Errors and strikeouts. When you’re a Purple Sox fan you’re in all probability sick of seeing each of these issues. The 2025 Purple Sox led all of baseball in errors final 12 months, after committing the second-most errors in 2024 and the fourth-most in 2023.
The strikeout numbers don’t look significantly better, as Purple Sox hitters completed with the eighth-most strikeouts within the baseball final 12 months and the third-most in 2024.
Errors and strikeouts are the 2 principal the reason why I used to be lukewarm on Eugenio Suarez, the third baseman who simply signed a one-year, $15 million cope with the Cincinnati Reds. Suarez’s 17 errors had been the eighth-most in baseball final 12 months, whereas his 196 Ks had been the fourth-most. He would have made the Purple Sox worse in two areas the place they’re already fairly poor.
However right here’s the flip aspect: it’s additionally fairly potential that he would have hit so many dwelling runs over the monster that strolling down Lansdowne Avenue could be thought of a well being hazard:
The 2025 Purple Sox completed simply fifteenth in dwelling runs and including energy was explicitly acknowledged as one in every of Craig Breslow’s targets coming into the offseason. Suffice it to say, he hasn’t actually performed that but. Rafael Devers and Alex Bregman are gone. Willson Contreras is right here, however his profession excessive in homers is simply 24, and he hit these earlier than the pandemic. Roman Anthony will play a full season in 2026 (like he ought to have final 12 months…) however the dwelling run energy appears to be lagging only a bit behind the remainder of his excellent all-around recreation. So if the Purple Sox are going to hit extra dwelling runs they did final 12 months, they’ll in all probability want that additional energy to return from Tristan Casas, who doubtless gained’t even be wholesome to begin the season and nonetheless has but to ascertain himself as a dependable energy bat.
So for as a lot as I don’t need to see extra errors ands strikeouts within the Purple Sox lineup, it’s actually arduous for me abdomen the Sox not matching the Reds on a one-year deal for a man who may hit twice as many homers as anybody else within the Sox lineup.
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