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Playing Patience or Panic with Boston Red Sox Players Having Troubling Starts

The Boston Red Sox have a host of players with ugly batting averages and abhorrent ERAs, but not all slow starts are created equal. An annual April tradition across baseball is determining which scuffling players should garner actual concern and whose struggling starts are merely aberrations.

Let's dive into those Red Sox who have stumbled out of the gate and play a game of "Patience or Panic" to decide how worried fans should be about these less-than-ideal 2015 beginnings. 

Patience: Mookie Betts

Though Mookie Betts' play has been awe-inspiring at times, the consistency hasn't been there in the early going.