Though their postseason run ultimately fell two games short of the World Series, the Red Sox sent us into that offseason desperately wanting more. But in the back of our minds, questions loomed.
? Why weren't they loading up for one final run before half of the 2018 core hit free agency?
Proving that the game is not played in a vacuum or on an Excel sheet, the Red Sox stumbled to a 9-13 start, the opening month best encapsulated during a lost weekend in Toronto, when right-hander Tanner Houck had to stay home because he wasn't vaccinated, necessitating a controversial shift of Whitlock to the rotation that blew up spectacularly when the Jays walked them off, beat the bullpen with a late grand slam, and then dropped a 1-0 defeat on Whitlock for good measure.
The Red Sox won the season series with the Orioles, 10-9, and got smoked by everyone else. They went 7-12 vs. the Rays, 6-13 vs. the Yankees, and a miserable 3-16 vs. the Jays. The rest of the schedule basically didn't matter. Instead of cleaning up in their own division, they got cleaned out. Instead, the Red Sox pursued the worst of all paths, trying to middle the deadline by holding onto impending free agents like J.D. Martinez and Nathan Eovaldi, and making half-hearted additions such as Tommy Pham and Eric Hosmer. Reliever Matt Strahm likened it to an NFL team playing the field-position game on, and it satisfied no one.
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