The Boston Red Sox simultaneously had a high amount of good and disappointing results in the 2026 season.

The Red Sox, at one point, had the worst record in baseball which resulted in the firing of manager Alex Cora and several members of the coaching staff.

Boston managed to turn the tumultuous first half of the season around and made the playoffs as a wild card, but suffered an unceremonious sweep at the hands of archrivals, the New York Yankees, in the best-of-three wild card round.

Throughout the latest chaotic season in a history of them for the Red Sox, injuries remained a consistent area of struggles, particularly on the pitching side of things.

Here's an overview of the players and time spent on the injured list:

Total days lost to injury: 2,026 (sixth-most)

Total IL stints: 33 (tied-sixth most)

*Information from Spotrac.

-- Boston's starting rotation was bit by the injury bug hard. Tanner Houck, Kutter Crawford and 2025 American League Cy Young runner-up Garrett Crochet missed a combined 529 days of action. Crochet, who entered the year as the ace of the rotation, was out from April 26 to the team's wild card game against the Yankees on Sept. 30.

Several other members on the rotation, such as Sonny Gray, Ranger Suarez and Connelly Early, also missed time.

-- The position player side didn't fare much better for the Red Sox. First baseman Trison Casas (out for the season), outfielder Roman Anthony and shortstop Trevor Story missed a combined 411 days of action.

In the case of Casas and first base, it was a situation where the team may have improved with Willson Contreras, an offseason acquisition from the St. Louis Caridnals, posting his first All-Star season since 2022.

There were several IL stints ranging from a month to two months on the position players side of things. With the lineup in a constant state of flux, there's an argument that the best version of the Red Sox's order was never on the field at once.

-- Boston's month-by-month record resembled a roller coaster more than a season of baseball. The team entered July with a 37-47 record. A 21-4 July and 17-12 August put the Red Sox back in the playoff hunt, but a 12-12 September brought the team right back to earth and the club entered the postseason with an 87-75 record.

The distraction of an almost complete coaching overhaul would already be enough to send a season into freefall, which is why it's so impressive the Red Sox were able to do what they did in July.

However, with the amount of injuries they had, it finally caught back up to the team at the end of the year and the postseason.