Red Sox: Three up, three down from May
We’re two months into the 2018 season, and some members of the Red Sox have stood out. Who’s hot, and who’s not, after May’s results?
June is here, which means we’ve officially reached the point at which team executives around the league begin assessing what they have to work with for 2018. Contenders will look to find ways to put themselves over the top. The pretenders will take honest looks at what they can afford to part with and what they can get for it, and begin preparing for 2019. For both groups, the beginning of this process always means that some players are about to lose their jobs.
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When it comes to contenders like the Red Sox, players who aren’t performing up to a certain level are going to be left behind. At 40-19, Boston has the most wins, if not the best winning percentage, in baseball. Though they recently dropped two of three games to the Houston Astros, they will almost certainly be playing baseball in October. Harsh though it may sometimes seem, players who aren’t contributing to that goal will either see their roles changed or decreased, or be cut from the team entirely. Sadly, we’ve already seen this process take it’s first victim; Hanley Ramirez, missed though he certainly is, simply wasn’t pulling his weight and was preventing players who were, such as Mitch Moreland, from getting regular playing time.
As we enter the long, hot grind of summer, who else may we see fall by the wayside? Three players have recently put themselves in danger of losing playing time, while three others have proven themselves invaluable after the first three months.