Why Red Sox Should Hold Lofty Expectations For 2025 Campaign

The Boston Red Sox made their team better this offseason to compete for a playoff spot in 2025.

Garrett Crochet and Walker Buehler bring immediate starting pitching upgrades. Alex Bregman is a productive hitter that balances the lineup and brings leadership to the Red Sox clubhouse. The new-look bullpen has experience and stuff to nail down wins. The foundational young players that fought through frustrating seasons recently now have the cast around them to get back to winning ways at Fenway Park.

The Red Sox last made the playoffs in 2021. That’s too long for a staple of the league like Boston. This team now has the right mindset and the right players to end that drought. Boston’s brass made that mission clear the day after the 2024 campaign ended. In response, the Red Sox finally made the decisive moves to deliver a team capable of playing baseball in October for the first time in years.

Postseason baseball long became a standard and those expectations should finally come back around the ballclub in 2025. Rather than play into underdog status, the Red Sox should embrace this season’s winning expectations and rise to the challenge of emerging as a contender once again.

Are the Red Sox a World Series contender? Probably not yet.

What they are is a true contender for the American League East that can open a sustainable window based on the construction of their roster. They have the pieces to make a run and the right manager to guide the ship in Alex Cora.

Spring training games start Friday. The excitement should grow each time Boston takes the field in the coming weeks.