{"id":513300,"date":"2026-01-13T14:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513300\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T14:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T14:53:13","slug":"could-the-red-sox-finish-in-last-place-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/513300\/","title":{"rendered":"Could the Red Sox finish in last place in 2026?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">In the 19 years between 1993 and 2011, the Red Sox didn\u2019t finish in last place in the division a single time. In the 14 years since 2011, they finished in last 6 times. The lean Chaim Bloom years were intended, according to Fenway Sports Group, to serve as something of a resent to avoid the \u201cboom and bust\u201d cycles that we\u2019ve seen over the last decade. And with a playoff berth last year, it was looking like the Sox would be out of the cellar for a while. But is that hope already evaporating?<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to Jonathan Papelbon, the race for last place in the AL East in 2026 is between the Red Sox and the Tampa Bay Rays:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Talk about what you want, remind yourself that the offseason isn\u2019t over yet, and be good to one another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the 19 years between 1993 and 2011, the Red Sox didn\u2019t finish in last place in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":513301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[229365,194777,1266,3959,62,1289,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-513300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-fenway-sports-group","9":"tag-jonathan-papelbon","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-red-sox","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tampa-bay-rays","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115888365055080736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}