We don’t yet know against whom the Red Sox will be playing in the postseason and we don’t yet know where.

But we can be reasonably certain that, for the first time since 2021 the Red Sox are going to be part of baseball’s playoffs.

Entering Thursday’s action, the Sox’ chances stood at greater than 95 percent to qualify for the postseason. With just 15 games remaining, it would take something like a 5-10 slippage for the Sox to fall out of the picture.

Regardless of where they finish in the seeding, however, the Red Sox are going to be taking part in October baseball. Beyond the matter of opponent and location, they have some things to figure out

Here are six of them:

1) What do they do with the back end of the rotation?

In the best-of-three wild card round, the Red Sox can get away

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