Bobby Dalbec

A flailing ace, an injured reliever, a sidelined bat, a division race that already feels over — and then there's the makeshift shortstop.

John Laghezza introduces the rolling chart, an innovative new way to analyze fantasy baseball performance.

In the first segment of this two-part mailbag, we tackle possible free agent adds and try to figure out the Bobby Dalbec situation.

“Hopefully I kind of established myself in the second half, because that’s what I’m about,” Dalbec said.

Bobby Dalbec was scuffling through a miserable rookie season. Then the man who was supposed to take his job arrived.

Scott Engel uncovers the widely-available players that could help boost fantasy baseball bottom lines, starting with Boston's Bobby Dalbec.

The Red Sox are getting virtually nothing from their first basemen. They have managed to absorb that but to succeed, they may need more.

The Red Sox see Bobby Dalbec as a key piece of their future. But to be part of that vision, he needs to produce in the present.

Dalbec got a curtain call from the Fenway Park crowd after putting the Red Sox on top with a home run in the seventh inning.

“We’re finding our identity,” Dalbec said. “I don’t know what that is yet, but I think we’re on a good path right now.”

The Red Sox have used a different lineup in each of the first 10 games, and the bottom of the order is proving crucial to this win streak.

Jim Bowden breaks down 14 of the young players who are wowing scouts this spring and shares insight from their GMs and managers.

The converted third baseman could be Boston's future at the position, and so far, he's learning it well, even without a veteran mentor.

The Red Sox are rebuilding, as peculiar as that sounds, but the system is clearly on the upswing.

“If you were there every day and watched him in batting practice, oh man he put on a show,” said Dalbec's college coach, Andy Lopez.

Dalbec homered in his debut for the Sox on Sunday, and now projects as the everyday first baseman with Mitch Moreland gone.