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Peter Fatse took over as hitting coach in Boston last December after the team severed ties with Tim Hyers, who declined an offer to return. In 2022, the Red Sox lineup featuring Xander Bogaerts, Rafael Devers, J.D. Martinez and Trevor Story, is one of the league’s worst offenses. Entering play on Friday, they ranked tied for 22nd in slugging percentage (.347), 27th in on-base percentage (.279) and tied for 28th in wRC+ (79). To describe the Red Sox offense in a series of one-word descriptors, it’s been disappointing, abysmal, terrible, anemic and atrocious. Let’s add one more: discouraging. Un…