http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/21/reevaluating-the-red-sox-lineup/ Bringing BP-quality analysis to Boston Mon, 20 Aug 2018 04:19:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2016/01/21/reevaluating-the-red-sox-lineup/#comment-5526 Sat, 23 Jan 2016 07:36:58 +0000 http://boston.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=3385#comment-5526 You are certainly correct that the efforts to repair last years pitching woes have been successful. It is also true that half the team’s offense could fail again. But it is just as likely to succeed. We all saw what “the kids” did in August-Sept when they were finally given the reins. Swihart kept improving. Shaw showed he could hit. Bogaerts won a Silver Slugger despite not yet reaching his power potential. Betts was equally awesome. Rusney completed a streaky rookie year with a very SSS of AB’s, wbich we all should have anticipated based on rust, family and acclimation issues. JBJ showed his ceiling to be higher than his rush job in 2013 indicated. There are equally good reasons to believe these question marks are just as likely to be exclamation points.
And if Papi, Hanley, Panda, Pedroia and Young only deliver 75% of their traditional offensive output, what team wouldn’t want that? And wouldn’t that, as a group, be a worst case scenario. This whole team is not about to fall of a cliff together, which means most questions are already answered; and those that are not will be answered in ST or by July 31. Dave is the answerman.

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