Recently the pen has been a little better but with foster (7.5 era), Marshall (7.4), heuer (5.1) struggling this is a lot of load shifted to bummer, crochet, ruiz and hendricks who could be burnt out if that continues. 

Now TLR has not taxed his pen a lot (dead last in AL reliever innings) and instead pushed starters more but recently he started to dial down that a little as some starters were left in too long and he pulled the guys more conservatively (Still not super modern early pulling but more 90-100 pitches instead of 110+) which I think is good but if the Sox don't have more reliable releivers could wear the pen down especially since they will have a dense summer schedule after all the off days and that can be tough on the pen. 

 

The good thing is that the sox have a great multi inning arm in kopech which has taken a lot of load of the pen, however if there is an injury and kopech has to start that will put extra pressure on the pen again. 

For that reason first I would prefer kopech to stay in that role a little to continue to have that "buffer" for the pen and I also think the sox need some help. 

Do you see anyone in the minors who could help by middle of the season? Or do the sox need external help? 

Edited May 14, 20214 yr by Dominikk85

Flip some mid tier prospects for relief help. Problem solved.