

Jake Bennett, between majors and minors, combined through 152 innings this year.

And that was by far a career high compared to what he had thrown in the minors.

I think there's some excitement with the, with the two young pitchers on each end.

Uh, Mr. Tolle and Mr. Sheffler.

Uh, they are going to bring the added dimension, I believe- But, uh, I think it's developing in the new group, where ours was embedded.

You know-

I don't think we need to waste any time talking about that.

Big jumpers, Tolle and Jared Jones, I guess, makes sense.

Healthy, showed good skills, have a role.

Yeah.

Right.

Maybe, maybe you're like, "Oh, maybe I will think about going somewhere el-" Like, it, it's not just the free agent part, it's the guys you have in your organiza- If you're Peyton Tolle or Jake Bennett, young pitchers, and you're like, "Wow, the Red Sox developed us.

Here we are, we're MLB players, but man, if I have an issue with my arm, is it gonna be like Garrett and all of a sudden I'm out for months at a time-

Right

I, yeah, I mean, that's totally fair.

I think the way that we've seen this go, I mean, I'm looking at our top, 20, or 30 right now.

I'm seeing Chase Burns, Drew Rasmussen, Peyton Tolley, Jacob Mizorowski, Cam Schlittler, all Easily outside of the top 15 starting pitchers of everyone universally.

I mean, I had Cam at 20, but those are all that pushed forward into that top 10.

And some that were obviously further back.

I mean, I can...

All right, let me just send some to you right now.

Logan Henderson, Parker Messick, Peyton Tolley, Braxton Ashcroft.

Um, and I think my favorite thing about watching sports is the human element of it in the fact that, you know, you, you get to know these guys.

You get to know which guys are clutch, which guys are not, which guys struggle in the moment, which guys kind of rise to the occasion.

Um, and the most disturbing thing about those pitchers being pulled, about Peyton Tolley being pulled when he was and Sonny Gray being pulled where he was, is just that it seemed to ignore completely the human element and the edge that those guys had and how they looked and the compete level that each of those guys have.

And then I think the only two runs that were scored in the entire series were solo shots by two guys that I'm completely unsurprised rose to the moment in Contreras and Sogard, two of the guys who have played with an edge here, um, the entire season, and really just, like, have that, that it factor.

Um, it was just, like, really g- kind of, like, made me think, why not just run a frigging computer simulation, uh, instead of actually playing these games? 'Cause that's the level of care that they were given.