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Red Sox Travis Shaw: The Next Brock Holt?

The Boston Red Sox continue to climb the standings ladder, sitting just five games back of the American League East division lead. Winners of their last four games, the Red Sox have seen the other four teams steadily decline in their winning ways, with only the New York Yankees posting a .500 record in 10 games. One bright spark that has helped Boston find options to fix what wasn’t working in the early part of the season has been Travis Shaw.

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Let’s settle something before we continue: nobody is saying that Shaw’s lighting up MLB pitching and is some dominance force that cannot be held back.