{"id":44388,"date":"2025-03-18T08:35:13","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44388"},"modified":"2025-03-18T08:35:13","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T08:35:13","slug":"breaking-tanner-houck-delivers-message-to-alex-cora-about-rotation-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44388","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Tanner Houck Delivers Message To Alex Cora About Rotation Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"post-2021067\"><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><!--?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ??--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-upper\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\">\n<h3 class=\"article-hero__subheading h6\">Houck had no issue taking a backseat<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-hero__copy-lower\">\n<div class=\"article-hero__default-inner\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Tanner_Houck.jpg\" alt=\"Tanner Houck Delivers Message To Alex Cora About Rotation Spot\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora easily could have looked to reward Tanner Houck for past performance.<\/p>\n<p>Houck\u2019s 2024 campaign, in which he spearheaded Boston\u2019s rotation, was named an American League All-Star and finished with a career-best 3.12 ERA in 30 starts, made him a candidate to accomplish something new: be the Opening Day starter for the Red Sox next week.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Cora went in a different direction, giving the honor not to a homegrown talent like Houck, but to prized offseason acquisition Garrett Crochet. The decision from Cora came with Houck\u2019s blessing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTalked to Tanner. He was our best starter last year. He was an All-Star,\u201d Cora told reporters over the weekend, per MassLive\u2019s Christopher Smith. \u201cHe just said, \u2018Give me the ball whenever.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Houck will take the mound for the second game of the season, and the 28-year-old right-hander had no issue being slotted in that spot, even after coming off a career year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200aI think my entire career I\u2019ve always been that way,\u201d Houck told reporters Monday from JetBlue Park, per Smith. \u201cJust give me the ball. That\u2019s all I want to do. This is what I love to do. I\u2019ve never worked a day in my life because I get to get to go out there and throw a ball for a living. I\u2019m not going to be picky by any means. Give me a ball every five days and I won\u2019t complain otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>Houck will make one more spring training start before the regular season commences. He\u2019ll look to build off his solid showing from Monday when he allowed two unearned runs, six hits and no walks while recording three strikeouts in 4 1\/3 innings against the Baltimore Orioles.<\/p>\n<p>Walker Buehler in all likelihood will get the ball after Houck and Richard Fitts\u2019 strong spring makes him a prime candidate for the fourth spot in the rotation with Brayan Bello, Lucas Giolito and Kutter Crawford all starting the season on the injured list. As for the final rotation spot, a surprise candidate might end up taking it.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tanner Houck made sure to deliver a message to manager Alex Cora with Cora putting the Red Sox rotation in place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BREAKING: Tanner Houck Delivers Message To Alex Cora About Rotation Spot - News 365<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/new365.azontree.com\/?p=44388\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BREAKING: Tanner Houck Delivers Message To Alex Cora About Rotation Spot - 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