You cant use that as an excuse.
Total cap out.
The 2-10 start has nothing to do with it. That was then. And it specially doesn't matter when the Red Sox came back and were leading by like 3 games so that excuse gets thrown out immediately.
They are where they are now because they loss to s***** teams like the Pirates, Royals and Oakland, Astros and so on.
The lead would be intact had the Red Sox won games they were supposed to win. But they didn't.