Welcome back to The Red Seat Podcast, episode #283. On this episode, Jake Devereaux, Keaton DeRocher, and Bob Osgood try to answer why the .500 Red Sox are so incredibly average and evaluate who their best trade pieces could be if they are sellers at the deadline.
We opened the show discussing a team that entered play on Monday with a .500 record and a run differential of exactly zero.
What’s been the main issue? Well, the lineup for one. Over the last 30 days, they rank 23rd or worse in fWAR, wRC+, OPS, and, most glaringly, Home Runs at 29th.