A way too early look at Red Sox ZiPS Projections

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesAs of this moment, we don’t know what the 2025 Boston Red Sox Opening Day roster will look like. In fact, if we want to get our Bertrand Russell on, we’d have to admit that we can’t even be sure that Opening Day 2025 will happen at all. And if we go Full-Bertrand, we’d probably have to ultimately conclude that we can’t be sure that the Boston Red Sox even exist! But that would kill our page views, so let’s hold off on that for now.

The point is that there’s still some uncertainty about next year’s Red Sox team. So you might ask: what’s the point of looking at statistical projections this far out? After all, it seems almost certain that…