Boston Red Sox are enjoying a surprisingly disappointing 2020 MLB season. After a recent 4-2 defeat to the New York Yankees, they find themselves on a seven-game losing streak and with AL’s worst record (6-16). Some changes are clearly needed, and it appears that Red Sox are well aware of that.
The Red Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom had a chat with The Boston Globe over the weekend and decided to address the team’s struggles.
“Obviously, the results have not been what we wanted,” said Bloom. “We knew that we were down a couple of pitchers and that this was going to be an area of our team that was a work in progress, and certainly we’ve gotten really poor results so far.”
Red Sox entered this year with a notably weaker roster after trading away 2018’s AL MVP Mookie Betts and five-time All-Star pitcher David Price to LA Dodgers during the offseason. Things got worse when the team had to kick off the season without starter Eduardo Rodriguez and All-Star Chris Sale, while poor hitting and unreliable defense also did their part in setting up Boston for failure.
Getting Red Sox back on track won’t be easy with all the issues, with Bloom acknowledging the challenge.
“This isn’t what any of us want,” he added. “There’s a lot of work to do.”
