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Why the Boston Red Sox Are Still a Legitimate Playoff Contender

It has simply been a weird year for the Boston Red Sox so far in 2015.

They started the season strong due to a powerful offense led by offseason acquisition Hanley Ramirez, but their pitching was too ineffective to give the club a realistic chance to make the postseason. 

How bad was the pitching? Horrible.

They fired pitching coach Juan Nieves after the starting rotation posted a horrendous 5.75 ERA in the month of April. 

However, the organization was confident that the pitching woes would stop sooner rather than later.

"We knew we needed good pitching coming into the year to win games," Boston general manager Ben Cherington said via Scott Lauber of the Boston Herald back on May 12.