Here's the deal: The Boston Red Sox's offense has been really good in 2016. It's scored 324 runs in 54 games, an average of 6.02 per contest. At that rate, it'll finish with 975 runs. That's only 25 runs shy of 1,000, a mark last reached by Manny Ramirez, Jim Thome and the rest of the 1999 Cleveland Indians.
That points to a non-zero chance of the 2016 Red Sox making a spirited run at 1,000 runs. The real question, of course, is how much higher than zero their chances go.
Well, it says a lot that this isn't a question of whether Boston's offense looks legit.