only if you ignore "one of the worst pens in baseball" part.
Stepping away from the trade frenzy, you still would have to replace those guys. Then the question is how? Even dumpsters get emptied once a week.
They will be playing some you wish were subpar after our glorious false hope trade deadline. As some teams forfeit their season and their prospects not ready, the Sox will have more competition in the dumpster dive.
I often wonder what the value is in this other than fulfilling our sense of trade frenzy.
This team has young arms that still need to be stretched. They can do the dumpster dive route but there will also be more teams involved in the dumpster dive.
How does this team benefit from it? that I'm not so sure.
We try to rationalize it but never look at the results. They only results we cherish is if the carriage turns into a pumpkin.
This seems exclusive to baseball more than any other sport.