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This time last season so much of the discourse surrounding the Red Sox revolved around Xander Bogaerts and his looming free agency. It was like a dark cloud that hung over everything, and even when the Red Sox played well it lingered like an odor you couldn’t escape.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Rays really aren’t going to win them all.

A week and change into the season, the 2023 Red Sox are a mystifying group.

DETROIT — It was an evocation, a reminder of what the sports landscape in Detroit used to look like at this time of year.

BOSTON — Mitch Keller doesn’t wear sleeves when completing household chores. On a chilly day in Boston, Keller flashed some forearms and incredible stuff while delivering one of the best starts of his career, helping the Pirates to a series sweep against the Red Sox.

BOSTON — The breadth of a baseball season, 162 games in all, allows for these beauties, the back-and-forth, nothing-ever-seems-right affairs. On Monday in Boston, two popups were dropped, a single off first base scored a run, and the Pirates and Red Sox combined for six home runs.

Five violations were by batters, eight by pitchers and one by a catcher as all MLB teams opened on the same day for the first time since 1968.

Boston’s third baseman earned a piece of history during the team's Opening Day game against the Orioles.

The two parties don’t appear to be close.

Duque Hebbert pitched just one inning, but he made quite an impression.

The pitching prospect wanted something to remember the moment.