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The Greg Hill Show

Best Of Red Sox on WEEI: Connelly Early Wins 5th Starter Job & The Roman Anthony Hype Train

The Greg Hill Show

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Sports

2.6709 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2026

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

WEEI presents a roundup of the latest Red Sox talk from The Greg Hill Show, Jones & Keefe, and WEEI Afternoons. The crews break down the surprise inclusion of Connelly Early in the rotation and whether Garrett Crochet's spring struggles are a cause for concern. Plus, a deep dive into the massive hype surrounding Roman Anthony and the "realistic" bold predictions for the season. That and more on this week’s Best Of Red Sox on WEEI!

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0:00.0

3-2 is ripped high and deep into right field.

0:03.0

A bray he was back, he can only watch it fly.

0:06.0

That is a big time home for Larnik, and it ties the game at two.

0:10.0

Maybe one, too many curveballs he's working on.

0:14.0

Second time through Larnik looking for it, and he knots the game at two.

0:18.0

Hour two, Jones and Keith, W.E.I.

0:22.9

We can reset a couple of Red Sox items we touched on early in the show.

0:27.9

You can also weigh in on a few things we touched on throughout the first hour.

0:32.4

Adam Schaefter says there's no handshake agreement between the Patriots and the Eagles.

0:37.0

I believe them. On A.J. Brown. Not even close. Which makes me think just the opposite. I think there is a handshake agreement. I've never felt better about A.J. Brown as a member of the Patriots, we talked about Christian Gonzalez and his conversations with the Pats. We'll have more on that with Tommy Curran coming up at high noon on a Tommy Tuesday.

0:55.0

So stay tuned for that. We also mixing some thoughts on the Bruins. We were talking about James Higgins.

0:59.4

And right as we were talking about that, we found out Swamen is getting the start tonight against Toronto, which means that the corpse will go tomorrow against Buffalo.

1:08.3

Is that the right approach for the Bruins to secure themselves two points? Maybe. Is it the right way to get the most points? I don't think so. So we'll see if Marco Stern making the right call on this. Again, with all your phone calls, 617-779-7-9337. But right before the show started, we found out, according to Chris Cotillo, that Connolly early will be the Red Sox

1:29.0

quote unquote number three starter.

1:31.7

Johan Oviedo, who my guy, Breslo, traded for this offseason, is going to open in the

1:36.5

bullpen as kind of a long man, whether that is after Suarez in game two, which would be what,

1:43.8

Saturday? Red Sox open on Thursday. In Cincinnati,

1:47.3

they are off Friday and then game Saturday Sunday. So Suarez would be game two, whether that's

1:52.7

for early in game three or whether that's even for Bayo in game four in Houston. Ovi-Aida

1:58.9

will be kind of a long option in the bullpen and then after a few starts, the Red Sox will reassess. So I don't think we're totally out of the woodwork on the Red Sox manipulating and screwing with his service time, but sitting here today, evaluating it at face value, it was a good sign when Early made the team yesterday while Tolley was going to Worcester. We'll probably see him Friday in Worcesterke. I hope so. I would love to talk to. When were there at the Woo Sox opener? That's top of our list on who we want to talk to if you're listening down there, Woo Sox. So I think it was a good sign early made the team. And I applaud them for letting him break camp with the club, letting him break camp in the rotation. He won the job. He was the best guy. Way outpitched Oviato. In fact, to your point, he outpitched any other starter. He was their best starter. Peyton Tolley was probably their second best starter. Maybe. But their best guy was Connolly early. And if you thought four spots were locked, which is fair, I think based on track record at the major league level, that's fine. And contracts and contracts like that's fine. And those guys, you know, I don't care that. I mean, we'll see. We'll see them on Thursday. Like, I don't really care that crochet had a bad spring. We'll watch it. But like, obviously he was in there as were the other guys. So there was a, there was a competition.

3:09.7

And this time there really was.

3:26.8

Like last year, I still don't know why. I mean, I guess we know why. But Marcel Meyer, Roman Anthony didn't start with the club. Were they not ready? In the case of Meyer, I mean, there was a job opening. With Anthony, you're like, well, maybe the outfields kind of jammed up right now, and eventually you'll get the call up.

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