Henry Owens, a player ranked second in Baseball America’s Top 10 Red Sox Prospect list in 2014 and 2015, is now scorned at by fans, and deservedly so.
Owens, 24, has only tallied 17 career Major League starts, but he has managed to get himself on the naughty list. Sox fans have started to write him off as a potential contributor at the big league level, but it’s not time to give up on Owens just yet.
The Red Sox fan base, myself included, is one that expects immediate success. This isn’t wishful thinking, but rather just the way cards have fallen in recent years.