It’s been a good season for the Red Sox so far. They’re a half-game out of first place and generally better than projected by, well, anyone. Yet there is a running concern, at least among fans, about a very specific “problem:” the leadoff spot.
The leadoff spot has been a puzzler all season for some fans, who have watched its rotating cast of characters and remained disappointed. I joked on an Over the Monster Podcast that wasn’t eaten by the Internet Spirits that the group of second basemen had made a deal with the devil in order to hold down the leadoff spot.