The Red Sox head to the Midwest this afternoon to as they kick off a three-game set against the Tigers (5:10 p.m., NESN) behind Michael Wacha, who makes his Boston debut.
Wacha had a decent spring, but he’s not a big strikeout guy, so there is some variance built into his results that could bite the Sox the way it’s bitten his last two employers — his last three “full” season ERAs (thanks, 2020) were 4.76, 6.62 and 5.05. That’s not going to cut it in the AL East, but fortunately for us the Tigers are not in the AL East, so maybe they’ll flail away accordingly.