For all the talk of how bad the Boston Red Sox pitching, especially the rotation, has been, there's another element of the team that has also struggled mightily—and rather unexpectedly—through the first quarter of the season.
That would be the offense.
Coming into the campaign, everybody just knew the Red Sox's pitching staff would be shaky and inconsistent at best and downright dreadful at worst. It has been troublesome, and with a team ERA of 4.51 that ranks as the fourth-worst in baseball, the arms have been more the latter than the former.