I’m not sure if you heard the news, but the Red Sox were a much better team than anyone expected before the season. The projection systems largely saw this team maxing out their win total somewhere in the mid-80s, and speaking personally I was even lower, predicting they would finish the season below .500. We know what happened instead, and there were a lot of reasons for it. We’re surely going to dig deeper into some specific points where real life diverged with the projection systems for the 2021 Red Sox, but to me there was one big picture quality that led them to their heights above all else.
Rotation health was the engine that drove Boston’s surprising success
