10:18AM: The Red Sox have officially announced Dobbins’ call-up. Manager Alex Cora indicated to reporters (including MassLive.com’s Christopher Smith) that Dobbins might be the starter in the second game of the doubleheader.
7:49AM: The Red Sox will be calling up right-hander Hunter Dobbins from Triple-A Worcester, according to Chris Henrique of the Boston Sports Journal. Dobbins will be Boston’s 27th man for its doubleheader with the Cardinals today, and since he was already added to the 40-man roster last November, no corresponding transactions are required.
If Dobbins gets some action in either of the two games, it will mark the 25-year-old’s Major League debut. The Red Sox selected Dobbins in the eighth round of the 2021 draft, even though he had undergone a Tommy John surgery that year while pitching for Texas Tech. The surgery rehab delayed Dobbins’ pro debut until 2022, but the results have been solid since the righty has gotten back onto the mound.
Over 311 career innings in the minors, Dobbins has a 3.88 ERA, 23.8% strikeout rate, and 7.94% walk rate. Only 24 1/3 of those innings have come at the Triple-A level, and he was expected to get more seasoning in Worcester as the 2025 season develops. Dobbins has started 61 of his 63 career games, though he’ll likely work out of the pen today as a fresh arm for the Sox to utilize over the twin bill.
Baseball America ranks Dobbins as the 11th-best prospect in Boston’s farm system, and MLB Pipeline isn’t far behind with a #13 ranking. Dobbins’ five-pitch arsenal includes a fastball that can touch 98mph and a splinker that he started using last season — as BA’s scouting report puts it, “he doesn’t have a single killer pitch to generate a ton of whiffs, but he steers clear of barrels.” Dobbins allowed only two homers over his 125 2/3 combined innings of Double-A and Triple-A ball in 2024, though he has already surpassed that total in his lone Triple-A appearance this year, as he was tagged for three homers and five earned runs in a 3 2/3-inning relief outing on April 1.
Welcome to The Show, Hunter. Hope you enjoy your stay!
I’m reading that he doesn’t have one amazing pitch, but his mix keeps hitters from making solid contact. Best of luck if he gets in a game.
Old York;
Who is your favorite player of all time and why?
@choof
How is this relevant to the article? If I want to be relevant to the article, then this guy is my favorite.
I was just trying to be friendly. I guess Hunter Dobbins is your favorite player then that explains all I need to know
York you don’t need to use AI. This was a great an informative comment. I know you informed me something about Dobbins. Have a good day.
@Tigers3232
Honestly, all these false allegations about me using AI are really adding no value to your posts. Once you’re ready to discuss the topic at hand and have a proper discussion, I’ll keep the discussion going with you but if you insist on the false allegations, I see no value in engaging with you.
Let me know when you’re ready.
When the allegations are obviously not false people will continue to point them out
@choof
Enjoy!
@queef. When you make multiple accounts to make false allegations your obviously bored, and need to find a new hobby.
Only one account bud, your reign of stupidity continues
@choof. You copy and paste comments about a football slider. You need A.I. so you can write something funny.
Now you’re just throwing out buzzwords in an attempt to save face. Nothing about my comments scream copy paste or AI. You wish you could be as clever but instead you spend your day breaking others down
Well York I attempted to be kind. I can’t say I did not try.
@choof. I’m not attempting to save face. Just calling you out for being a antagonist not talking about the article, and being a gaslighting troll that plays the victim. You might not be the same person, but you both respond within 5 minutes, and can’t read.
Who’s the other person you’re referring to bc I can’t tell. Says enough about your typing skills
Also I simply asked old York who his favorite player was. If that’s antagonizing you must’ve had a traumatic childhood
@choof. That wasn’t all. You could scroll up, and find out. i can’t help with the reading comprehension part. I’m not going to repeat myself.
@choof
I told you my favorite player.
Thank God
Spare us all from your worthless muttering
Mutter mutter
“just trying to be friendly” Ok.
