The Red Sox are in first place nearly halfway through what was supposed to be a bridge year, and all anyone wants to talk about, it seems, is what’s going wrong. Which isn’t very much, frankly. It’s just that everything that’s not working is so bloody obvious it can’t help but drive people nuts.
The most sensitive point of contention is the leadoff spot, about which I’ve written before but about which people still complain, as if my columns are not the final say on the matter. Fine, fine I’ll do it again. To say that the hitters in the leadoff spot have been bad is an understatement.