Boston Red Sox Projection:
79.3 wins | 21.3% playoffs | 0.6% title
Hot stove: Gained 1.3 wins | 13th
All-in: 87.3 wins (55.7% playoffs)
When the Red Sox began spring training this week, first-time GM Craig Breslow struck a bit of a defeatist tone when talking about the offseason. Which is, we remind you, not really over. Here’s a thought: Go out and sign the players you need, especially the pitchers. This isn’t a knock on Breslow, who is almost certainly operating under the parameters he was given by team ownership.
However: You’re the Boston Red Sox. You need impact starting pitchers. Two of them are just sitting out there. After three last-place finishes in four years, you’d think there would be a little more urgency from one of baseball’s economic juggernauts.