Thursday night in the Bronx just confirmed what we already knew.

The Red Sox were a flawed team that scraped their way into the American League playoffs for the first time in four years and hoped to survive. Boston didn’t have the everyday lineup strength, defensive fundamentals, pitching depth or overall talent level to survive for very long in the crucible that is October.

Garrett Crochet wound up standing out for all the wrong reasons. He was one of precious few players on the roster truly worthy of the stage, dominating in a Game 1 outing against the Yankees that cemented his star status in the sport. The Red Sox stretched their bullpen to the breaking point while dropping Game 2 and went quietly in Game 3, 4-0, on Oct. 2, thanks to one nightmarish inning in the field and eight fr

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