Boston Red Sox was forced to remove the right veteran, Lucas Giolito, only at a spring training due to Hamstring tightness.

Giolito threw 24 lands, including only 10 for strikes in the first half of Tuesday against Philadelphia Phillies. The pitcher also missed 2024, while recovering from Tommy John surgery, and Boston hoped to have a complete season from Giolito in their beginning rotation.

The termination could prove to be a minor, but it was a disappointing and sudden ending for a highly expected debut.

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Nick Pivetta #37 and Lucas Giolito #54 in Boston Red Sox talk to Pitching coach Andrew Bailey during a spring training team training on February 14, 2024, at Jetblue Park, at Fenway South, in …


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Boston signed Giolito at a two-year contract of $ 38.5 million in December 2023. He exercised his $ 19 million player option to return to the team in 2025. After a normal season, the hopes were high that Giolito could at least meet some of the potential that Red Sox saw in a year ago.

Giolito, 30, collected the American League Cy Young Award votes every season in 2019-21. During this period he went 29-21 with an era 3.47 (129 era+) in 72 begins for Chicago White Sox. 526 beats broke out in 427.2 halves.

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Despite his health, seasons 2022 and 2023 saw Giolito’s fight. He went 11-9 with an age of 4.90 (81 era+) in 30 starts for White Sox in 2022. In 2023, Giolito was 6-6 with a 31-year-old era, when Chicago traded at Los Angeles Angels before the commercial term.

Giolto went 1-5 with an era of 6.89 in six starters for angels, then was placed at the renunciation. He finished the season with the Cleveland guards and went 1-4 with an era 7.04.

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