Boston Red Sox: Four areas of need heading into the 2020 season
By Drew Athans
The Red Sox roster for the 2020 season looks to be almost complete as spring training starts. Here are four areas in which they should try to improve before Opening Day.
With spring training starting this week, the Red Sox team construction is nearly complete. Gone are Mookie Betts, David Price, Rick Porcello, Brock Holt, and Steve Pearce from the core of the team that won the World Series just two years ago. Newcomer Alex Verdugo will do his best to fill the enormous shoes Betts left behind, while President of Baseball Operations Chaim Bloom has made several low risk/low reward trades to add roster depth and restock the minor leagues.
When it comes to the big league club, though, there are still several areas of desperate need heading into the season. The big league roster is set at most positions, but there are serious depth and talent questions at first and second base and the pitching, both starting, and relief, is perilously thin and short on talent as currently constructed.
Even if the team had kept Mookie and Price, these four areas would have been in need of some upgrades. Let’s take a look at each of them and see what the Red Sox options are on the remaining free-agent market, as well as any potential internal options.