The Red Sox probably do not have enough good pitchers to be competitive in 2020, despite what I wrote last month. Chris Sale is out, Eduardo Rodriguez is ailing and Zack Godley, if signed, is the third starter in what’s left of the rotation, leaving Nathan Eovaldi as the only big name still hanging around. It’s hard to win with one functioning pitcher, even if he’s the best pitcher in baseball, and Eovaldi is not the best pitcher in baseball, so that ought to make it even more difficult.
Adding to the difficulty, Eovaldi has a habit of getting hurt every other month in the best of times and this shortened season, should it progress, seems like an injury magnet above and beyond that of a normal year, given that everyone is out of their routines.