The numbers have been processed and the scores have been tallied. We have our top 25 Red Sox pitchers ready to be presented but, before we cycle through the best in team history, let’s see who just missed the cut. After all, these Boston legends were so close to making the rotation or the relief corps…

26. Curt Schilling
RHP, 2004-2008 - 53-29, 3.95 ERA, 574 SO, 9 SV, one All-Star selection
Sixteen years after being part of a mid-season deal that sent him to Baltimore for Mike Boddicker, Schilling returned in 2004 looking to “help break a 86-year-old curse” and did just that, giving his all in winning 21 games during the regular season, posting a 3.26 ERA and 203 strikeouts. He also posted nine saves in 2005 after coming off the disabled list to fill in for regular closer Keith Foulke. In his time here, he’s averaged 7.65 strikeouts against only 1.44 BB per nine innings pitched, placing him fourth and second all-time in franchise history and giving him a strikeout-to-walk ratio second only to Pedro Martinez.

27. Dick Radatz
RHP, 1962-1966 - 49-32, 2.65 ERA, 627 SO, 104 SV, two All-Star selections
He was “the Monster” before that name was given to the left-field wall at Fenway Park, throwing his arms up in triumph after finishing a game for the Sox. Between 1962 and 1965, he averaged 25 saves at a time that the statistic didn’t exist, and he often pitched two or three innings to earn it. He ranks first in hits allowed per nine innings pitched, second in strikeouts per nine innings pitcher, second in games finished, and ninth in WHIP (walks and hits per inning pitched)

28. Bruce Hurst
LHP, 1980-1988 - 88-73, 4.23 ERA, 1043 SO, one All-Star selection
He is arguably the best left-handed pitcher in recent years with Boston, a place where southpaws usually struggle. Between 1986 and 1988, he was a remarkable 33-9 at Fenway Park and, in team history, ranks second behind former Boston lefty Mel Parnell with 56 at the place the Red Sox call home. Hurst is one of only six pitchers to record at least 1000 strikeouts in a Boston uniform and also ranks seventh all-time in strikeouts per nine innings pitched.

29. Frank Sullivan
RHP, 1953-1960 - 90-80, 3.47 ERA, 72 CG, 821 SO, two-time All-Star selection
Sullivan was nothing short of a workhorse for the Red Sox during the 1950s. He twice won at least 15 games for the Sox, leading the league in wins with 18 and innings pitched with 260 in 1955 while posting a 2.91 ERA.

30. Roger Moret
RHP, 1970-1975 - 41-18, 3.43 ERA
The sidearm-throwing Moret twice led the American League in win percentage, going 13-2 and 1973 and 14-3 in 1975 for the Sox, though he started only about half of his appearances those seasons. In 1973, he started the season 11-0, including six straight starts at one point, which places him second only behind Roger Clemens for number of wins to start a season without a loss.

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