FORT MYERS, Fla. — Three observations on the Red Sox while penciling in Ceddanne Rafaela for a Gold Glove in 2025, and ‘26, and …
- The Red Sox will have more “ifs” and “maybes” in places where sure things once stood than any of their Opening Day rosters of recent vintage. It’s a roster stacked with gambits.
This is more uncertain than 2013, when Ben Cherington loaded up on inexpensive veterans to surround David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, and Jon Lester, and more unsettling than 2021, when Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez, and Christian Vázquez were still among the dependables on a roster that underwent some remodeling.