Too much of a good thing can have serious consequences, but that usually involves personal choices and not baseball. Can you have too much hitting or too much pitching? The Boston Red Sox have a problem and it is the type of problem that virtually every team in baseball would accept – too much pitching with the concentration on starting pitching.
They are overloaded according to any depth chart analysis. The recent trade brought another “Ace” to the staff that joins a long-term ace in David Price and a short-term ace in Cy Young Award pitcher Rick Porcello.