Red Sox Reality Check

What post-mortem examination do the 2009 Red Sox deserve? The simplest and most deserving explanation follows that the Red Sox simply went as far as they deserved. A team created to be balanced failed to show balance...underachieving on the road, including a dismal road show in Anaheim. Overall the team went 95-67, but let's look inside the numbers. They won 16 of 18 games against the Orioles, the worst team in MLB They won 7 of 9 games from the next worse Indians Therefore of their 28 games over .500, 19 came from just two teams 7 teams other than Boston had winning records, New York, Tampa, Minnesota, Detroit, Los Angeles, Texas, and Seattle The Sox split with the Yankees and Rays, and had a winning record against only two teams with winning records (Detroit and Minnesota). In other words, the Sox couldn't beat good teams consistently All of which brings us to why they're working on their handicap instead of freezing to death playing baseball. Why can't the team perfo...