Boston Red Sox Manager Gives Vote of Confidence to Struggling Veteran
It's been a rough start to the season offensively for nearly everyone on the Red Sox, but perhaps none are off to a worse start than veteran shortstop Trevor Story.
In a season that has been chock-full of them, it was another day to forget at the plate for Boston Red Sox shortstop Trevor Story as the Sox fell to the San Diego Padres on Sunday afternoon by a final score of 8-6. The Red Sox are now 2-7. Story entered Sunday's rubber match hitting a paltry .
108 in the first eight games of the season, good for eighth-worst among qualified big leaguers, striking out a whopping 40. 5% of the time, a mark that ranks him in the bottom 12 in baseball. While his 1-5 performance in Sunday afternoon's loss will raise his batting average to .
118, the pair of strikeouts don't do much to lower his high strikeout rate. Not only has Story struggled mightily at the plate, but he also has yet to look the part defensively. Coming off a season where he committed the third-most errors among big league shortstops (19) and his arm strength diminished as the season went on, it has been more of the same to start 2026.
Story entered Sunday with two errors already and thanks to a second-inning throwing error, now finds himself tied for the second-most errors in baseball. Everything is going wrong for Trevor Story right now. Just can't say you're focusing on run prevention if this is going to happen on a regular basis.