Kyle Harrison would be excused for thinking that Craig Breslow’s just not that into him. Since acquiring Harrison in the Rafael Devers trade, the Red Sox have handed starts to Hunter Dobbins, Richard Fitts, Cooper Criswell, Brennan Berardino (thrice!), Payton Tolle, and now Connelly Early, despite Harrison having a genuine prospect pedigree and more experience than all of them: Harrison’s made 34 career big league starts, compared to the 61 total starts made by that collective group, a number that includes at least 12 outings that were not true starts (damn you, bullpen games!) and is mostly accounted for by Criswell’s 21 career spot starts.

Harrison was a top-25 prospect in all of baseball last year! He’s thrown six or more innings in a start 10 times in his short career! It’s almost Pop

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