Are the 2024 Red Sox underperforming? The club finished six games under .500 two years in a row and did not make any significant offseason acquisitions, leading most analysts and statistical models to predict that the team would once again be middling (FanGraphs, for instance, pegged them at 79-83 on Opening Day, a one-win improvement over the past two seasons). Moreover, when it was becoming apparent that the 2024 team would look largely the same as the 2023 version in the early post-full throttle days of January, Craig Breslow himself admitted that the team was essentially waiting for further prospect development before it hoped to compete again.