2026 Red Sox/MLB Season Thread

[Phantom255x]

Funny enough, there is a chance Devers could land back in the AL East

With the Yankees 

[Silas]

How about those Sox....12-2 with a 7 game winning streak.  Hard to hate when they play like this...

[BitterJim]

Funny enough, there is a chance Devers could land back in the AL East

With the Yankees 

I don't see him as a fit for them. They already have Rice at 1B and Stanton at DH, so they'd have to play him at 3B. I know the Yankees are allergic to good defense, but that still seems like a stretch.

[BitterJim]

On the pitching, can you ever have enough starting pitching?  Crochet still on IL, Early, Oviedo on IL, Bello in the minors.  Good thing Patrick Sandoval is coming back.  And where did Bennett come from?

I wonder how good Sandoval will be.  Could be trade bait.

To answer the questions:
No (but you can have too little hitting, which might require trading pitching to fix)
We traded Luis Perales (RH SP, our #4 prospect at the time) straight-up for Bennett in December. When it was announced it looked like a slight loss for us, but now it looks like a slam dunk. Major props to Bennett (and Breslow)

[Goldstar88]

Man, if the Sox could get Crochet and Anthony back for the second half of the season? Could be really interesting.

[Phantom255x]

I was under the belief they should still trade Chapman + Gray to get back a lot of value (multiple Top-100 prospects and/or MLB-ready talent), but that might be difficult to do now with them being in the thick of the wild card race. 1.5 games back of a wild card spot, and technically just 3 games back of WC2. Idk how you can sell that to the fanbase if they sell while being in the hunt (no pun intended)

What a crazy few weeks since the Rockies series where it truly felt like rock bottom. Interesting decisions ahead at the deadline. Do they buy a bat AND sell Gray + Chapman for legit value since they probably won't be here beyond 2027 anyways and are both in their late 30s?

[Goldstar88]

Red Sox are half a game out of a wildcard slot. Unreal 

[Silas]

Sox just completed a perfect 9-0 road trip, their first since 1977, sweeping the Angels, White Sox, and Mets.  They are now a half game back from the final American League Wild Card spot and are 14-2 since this turnaround started.  Remember Morgan Magic back in 1988, well we now may have an equivalence with Tracy Charm (Magic).  What's amazing with this current run is they are winning with lots of players injured, including their best pitcher Crochet and arguably their best hitter Anthony.  Most people, including me, assumed they would be sellers at the trade deadline, I would guess now they will be buyers..... 

[Vermont Green]

Hard to know what to make of this team.  I predicted 90 wins, ha.  They need to go 44-24 the rest of the season to get to 90 wins, not likely.  But the things is, with as bad as the AL is this season, they don't need to win 90 games to make the playoffs.  If they play at about 90 win pace the rest of the season, that would be 38 more wins.  That would get them to about 84 wins and probably get them in the playoffs.

I still believe that pitching, and in particular starting pitching, is more important than hitting.  You need some level of balance of both of course.  This could play out with them getting Crochet back to improve their already good starting pitching.  They could get Roman Anthony back to add some hitting.  And they could go out and get another solid bat without much trouble.

They could have a top 3 pitching staff (in the AL) and a top 10 hitting line up (in the AL).  I think that is good enough to get them in the playoffs.  Not a lot has gone right for this team to date, maybe a few things will start to go their way.