A Boston Red Sox tweaking is needed, not a roster purge

The visceral reaction Boston Red Sox fans to disappointment are usually displayed by a knee jerk reaction to clean house. The change this team needs is minimal and not a cleansing.

This is a follow-up to a previous article that was a far more drastic gutting of the Boston Red Sox in what amounted to a wholesale departure of almost the entire roster – a baseball yard sale. Now a more realistic approach and that is a tweaking that one encompasses some potentially hard decisions, but not stripping to the foundations.

The offense is just fine and seems to run rather smoothly year after year. Statistically some of the numbers may be elevated by games that become prone to a Red Sox barrage, but…