Are the Boston Red Sox hopeless?

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Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman discuss how the Boston Red Sox season has unfolded and debate if the team can turn things around with the help of hopeful prospects. Hear the full conversation on the 'Baseball Bar-B-Cast' podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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This club entered the season with expectations at the big league level.
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It entered the season with pretty solid playoff odds and maybe most importantly, it entered the season with 3 of the most exhilarating, promising prospects in the upper minor leagues, and yet, at this point, the Boston Red Sox can best be described as a mess.
Things have gotten ugly.
They were swept this week by the Milwaukee Brewers, who had yet to sweep anybody.
They are, what was the statistic, 5 and 16 in one-run games.
But they have been walked off 1234567 times.
Uh, those have not all been one run games, but it kind of gives you A sense of how unpleasant this season has been for Red Sox fans because there has been a lot that has gone right, but more recently, a lot has gone wrong.
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And as they sit here now on this five game losing streak in the news for all the wrong reasons, because people want to know.
When their top prospect, Roman Anthony is going to arrive while their other two top prospects are in the big leagues in very different situations.
You know, we both picked them to win the division and like a lot of people kind of fell for the hype, fell for the roster, fell for those prospects and thought, OK, listen, at this point, even though the Red Sox have been so frustratingly mid the last few years, they have enough good players now.
We think they can do it.
It was Memorial Day.
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On Monday, which is commonly thought of as a very convenient waypoint in the baseball season.
It is more or less a third of the way through the year.
It is the time when you really have to stop saying the word off to a slow start, or it's early.
It's early April.
It's April.
So we can't even say it's May.
It's certainly not March.
No, those, those options are, are running out.
We now have to start taking.
The standings and the stats, and these rosters and depth charts, we have to start taking them a little bit more seriously, right?
And when you look at the Red Sox and what they have been, You make an ugly face.
But then when you think about these Red Sox and what they could be the rest of the year, you look, that's still kind of there.
It's still kind of there, but the path to it is confusing.