Whoever takes over at shortstop in the meantime, for a guy who’s already had his share of arm strength concerns before getting elbow surgery, will be filling the shoes of someone who was a rotisserie chicken cooker at the position: set it and forget it. The Jarren Duran experience could continue from there I’d love to be wrong, but forgive me if that idea doesn’t leave me jumping for joy.
Bumping Kiké Hernández down to short seems like an easy solution until you remember that it leaves a hole in center. Wonderkid Marcelo Mayer shows a ton of promise but isn’t slated to make his MLB debut until some time in 2024, per MLB Pipeline.
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With the star shortstops officially off the market this winter and the free agent pool looking pretty slim-sorry to the dozens of José Iglesias truthers out there-the Red Sox find themselves in quite the pickle when it comes to perhaps the most important position in the infield.
Improvements to the bullpen and signing an international outfielder with potential? That’s good! Seeing a franchise icon leave in free agency only for his successor to undergo surgery that could keep him out for months? That’s bad! convoluted, if you’re looking to put things diplomatically. Man, that was a fun era wasn’t it? ‘Memba not dreading every single day of the post-Xander Bogaerts era?Ĭhief Baseball Officer Chaim Bloom is now faced with yet another proverbial fork-in-the-road during an offseason that has been. The good ol’ days I’m referring to, of course, was the roughly week-long stretch between learning of Rafael Devers’ extension with the Boston Red Sox and the announcement that Trevor Story is due to miss some time after undergoing surgery on his elbow. To quote Andy Bernard from The Office (the American version, none of that British crap around these parts), “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days before you actually left them.”
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