Sox need to trade Abreu and Shields, and not bring up Eloy or Kopech until next mid-April.
But seriously, there's a handful of terrible teams that will finish in the bottom 5- Sox, Royals, Orioles, Reds, Marlins. These teams are just outmatched. Now that the Rays have given up, maybe the Orioles beat them some, and the pitchers they thought would be serviceable actually start doing that.
If the Sox go 58-104 and don't pick first, it's not like it's something to complain that they didn't lose enough.