When the 2017 season rolled around, it was hard not to feel comfortable with Robbie Ross Jr. as the Boston Red Sox lefty-specialist out of the bullpen. He built off a solid 2015 with a fantastic 2016.
The left-handed reliever didn’t get to build off the momentum in 2017 though. Ross Jr. threw just nine innings, before missing the vast majority of the season with an injury. In those nine innings, he walked five batters and posted a 7.00 earned run average.
Maybe it’s due to those poor numbers that fans seem to have tossed him to the side.