Who haven’t we seen yet on the mound?

Photo by Michael Reaves/Getty ImagesThe Red Sox pitching staff isn’t bad. I mean, it is bad, but also that seems like way too nice of a descriptor. It feels like you’d only call the Red Sox pitching staff bad if you were in their presence and you were trying not to hurt any feelings. The truth of the matter is that the Red Sox pitching staff is [insert your favorite harsh synonym for terrible from the thesaurus]. They are historically ineffective and everyone involved with pitching and putting this staff together should be very thankful that this game is only 60 games (though not thankful for the cause of the shortened season, for obvious reasons). That small sample is probably going to keep them from being a consensus as the worst pitching staff ever, or at least in the conversation.

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