This past weekend’s series versus the incumbent American League East champions functioned to elucidate exploitable imperfections in the Red Sox roster as presently constructed, as illustrated by the comprehensive and thorough dismantling of the Red Sox bullpen.
However, as a glass-half-full type of guy, it is my intention to prove with the assistance of relevant and irrefutable statistics that, while tragically substandard, said bullpen meltdown was, in all probability, an aberration as opposed to the norm. Nevertheless, I can just visualize John Gibbons strolling up to his post-game press conference on Sunday and, in the immortal words of Denny Green, proclaiming, “They are who we thought they were.