Old Red

When the Red Sox have had their best teams they have had a good, dedicated power bat at DH. JD, and Papi come to mind. Theses are far cries from someone like that.

Yes, but Alonso could have been there from day 1. Rustman was better than what they had, and who knows what Mead would have done, or will do in Boston. Either way just being better than what they had doesn’t mean they would have made that big of a difference. AR’s been dipping for two years now, and injuries probably haven’t helped.

Yes all you say is true, but not getting another big bat to go alongside Con Man was something that could have been done. Not getting Bregman, or Alonso when both were available was huge. No I didn’t want Bregman for 5 more years either, but one year at a time, and that one year was this past year.

Yaz, Reggie Smith, and Tony C was a pretty good outfield too.

True, but how many of these guys should have been counted on anyway to put up any kind of big numbers?

Yes, but it might not be in a Red Sox uniform.

Oh no! Not that bashing word again. How dare they. I keep hearing how Brez improved the team, and in some areas like starting pitching, and D, but the team won two less games this past year than in 2025, and scored 97 less runs. A magic carpet ride saved the season, which included a ONCE in a lifetime 15 game winning streak. I keep hearing about the core, which many are high on just like the bumper crop from the farm that was supposed to as Bloom said make the team awesome. little A hasn’t lived up to his hype, and expectations yet no matter how many AB he’s had, or hasn’t had. Maybe he will live up to them, and maybe he won’t. If he does I’ll change my opinion, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Best defensive Red Sox outfield in history? Of course you always take the current one like you did with Kike saying he had the best year in CF ever in 2021. Speaker, Lewis, and Hooper are considered the Best defensive Red Sox outfield of all time. The current crop doesn’t have anything on the 2018 crew either with JB, Mookie, and Benni. Lynne, and Evan’s were hard to beat in CF, and RF, and Rice made up his defensive shortcomings with his bat.

The Red Sox aren’t the Brewers. What works for them doesn’t mean it would work for the Red Sox,

And 97 less runs scored than the year before.

Bingo on the average fan, and I think there are more average fans out there than any other kind.

Mead has been going from team to team to team to team the last few years. Nothing baffling about that considering what he put up for stats. Yes he had some success this past year, so we’ll see what player shows up in 2027.🤫

Badley RUSTman has been injured the last two years why should 2027 be any different?🤔

I like the format as it is now. It makes finishing ahead like the Yankees has done to the Red Sox the last two years more meaningful just like the Red Sox playing at home in 2021.

Agree 100% the first part, but not so much on the 2021 team. The 2021 team was a better hitting team with Raffy, and JD in the middle of it, and Renfroe had a pretty good year also, and not to mention Kike had a hot spell too. Bogey was also still there. Can’t forget Flintstone either.