BOSTON — When the Red Sox were putting their team together last offseason, filling important holes in the roster and spending as they hadn’t in years, at no point did they say: “With a little luck, maybe we can be a .500 team.”
That’s where they finished last season, at a perfectly mediocre 81-81. Their winter and early spring additions were supposed to yield so much more. If we’re grading the 2025 season in terms of return on investment, the Sox have underachieved in a big way and there’s no getting away from that point.
