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Forget openers. The Red Sox should piggyback starters

Back in the Normal Times, before COVID-19 started ramping up on America’s shores and baseball — and really the sports world at large — shut down, the big talk around the Red Sox was all about the rotation. That’s obviously for good reason, too, and when some real baseball talk squeezes its way in between all of the legitimate COVID concerns that remain with his potential restart to the season, the rotation remains the focus. Why wouldn’t it? It’s the clear weakness on the team and the reason many (myself included) see the Red Sox as being on the outside looking in for the playoff picture.