Even with four of their top arms down, the Red Sox bullpen is not in such dire straits
The hits really do just keep coming. Early in the year, it was just Carson Smith, but in the last few weeks, the Red Sox have seen their bullpen hit by injuries to Craig Kimbrel, Junichi Tazawa, and Koji Uehara. For those keeping score, that's the group that would've been considered the top four from before the season began.
When Uehara went down last night -- and it's still not clear that he's down for long -- there was no small amount of speculation that the Red Sox would be forced back into the trade market to replace him, and no few expressing the sentiment that the need for a reliever was desperate.