New York – Hunter Dobbins was not one of the young people Red sox The pitchers competing for a list of the opening day during the last days of the spring training.
Boston chose it in the minor league camp 16 days before the opening of the regular season.
But 66 games in the 2025 season, Dobbins has launched the fourth most entry (44 ⅓) between the pitchers of Red Sox. Its tenth departure and the eighth start will arrive today the Sunday night baseball against the Yankees here in the Yankee Stadium.
This start, opposed to Ace Carlos Rodón (8-3. 2.49 It was)-it will be special for him.
“Growing up with my father is a fan of Red Sox, this has always been one of the outputs I have sought in my calendar,” said Dobbins on Friday. “I have been looking forward to it for some time. And to start with a Red Sox uniform, it will be special.”
Dobbins’ father, Lance Dobbins, launched Arizona Diamondbacks organization and played Indy Ball. He was a close friend of the former director of Red Sox Grady Little. Lance and Grady met well when the little younger brother Tom Little, now Ballengee agent, coached Lance at Summer Ball.
“He has been a fan of Red Sox since he was a kid,” Dobbins said about his father. “He said they were the ones who were always on television. So he was the one who saw and fell in love.”
Dobbins never had a favorite team growing in Texas.
“I saw the astros, I saw the Rangers, but I knew I wanted to do it as a race,” he said.
Dobbins made his MLB debut on April 6 when the Red Sox needed a headline for the second game of a header against the cardinals. At that time, Dobbins said, “I knew I would have a shot this year if I had only stuck me to business as usual, I did my thing. I didn’t know it would be so fast.”
But the Dobbins no longer feel that things are going faster than expected.
“It’s not really,” Dobbins said. “I was told when I was put on the 40 men to protect myself from the rule 5 that they expected to bring this year. I feel like the adjustments I made and the adjustments I did in the low season type of putting myself in position.”
Garrett crochet, Walker Buhler and Bayan Bello They are the three Red Sox pitchers that have launched the most inputs than the right.
Dobbins was behind Richard Fitts, Quinn Priester and Cooper Criswell To the graph of initial launch of spring formation. Boston traded Priester to Brewers on April 7. Fitts started the season in rotation, but wasted time at the Il with a pillaal strain and chose Worcester earlier this week. Criswell made the opening day, but has spent most of this season with Woosox.
“Obviously, there have been movements, there were injuries that pushed me here out of need, but only doing what I can,” said Dobbins.
Dobbins said that putting in weight was the most important thing he made this past season.
“I know you hold me for 162 more (games) that could not be at 180, 200 pounds, so now I reached 210,” he said. “It became stronger and finally I started throwing a little more. I’m not a big type of Plyo ball, but I found ways to add -a little veil and put myself in the right place.”
The Dobbins are in the 74th percentile among the main jumps of the average speed of fast ball (95.6 mph).
“The rhythm is good. He understands his things,” said manager Alex Cora. “Obviously (still working) to overcome it in this third time through a program, even for the second time through the line of use and how we will. But so far it has been good.”