Remaking the Red Sox? Start by looking at their free-agent decisions.

Of the Red Sox' three likely free agents this offseason, Justin Turner has had the best 2023. But Boston's fielding situation could make it difficult for him to return.COMMENTARY

It’s football season now, a moment of clarity when the baseball diehard realizes more people watched that series of ads where Peyton Manning flew a baguette than will watch any World Series game.

Practically, this doesn’t matter much outside of meaning MLB won’t stop trying to appropriate NFL things — Schedule reveals! Draft combines! — any time soon. Plenty of things survive without being the most popular thing.

It also means the 2023 Red Sox can quietly fade into the obscurity their too-thin rotation and abysmal…