Trying to find building blocks established in 2020

Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images Things did not go according to plan for the Red Sox in 2020. Controversial statement, I know, but it’s one I’m comfortable making. What can I say? I enjoy being out on that limb. There’s certainly an argument (not even an argument so much as a statement of fact) that winning wasn’t the entire priority this past summer, but due to some things out of their control (global pandemics, injuries, etc) and some very much in their control (trades, lack of action in free agency, etc) things went south quickly. I think if you gave the front office some truth serum they would say their goal for the year on the field was to be the very definition of middling and perhaps luck into a postseason berth, particularly after the expanded field was announced, and at least stay in the conversation most of the season. Instead, they were out of the race in, like, week three.

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