Are the Projected Rosters based on hard data or speculation?
For the most part, projected rosters are based on educated speculation taking into consideration the current and previous placement of players and the Red Sox Front Office’s tendencies over the past five years. Also, options, contract status, and service time may dictate where a player will start the following season. Additionally, we do keep in touch with several players during the season and off-season, and in some cases they are told where they are projected to start the following season. Thus, there are also several instances when the projections are based on hard data.
