The Red Sox has remained tantalizingly close to the cusp of playoff legitimacy thanks, in part, to divisional ineptness and an expanding playoff structure that will eventually match that of the National Hockey League.
This has a natural progression into what steps management must take to get over the final hurdle and be considered to sit at the adults’ table. Just maybe a replication of the famed Colorado Rockies streak of 2007 which catapulted them into the World Series only to be dismissed by the Red Sox?
Forget the fantasy and think reality.
With failure comes opportunity and that has already been displayed with Eduardo Rodriguez and Blake Swihart.