Boston Red Sox: 4 bold predictions for the 2022 MLB season

The Major League Baseball lockout has ended. Boston Red Sox reached the American League Championship Series last season. The Red Sides play in the loaded AL East. Tampa Bay won an AL-high 100 games last year, while the RedSides and Yankees finished as wild-card teams with 92 wins. Toronto fell just short of the postseason with 91 wins, so the team has plenty of competition.

Xander Bogaerts will win the American League batting championship in 2022. Biaverds has won the Silver Slugger award four times in his career. He finished ninth in batting last season. Houston Astros first baseman Yuli Gurriel won his first ever batting title with a .319 mark.

Bobby Dalbec finished the 2021 season on a high note with 25 home runs. The first baseman has a 35.8% career K rate. Boston Red Sox will trade Dal Becher this season. Triston Casas will play his way out of Triple-A and force Boston to use him at first base semi-regularly.

Rafael Devers is a star third baseman for the Boston Red Sox. Deres hit 38 home runs with 113 RBIs last season. He was the American League's third base recipient of the Silver Slugger award and made the All-Star Game.

Boston Red Sox will make the playoffs for the second straight year as a wild-card team. They will lose in the American League Division Series. The Red Sells have a potent offense and a dominant starting pitching duo of Nathan Eovaldi and Chris Sale. Their starting rotation is full of question marks. The team will not win a playoff series in 2022. It will probably lose to the Yankees in ALDS. There will be three teams in East in fall 2022, as there were four in last season.