A Way Too Early Look At Red Sox ZiPS Projections

Boston Red Sox v Baltimore OriolesAs of this moment, we don’t know what the 2024 Opening Day roster will look like. In fact, if we want to get our Bertrand Russell on, we’d have to admit that we can’t even be sure that Opening Day 2024 will happen at all. And if we go Full-Bertrand, we’d probably have to ultimately conclude that we can’t be sure that the Boston Red Sox even exist! But that would kill our page views, so let’s hold off on that for now.

The point is that there’s a lot of uncertainty about next year’s Red Sox team. So you might ask: what’s the point of looking at statistical projections this far out? After all, it seems almost certain that several of the players we’d look at…