It was kind of an inconsequential move, since what we gave up was Bard and Meredith.
In what turned out to be a lost season.
Only us nutty Sox fans would still be arguing about such a trivial transaction all these years later.
I actually forgive both Damon and Ellsbury, because they helped us win championships first.
With Boggs and Clemens it went the other way, and they would probably be two of my least favorite Sox players anyway.
I can't really say. But when I'm watching a game I don't like to be constantly bombarded with data. I think there has to be kind of a balanced approach.
But I don't think Mr. Average Fan is completely oblivious of the fact that Theo Epstein is a fan of analytics or that analytics may have played a part in the titles.
I'm not bringing this up to troll the Yankee fans. But it would have been kind of embarrassing if Cashman waited until the season started to announce the extensions for Severino and Hicks.
The way I see it right now is that over the last 15 years the Red Sox are the most successful team in MLB with 4 titles.
So we ARE the model team over that time frame.
And as everyone can see, even the model team makes its share of mistakes.
Because in MLB the performance of players is always difficult to predict because it's such a thin line between success and failure at the level they're competing at.