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We Have Got Ourselves A Red Sox Opening Day Lineup (Kind Of)

2018 Boston Red Sox Spring Training

OHHHHHHHH SHIT! We’ve got ourselves an Opening Day lineup, kind of! It’s Christmas Eve, baseball fans. All the time for talk is over. Tomorrow afternoon, we are playing REAL, live baseball games. From now until the end of October, you are guaranteed baseball on your television screens on a nightly basis. The boys of summer are BACK.

After a long and, at times, miserable offseason, I give to you your 2018 Opening Day Boston Red Sox lineup. Is it the Yankees’ lineup? No, but nobody else’s lineup compares to theirs. That being said, this is still one of the best lineups in the American League, and they are more than capable of scoring a shit ton of runs if everybody pulls their weight and stays healthy.

You’ve got Mookie Betts back in the leadoff spot, who has a .349 on-base percentage batting first over the last two seasons. You’ve got Andrew Benintendi hitting second, who had a .335 on-base percentage when hitting second last year. Hanley Ramirez batting third, who is a career .297 hitter with an .850 OPS when batting third. JD Martinez coming to Boston to hit cleanup, posting the highest slugging percentage in the majors by a number four hitter last year (.712).

It’s comeback SZN for Xander Bogaerts, batting fifth, a .333 hitter at that spot from the start of the 2015 season through the 2016 season AKA when he was healthy. You’re either going to have Rafael Devers hitting sixth or seventh with Eduardo Nunez hitting wherever he’s not. And the lineup rounds out with Jackie Bradley Jr. at eighth, and Christian Vazquez at ninth.

That, my friends, is a well-balanced lineup. Are they going to slug you to death? For sure not. But they’re going to be one of the best teams in the league at getting on base, and that’s the name of the game. Well, yeah. Scoring runs is the name of the game, but you can’t score runs if you don’t get on base. You know what I mean.

Here’s to the 2018 season. May the wins be plentiful and the bottles be golden.