Are the Red Sox soft? Their pitiful play in poor weather sure seems to suggest so

Boston, MA - April 8: Boston Red Sox infielders bundle up against the cold during a pitching change on a night when the wind chill was 23 degrees. (Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | Boston Globe via Getty Images Before Tuesday’s game against the Yankees, Sam Kennedy joined Tom Caron on the NESN pregame show and gave us the following answer when asked about the team’s lack of power: “We gotta start hitting the ball out of the ballpark. I think a lot of guys are gonna start to heat up.

I was actually talking to folks from the other side, and they said after this cold weather you’re gonna see a lot more home runs. They hit a lot of home runs last week when it was 80 degrees in New York City. So let’s get a little home cooking, a little warm weather, and hopefully we get going.

” Moments later, the game began with a first pitch temperature of 47 degrees, and in the top of the second inning, Giancarlo Stanton did this: View Link It’s a good thing it wasn’t 80 degrees, right Sam? Otherwise that ball might have gone 500 feet. Really dodged a bullet on that one!

See, the problem isn’t just that the Red Sox don’t hit the ball out of the park when it’s cold, it’s that they don’t do anything well when it’s cold! If it’s so hard to hit for power when the mercury is low, why is Garrett Crochet giving up bombs to the Tigers? Or going back to the previous homestand, why was the defense throwing the ball all over the place against the Padres in the cold?