Remember the old days, before the COVID-19 virus froze the baseball world (and just about everything else) in place? Back when were pondering such simple things as whether Andrew Benintendi would bounce back from a mediocre season, and Xander Bogaerts and Rafael Devers would repeat their career years, and how the Red Sox would replace the darned-near-irreplaceable Mookie Betts?
It wasn’t even a month ago at this writing, but it feels like so much longer. And if I recall correctly, we weren’t all that optimistic about their chances.
We still have no answers as to how this Red Sox roster might have fared, and we may not for a long time.