COMMENTARY
Change is a bit of a thing with your 2023 Red Sox. It happens with last-place teams, but this is no tweak. A third of the likely lineup, nearly half the rotation, and likely half the bullpen didn’t play in carmine hose last year.
Consider things thusly. For roughly the same money, the Red Sox swapped:
Out: Xander Bogaerts, J.D. Martinez, Nathan Eovaldi, Michael Wacha, Rich Hill, Matt Strahm, and Matt Barnes
In: Masataka Yoshida, Justin Turner, Adam Duvall, Corey Kluber, Kenley Jansen, Chris Martin, Joely Rodriguez, Richard Bleier, and Adalberto Mondesi
I don’t want to belabor the point when we’ve got six more weeks until the games count, but it’s a hard thing not to bring up.