Looking back, the lowest point must have been the final two months of last season.
Jackie Bradley Jr. was barely batting .200, with the worst OPS of any hitter in the majors, when he got sent back to Triple-A in mid-August. And once he returned in early September, the Red Sox' erstwhile center fielder of the future finished the season in a 1-for-36 slump that left him buried on the team's depth chart beneath a converted infielder (top prospect Mookie Betts) and a Cuban defector (Rusney Castillo) who signed for $72.5 million without ever playing a big-league game.