Well, that certainly wasn’t what we expected. After the first month (plus a few days in March), the defending champion Boston Red Sox, who lit the league on fire from start to finish in 2018, sat at 13-17 and in 4th place in the AL East when the month of April came to a close.
On the bright side, the deluge of injuries facing the New York Yankees, plus the fact that the Tampa Bay Rays just aren’t as good as their record suggests, has kept Boston from slipping too far out too early. However, there is still quite a bit of ground to make up.