It’s no secret fans don’t trust bullpens. Usually, it’s just a lot of smoke being blown about. If you stop the sample size at the end of July, the Red Sox bullpen was good, perhaps even great, debatably placing in the top five, despite the steps back for Joe Kelly, and arguably Heath Hembree.
However, in August, the pen has seemingly all but fallen apart. Now, I would never advise a person to take samples from just 40 innings of work, but the Red Sox bullpen is mustering a 4.81 FIP this month, which is the 9th worst in all of baseball.