Is Lucas Giolito the most important player on the 2025 Red Sox?

This is, in one sense, a silly question. On every baseball team, the most important player is the best player, duh. And on the Red Sox, that man is Garrett Crochet, who is the single biggest reason the Red Sox are now looking ahead to the postseason instead of playing out the string on another season of mediocrity.

But biology has hard-wired into human beings an unfortunate tendency to get used to things, which is to say, to take things for granted. Take a look around you at this very moment and you will find that the world is filled with amazing, wonderful things: a cup of coffee made from beans that were harvested on the slope of a volcano 3,000 miles away; electric cars that turn what used to be a day’s journey into a com

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