Blake Swihart is still waiting for his chance

It’s really hard to complain about this start of the Red Sox season, and beyond Xander Bogaerts’ potential ankle injury you kind of have to go out of your way to find faults. I want to be clear that what follows is not a complaint about how things have played out, but rather an observation and a situation about which I am mildly surprised and curious. Alex Cora has clearly prioritized getting rest for regulars and it is apparent that this will be a strategy to be employed all year. Every regular besides Bogaerts has had at least one day off, and players have been rotated in and out of the lineup on a daily basis. That is, seemingly everyone besides Blake Swihart, who has gotten the short end of the playing time stick at the outset of 2018.

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