Boston Red Sox Report Cards: Rick Porcello

The BoSox Injection staff reflects on the 2016 season by grading each member of the Boston Red Sox based on expectations for them entering the season.

Now this is the pitcher that the Boston Red Sox thought they were getting when they traded for Rick Porcello last year and lavished him with a lucrative contract extension.

Fans were ready to run Porcello out of town after his dismal first season in Boston. The right-hander went 9-15 with a 4.92 ERA in 2015, numbers that personified the act of lighting a pile of money on fire.

Porcello was like a struggling student that couldn’t live up to the potential his teachers saw in him. He’d show flashes of brilliance, only to tank the big test and end…