In many ways, traditional baseball logic hasn't applied to the Boston Red Sox this season. The team was supposed to be left for dead when it traded its best player, Rafael Devers, a month and a half before the July 31 trade deadline. Instead, the team has a winning record since that fateful June 15 trade, leap-frogging the arch-rival New Yankees and putting themselves back in the thick of the AL Wild Card race.
Given the topsy-turvy nature of the 2025 campaign, expect Boston to make some interesting playing time decisions once rosters expand in September, with some players in jeopardy of losing significant playing time if not being relegated to the bench altogether.