The Red Sox offense needs a shakeup in the worst way

The Red Sox are reeling, which is not a great thing to say on May 9, and is especially not a good thing to say on May 9 in a season that started late. It’s early, but we’re rapidly approaching the end of the time where we’re allowed to say that, and this team is off to quite literally one of its worst starts in the history of the franchise. You don’t get off to this kind of start with only one issue, but it’s certainly hard to look at anything other than the offense for the bulk of the blame, even if it’s not the whole pie.

I’m going to rattle off some depressing facts here for a second, just as a fair warning. The Red Sox have lost five in a row. They have not scored more than two runs…