POLL: Just One-Third See Playoffs In Future

A little over two-thirds of our readers (67.3%) express lesser degrees of confidence in the Red Sox making the post-season—39.5% "not confident at all"; 27.8% "not very confident". This is down from the roughly 80% who felt that way in early voting.

Just over one in five readers (21.0%) are very confident in October baseball in Boston, with another 11.7% expressing a "somewhat confident" view. Thus, just about one-third of readers (32.7%) are upbeat about the Sox making the playoffs.