COMMENTARY
This is the question I keep asking myself while trying to muster enthusiasm for the 2021 Red Sox, who somehow begin spring training in two weeks despite [gestures broadly] all of this going on the world:
What has to happen for them to be good?
And as the obvious follow-up: How much of what has to happen is reasonable to expect to happen?
Before we dig into a roster that has recently added complementary pieces and yet as a whole remains a roster not yet worthy of too many compliments, we should probably define what “good” means in regard to this team’s capabilities.