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Porcello’s turnaround nets Comeback Award
- Updated: November 29, 2016
BOSTON — By following the toughest season of his career with his best, Red Sox right-hander Rick Porcello earned yet another accolade on Tuesday when he was named the American League’s Comeback Player of the Year Award winner.
Porcello emerged into a force in his second season in Boston, posting a 22-4 record and a 3.15 ERA.
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It was hard to imagine Porcello could have a season like that after going 9-15 with a 4.92 ERA in 2015.
But Porcello proved to be the classic case of a player who needed a year to adjust to playing in a new market with increased expectations.
“I think it was just me putting more pressure on myself, more than I needed to put on myself,” Porcello told MLB Network following the announcement. “The one thing the Red Sox had told me when they brought me over is they didn’t want me to do anything different. They wanted me to be me and do what I had done in my last season in Detroit and continue that trend. But there were definitely times where I started to struggle and started to put more pressure on myself and it took me out of my game plan every fifth day, and I got away from some of the basic things I had done in the two years prior to that.”
Anthony Rendon of the Nationals won the award in the National …
