We’re several weeks into the season and there doesn’t seem to be any turnaround in sight for the Red Sox. Night after night, game after game, it just feels like this team has lost its identity. The starting rotation that dominated the baseball world last year can’t find the strike zone. The batters that struck fear in every team can’t score any runs. And the manager that had all the right moves on the chessboard seems to be playing checkers.
There’s no reason to sugarcoat anything anymore. We can try as hard as we want to find the silver linings but they’re just too few and far to even locate.