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Red Sox Need Runs And Pitching, Not Home Runs

Seriously, are we still in the 1990s? ‘Chicks dig the long ball’ is getting really old.

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Nick Cafardo of The Boston Globe wrote in a recent article that the Boston Red Sox do not have enough power to compete with the rest of the American League East, let alone the league itself. While that may be true, his point about the necessity to compete for home runs alongside the Toronto Blue Jays seems a bit old-fashioned.

Cafardo asks and answers his own point by saying, “How important is it to have power?