What’s a splinker
Sweet- Split Sinker.
Wish they’d go back to calling a Slider Cutter a Slutter, I liked that one.
the Slutter! Hahaha yes we definitely need to hear the announcers calling his pitches the slutter! TV gold lol
Using the slutter will get you thrown out at home unfortunately.
Very good!! Slutter
FWIW, it’s also Skenes’ go-to pitch.
Link is to a different Hunter Dobbins.
Yup. This isn’t like Jose Cruz or John Smith. You have to go to a little trouble to pick the wrong Hunter Dobbins.
They picked a Hunter Dobbins who isn’t even in pro ball.
“seasoning”: add a quality or feature to (something), especially so as to make it more lively or exciting.
I don’t know why sportswriters think it’s a synonym for “experience” but it’s a little odd to equate a human’s development in their chosen field with adding pepper to a stew.
They use “seasoning” in its figurative sense, which is completely appropriate. Etymologically, it’s been used this way since the 1540s.
“Figurative use by 1510s. Of timber, etc., “bring to maturity by prolonged exposure to some condition,” by 1540s; hence in extended sense “bring to the best condition or use; of persons “fit to any use by time or habit,” c. 1600. In 16c., it also meant “to copulate with.” Intransitive sense of “become mature, grow fit for use” is by 1670s.”
What the hell????
Well now I’m curious whether the “seasoning” done to stew is etymologically distinct from the “seasoning” done to wood, and if either or both is related to the passage of the “seasons” of the year.
My dictionary is in my office so I’ll look it up tomorrow.
Actually, it looks like both come from a single romance root related to allowing fruit to ripen. My quick read is that both senses entered English around 1300, but via slightly different routes. Old French had evolved two similar words from the Latin root, one for each sense, and they re-merged in middle English as “seasoning.”
The next cult hero, the Brock Holt of pitching.
Maybe.
Hayzee – Thought that was Cam Booser?
“he steers clear of barrels“
@whyhayzee
What about torpedoes?
U Boats? They used torpedoes.
York – Where I come from guys gravitate TO torpedoes;O)
I’m probably late to the party, but I wonder why Richard Fitts was bumped from starting altogether. He was scheduled for Saturday yet gets neither of today’s doubleheader starts?
Replying to myself here and thinking out loud. I wonder if they worried about him warming up Saturday and just had him continue to throw an extended side session?
So in that case he’s Not able to start the next day Sunday today, and he’ll take the next turn? That’s a possibility?
Someone might say that they’re not skipping him in any way because he’s not part of the rotation. He’s a fill-in guy. But to that I would say why call up Hunter Dobbins to fill in?
Good question.
Didn’t they announce he’s starting tomorrow’s game?
Starting Monday.
WRONG like to the wrong Hunter Dobbins. This website is so inaccurate!
I’m your Huckleberry!
Link
Hunter Dobbins sounds like a name for a Hobit. Good luck in your debut!
Looks a bit like Vasky
Totally unrelated, but listening to game one of today’s doubleheader Will Fleming pronounces “Newcomb” as “Nuke ‘em,” and it’s driving me nuts.
Perhaps tonight’s game is what Breslow had in mind when he signed Bregman and cajoled Devers into DHing – 8 hits 9 RBIs and 6 runs scored between them.
I don’t think you have to go back very far to find posts, from maybe even as recently as yesterday, about how bad they are
That Devers lack of hitting was due to him pouting, and nothing to do with him mostly missing ST.
Seriously, I haven’t seen every play this year, but there are at least two plays that Bregman made that I think Devers had no shot at, and at least two DPs that were turned that I don’t think Devers would’ve made.
Isn’t this the guy with all the self help books and on at 3am 🕒infomercials??
he pitched a good game and got the W
Huge moment for the kid. As someone else mentioned, I thought the start was going to Fitts, and that Dobbins would be relegated to a corner of the BP. I always imagine someone’s parents sitting at home watching like this was the greatest moment in their lives.