The Red Sox send the A team out against the Braves to back up Tanner Houck this afternoon at JetBlue Park (1:05 p.m., NESN)—notably, with Trevor Story in the lineup.
That’s right, folks. He’s finally here. Less than two weeks after signing with the Sox and days after the birth of his child, Story will bat sixth and show off what figures to be the full-strength Boston lineup at long last. He’ll play second base, where he’s expected to stay for the majority of 2022, but we’ll see what happens after that. Every metric there is say Story is an elite fielding shortstop and that Xander Bogaerts is not, but right now the position is Bogaerts’s to lose.