Coming into the season, Nathan Eovaldi was entering an impossible situation with too much on his plate. It certainly wasn’t his fault, but with Chris Sale’s injury, Eduardo Rodriguez’s health issues, and David Price being traded to Los Angeles, Eovaldi was thrust into an “ace” role. Whether or not you define ace as anyone at the top of a rotation is picking nits, but the important part was that he Eovaldi came in as the number one for Boston, a role for which he frankly is not suited. As it turned out, our fears about this rotation were somehow not strong enough, and Eovaldi ended up being at the head of a historically bad group.
Nathan Eovaldi got back under control
