Good morning! The Red Sox will play actual Major League competition today. We\u2019re getting there, even if the weather outside doesn\u2019t exactly look like baseball season.<\/p>\n
For today\u2019s question we\u2019re looking for some optimism: Which Red Sox player will take a leap this year?<\/p>\n
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There are a number of candidates, thanks to the plethora of young players on the roster. But if, say, Roman Anthony has an all-star season, would that count as a \u201cleap\u201d? He played at an all-star level last year already. On the pitching side, Brayan Bello and Johan Oviedo are well-positioned to make a leap, but there\u2019s no guarantee either one will. Hell, given the pitching depth, it isn\u2019t hard to imagine a scenario where neither one of them finishes the year in the rotation.<\/p>\n
Offensively, Wilyer Abreu would probably be my leading candidate. He\u2019s already just shy of all-star caliber and Alex Cora sounds prepared to run him out there against lefties. Ceddy should be considered, of course, but I have a feeling we\u2019re going to spend the next four-five years hoping he finally improves his pitch recognition and becomes a monster.<\/p>\n
What say you? Talk about whatever you want and, as always, be good to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning! The Red Sox will play actual Major League competition today. We\u2019re getting there, even if the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":584932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,48,5172,182,31521,74497,5416,4,793,606],"class_list":{"0":"post-584931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-boston-red-sox","10":"tag-brayan-bello","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-fort-myers","13":"tag-jetblue-park-at-fenway-south","14":"tag-johan-oviedo","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-roman-anthony","17":"tag-wilyer-abreu"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116109214165094970","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/584932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}