Red Sox 2020 and beyond
I’m not going to pretend like I have some grand vision into the future, I don’t. This year is going to be weird as hell with it going to essentially be a mad dash to the postseason. With only 60 games on the schedule, the Red Sox won’t be afforded any time to stumble out of the gates. They need to hit the ground running and gain as much ground as they can before September comes. One bad week and they can find themselves at the bottom of the standings already looking towards 2021.
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As you read through this lineup prediction I’m sure you weren’t shocked at my choices, and you shouldn’t have been. Boston has done a phenomenal job with grooming their talent and having guys on the roster that you don’t even need to think about. There are some wild cards in there though in Pillar, Peraza, Chavis, and Verdugo but for the most part, they’re pretty set. I could’ve gotten real weird and tossed in a bunch of prospects to fill in the lineup card, but that would’ve made zero sense.
For the future, this team is going to be looking a lot different when they show up to camp in 2021. Boston has an insane number of potential free agents when next winter rolls around and Chaim Bloom will have his hands pretty damn full. He’s built a career on saving money while developing young talent to become stars, that’s what I expect him to do. He’ll get some free agents and may re-sign some guys, but he won’t be splashing Dombrowski levels of cash.
A shortened season bodes well for the Red Sox though as their offense should once again be at the top of the league, the pitching will need to hold up its end of the bargain though. We all saw how well that went in 2019, hopefully, 2020 isn’t a re-run. This team is filled with talent from top to bottom, it’s just a matter of realizing and maximizing it. With a lineup as stacked as Boston’s, we should be seeing another Commissioner’s Trophy heading to Fenway soon.