When the Red Sox acquired Garrett Crochet last offseason from the Chicago White Sox they believed the talented left-hander could be the ace the club needed to lead their starting rotation into the future.

Crochet rewarded the club’s faith with a phenomenal debut season, and Wednesday he nearly took home one of baseball’s top honors.

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Crochet finished runner-up in the American League Cy Young Award vote, taking second behind Detroit’s Tarik Skubal, who won the award for the second straight year.

Skubal received 26 first-place votes and four second-place votes to earn 198 points, and Crochet received the other four first-place votes and 26 second-place votes to earn 132 points. Houston’s Hunter Brown finished a distant third with 80 points, New York’s Max Fried was fourth

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