He’s Lucas Frost Giolito — The Italian Stallion! The Stracciatella Slinger! The Calabrian Chile Chief! — and he, somehow, comes to the Red Sox after spending 2023 with the Chicago White Sox, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, and the Cleveland Guardians.
Before he became the lost wandering soul of the American League, he was a highly pedigreed ace who grew up in Hollywood. I don’t mean Hollywood as in “the greater LA area” either, I mean that both his mother and maternal grandfather are successful character actors (his grandpa played Susan Ross’s dad on Seinfeld!