NEW YORK — With the moves the Red Sox made leading up to this season, Boston was poised to be a true threat to dethrone the Yankees atop the American League East in 2025.

That hasn’t been the case over these first two-plus months of this season, though.

Not even close.

The Red Sox are a mess. They’re 30-34, sitting 9 1/2 games behind the first-place Yankees in the division. Boston leads the league in errors on defense (54), they’ve been hammered by injuries, they have 17 losses in one-run games (with 14 blown leads on the year) and if they don’t figure this out soon, they could be offloading talent at the deadline instead of buying for a playoff push.

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“Obviously been a tough start for them,” Yan

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