Your 2014
Carmine Hose have 38 games left to play in this dismal season. In order to surpass the win total of the
2012 Boys of Bobby Valentine, they will have to take at least 14 of those games. Seems like a pretty easy task, right?
Except the eight teams they will face until the end have a combined .537 winning percentage—and only
one of those teams is under .500 (Tampa Bay). They will face the division-leading Orioles six times (.577 winning percentage),
The Evil Ones (.516) six times, Toronto (.512) six times, Tampa (.492) seven times, the Angels (.593) three more times, KC (.556) four times, Seattle (.540) three times and Pittsburgh (.512) three times. So, let's say the Red Sox play
over their heads—at .500. That would give them 19 wins—just five more than needed to surpass
The Valentine Line. That's 75-87 for the year. Still pretty, pretty, pretty bad.
