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Red Sox mailbag: Mike Napoli's slump, Rusney Castillo's arrival date and the value of perception

The Red Sox had MLB’s worst pitching staff in the month of April, they have the worst offense in the month of May and they’re still just two games back from .500 and 3.5 games back of the first-place Yankees.

It’s a long season. Buckle up.

Let’s get right to the questions, and we’re leading off with a good one:

Jeff ‏@JPhish
Do you think the Sox overvalue any of their players? Follow up: do you believe there are "un-trade-able" players?

I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately and should probably write a longer piece on it one of these days, but to sum it up I decided that yes, I do think the Red Sox overvalue a lot of their young players.