Way too early poll on how the season will end

[Northern Star]

Five games in is a robust sample size, so how will this season finish for the Sox?

[Jasonbay44]

5 games on the West Coast hasn't changed my opinion. This team will make the Playoffs and is a world series contender. The season has been weird as supposed strength, the SP, have sucked, while the "weakness", the bullpen, has been pretty good.

[Kimmi]

Back to back to back to back.

 

Followed by back to back.

[Northern Star]

Back to back to back to back.

 

Followed by back to back.

 

I like the way you think.

[mvp 78]

Last place unless you fix your sig.

[dgalehouse]

It would be very difficult to fail to make the playoffs. I don't see any way that could happen. Once there , anything is possible. The important thing is to win the division and avoid the wild card shootout . That will not be as easy as last year . I think we reach the playoffs for sure , but a repeat of last year is very iffy .

[notin]

It would be very difficult to fail to make the playoffs. I don't see any way that could happen. Once there , anything is possible. The important thing is to win the division and avoid the wild card shootout . That will not be as easy as last year . I think we reach the playoffs for sure , but a repeat of last year is very iffy .

 

 

Despite the Sox slow start against two teams that ramped up to start the season early, they’re still only one game behind the other AL East playoff “given”, who have been struggling against two of the consensus worst teams in the American League...

[SCM33]

As the thread title says......

 

Wayyyyyyyyy too early.

[dgalehouse]

Despite the Sox slow start against two teams that ramped up to start the season early, they’re still only one game behind the other AL East playoff “given”, who have been struggling against two of the consensus worst teams in the American League...

 

Yeah . The Yankees are injury riddled, underachieving and floundering.

[notin]

Yeah . The Yankees are injury riddled, underachieving and floundering.

 

 

But with the best bullpen in the Major Leagues...

[jacksonianmarch]

Yeah . The Yankees are injury riddled, underachieving and floundering.

 

While the A’s are expected to be good, the Mariners are not. So say whatever you want to make you feel better, but neither team has been good at the outset

[Bellhorn04]

Rays win division by 6-7 games.

 

Red Sox grab Wild Card spot.

 

Yankees miss everything.

 

(Silly answer for a silly question.)

[notin]

While the A’s are expected to be good, the Mariners are not. So say whatever you want to make you feel better, but neither team has been good at the outset

 

 

How did you expect the Tigers and Orioles to be?

 

The Mariners and A’s were the two teams that started the season early in Japan. As Cora made very little effort to get the Sox regulars going in ST, we might be looking at preparedness issues with the Sox. None of the Sox SP threw even 10 IP in ST. I think the price is being paid a little for that. There were positives to that approach. For example none of the Sox starters got injured in those games. But I can see it contributing to a slow start...

[kenmeister]

I fully expect the Sox to hit their stride mid-May and never look back.

[Thunder]

I've been saying for the last couple days, as soon as we go home, everything's going to change. Seeing those rings will light a fire. Nobody should ever have to start on an 11 game road trip, especially one that is entirely across the country. Think about this: Our last home game in Fort Myers was on 3/23. That's a whopping 17 days between "home games". Plus, you incorporate the preparedness issues that notin brought up, which I think are valid, and you have a recipe for disaster. But, it won't last. It never does. It's baseball.

[dgalehouse]

After much research , I have developed a system for projecting win totals . It is called the " Galehouseorean Theorem . " It is based on the premise that the team that scores the most runs wins the game . So , assuming the Sox out score their opponent in 97 games this season , the Galehouseorean Theorem projects them to win 97 games . The beauty of my system is that it doesn't matter how many runs they win by . Blowouts and nail biters all count the same as long as they out score the other team . You are welcome .

[Fan_since_Boggs]

The Red Sox have the best team in baseball and will win another W.S. this year. This is a minor bump in the road. Dombrowski and Cora are too great for this--expect the Red Sox to take off and never land until they win the W.S. again in October.

 

Based on what I see from the Yankees, I'm thinking the Rays and A's win the wild card this year. Brian Cashman had a hilariously bad offseason and it is carrying over into the Yankees regular season.

[Maxbialystock]

Last year the Sox went 17-2 out of the gate. This year it's 1-5 so far plus the worst run differential in MLB at -18. After the starters butchered their first round of starts, the lineup was shut out in back to back games.

 

The Sox won it all in 2013 and finished dead last the next year.

 

I think this Sox team is too good to miss the playoffs this year, but have my doubts about more than 95 wins. Of course, I also hope to come back to this thread in a week or a month from now and recant everything I just said. Oh, and I come by my doubts honestly: I was a Sox fan for 55 of the 86 years of the curse. There can be no question John Henry has been the best Sox owner ever, but old habits/doubts die hard.

[BillyWilliams]

The Red Sox have the best team in baseball and will win another W.S. this year. This is a minor bump in the road. Dombrowski and Cora are too great for this--expect the Red Sox to take off and never land until they win the W.S. again in October.

 

Based on what I see from the Yankees, I'm thinking the Rays and A's win the wild card this year. Brian Cashman had a hilariously bad offseason and it is carrying over into the Yankees regular season.

 

So based on what you have seen from a pretty much fully healthy red sox team that is 1-5 they are the best team in baseball and are a lock to win the WS.

 

But what you have seen from an injury ravaged Yankee team that is currently 2-3 they are a lock to miss the playoffs.

 

Got it, thanks for playing.

[Thunder]

After much research , I have developed a system for projecting win totals . It is called the " Galehouseorean Theorem . " It is based on the premise that the team that scores the most runs wins the game . So , assuming the Sox out score their opponent in 97 games this season , the Galehouseorean Theorem projects them to win 97 games . The beauty of my system is that it doesn't matter how many runs they win by . Blowouts and nail biters all count the same as long as they out score the other team . You are welcome .

 

Not gonna lie, I laughed pretty hard at this. At the end of the day, the key to victory is outscoring your opponent. Big facts.

[dgalehouse]

Not gonna lie, I laughed pretty hard at this. At the end of the day, the key to victory is outscoring your opponent. Big facts.

 

Thanks . I try to occasionally inject a little humor ( however lame ) into the intense seriousness of these vital and important discussions .

[fxkatt]

I would prefer to guess the number of wins, because it's hard to say what the rest of the AL will do... already the Yanks have a slew of key injuries, for example. I say the Sox win 92 games. Where that will put them, I have no idea.

[Maxbialystock]

So far the OP is borderline prescient. It's never too early to guess at the number of wins. Guess is an especially apt word because right now the Sox look fully capable of finishing dead last in the AL East. Given last year's stupendous season and the return of just about everyone important (except Kimbrel, whom I never liked because he was such a prima donna), that seems impossible.

 

Until you watch the Sox right now and especially yesterday. I mean, bring on the clowns, already.

[Northern Star]

As the thread title says......

 

Wayyyyyyyyy too early.

 

But it gets late early out there.