The home run drought is concerning. Home runs were plentiful and crucial in last year’s post season and neutralized good pitching and even good bullpens. You don’t beat these highly specialized starter bullpen combinations with station to station any more that often. We saw this in the all star game even.
Sox have been top five all year or better but suddenly are looking at dropping out of the top 10. The hope is this is a small sample issue. But it also could be that the first 100 games were a bit of a distortion and this is a regression to the mean. JD has helped but the fact that pretty much everyone was exceeding last year has me concerned that last year’s lower-power team is really more who we are (plus JD) and that’s what we’re seeing some of now.
Sox have been top five all year or better but suddenly are looking at dropping out of the top 10. The hope is this is a small sample issue. But it also could be that the first 100 games were a bit of a distortion and this is a regression to the mean. JD has helped but the fact that pretty much everyone was exceeding last year has me concerned that last year’s lower-power team is really more who we are (plus JD) and that’s what we’re seeing some of now.