We will tell each other, the Boston Red Sox are not in the best situation in their history. If the 2022 season has been more than disappointing, the next campaign is likely to be just as difficult.
It is for this reason that the president of the Red Stockings, Tom Werner, asserted that some things had to be done and others had to change. In the first category is the contract extension granted to Rafael Devers.
As for the second group, the president directly pointed the finger at pitcher Chris Sale.
Chris Sale must perform at the level we expect of him.
Can someone contradict Werner? No, nobody. Not even Sale and the main interested party knows it very well.
He’s a businessman. And he’s not where he is because he didn’t do things the right way. You have to call a spade a spade. He gave me a ton of money to go do a job that I just didn’t do. I’m a big fan of logic. I’m a big fan of truth and that’s a very logical statement.
Admittedly, the left-handed gunner hasn’t been entirely lucky in recent campaigns, dealing with various injuries, one being due to Aaron Hicks hitting a finger directly, and another due to a bicycle accident, to name a few.
Things might have been different if Sale had been able to stay healthy.
Maybe – you can’t go back in time and change anything – if I had been healthy for the past few years, we would have gone further. Could we have been better? I don’t know, don’t have a crystal ball.
Sale enters spring camp healthy for the first time since 2019 and is on track to be ready for the Boston roster opener. Things could therefore be different in 2023, even if he will not be able to do everything alone.
