{"id":91898,"date":"2024-12-11T23:30:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T04:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/?p=91898"},"modified":"2024-12-11T23:30:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T04:30:51","slug":"red-sox-eyeing-mariners-starting-pitcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/11\/red-sox-eyeing-mariners-starting-pitcher\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumor: Red Sox Eyeing Mariners Starter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to MLB Network&#8217;s Jon Morosi, the Boston Red Sox are targeting Seattle Mariners starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=castilu02,castilu01,castil027lui,castil020lui,castilu03,castil025lui,castil018lui&amp;search=Luis+Castillo&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Luis Castillo<\/a>. The Red Sox have already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/11\/red-sox-acquire-garrett-crochet-from-white-sox\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">acquired<\/a> ace pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/crochga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Garrett Crochet<\/a> from the Chicago White Sox. In 2024, Castillo sported an 11-12 record, a respectable ERA of 3.64, 175 strikeouts, and a WHIP of 1.169. The Mariners trading Castillo is becoming increasingly likely. <a  href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mikedeportes\/status\/1866969485917208644\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MLB insider Mike Rodriguez<\/a> stated that &#8220;it&#8217;s almost a certainty that he gets traded this offseason.&#8221; His go-to pitches are the fastball and slider. While 2024 isn&#8217;t an example of his strongest efforts due to a hamstring injury, Castillo remains an appealing trade target. The Dominican native owns the nickname &#8221;La Piedra,&#8221; which in Spanish means &#8221;The Rock.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Red Sox, even after the Crochet trade, are working to acquire one of the Mariners\u2019 starting pitchers, sources say. <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLBNetwork?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MLBNetwork<\/a> <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@MLB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jon Morosi (@jonmorosi) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonmorosi\/status\/1866970941223473275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Rumor: Red Sox Targeting Mariners Starter Luis Castillo<\/h2>\n<p>The Red Sox&#8217;s biggest offseason need was to pick up a quality starter, but that doesn&#8217;t mean they have to limit themselves to just one. Boston is one rumored landing spot for Castillo, and he has many other suitors, such as the Chicago Cubs, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, and the New York Mets. Seattle owes him $70 million over the next three years and he projects to get just over $70 million in terms of field value. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spotrac.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/21248\/luis-castillo\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spotrac<\/a>, Castillo will earn $22,750,000 in his base salary, while earning a total of $24.15 million in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballsavant.mlb.com\/savant-player\/luis-castillo-622491?stats=statcast-r-pitching-mlb\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baseball Savant<\/a> shows Castillo with solid rankings concerning his Pitching Run-Value (86th percentile), Fastball Run-Value (93rd percentile), and Breaking Run-Value (82nd percentile). Following the $218 million <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/2024\/12\/10\/max-fried-yankees-eight-year-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">signing<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/f\/friedma01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-12-11_br\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Max Fried<\/a> with the Yankees, the offseason and free agent market continues to heat up. Castillo&#8217;s remaining salary doesn&#8217;t compare with the remainder of the starting pitching market. Castillo would make a suitable starter for the Red Sox as he&#8217;s sported a 5.6 fWAR in his last 63 starts. Also, he hasn&#8217;t pitched fewer than 150 innings through an entire season. His fastball was dominant and impressive in 2024 and tied for sixth-best in MLB. Castillo&#8217;s contract is also cost-effective, making him an even more appealing acquisition for the Red Sox.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Photo Credit: \u00a9 Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to MLB Network&#8217;s Jon Morosi, the Boston Red Sox are targeting Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Luis Castillo. The Red Sox have already\u00a0acquired ace pitcher Garrett Crochet from the Chicago White Sox. In 2024, Castillo sported an 11-12 record, a respectable ERA of 3.64, 175 strikeouts, and a WHIP of 1.169. The Mariners trading Castillo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4831,"featured_media":91918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1071,17],"tags":[3614,922,218],"class_list":["post-91898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-redsox","category-mlb","category-mariners","tag-garrett-crochet","tag-luis-castillo","tag-max-fried"],"modified_by":"Lewis Masella, Site Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91920,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91898\/revisions\/91920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/baseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}