One of the points is that total foul ball territory in baseball has shrunk.
We can forget about that changing, because the reason it's happening is obviously to maximize revenue.
Fast forward to the present, and it's possible (though unlikely) that the 2019 Red Sox feature 2 guys with PED suspensions on their resume, one of them a 'lifetime' suspension.
As far as the pen is concerned, I think the first couple of weeks of the season will be very interesting indeed. One can only imagine what a hot topic it will be on the game threads.
Just looking for some depth for this year, wasn't he? He'd have to be doing magic mushrooms to think one of our catchers would bring back someone to replace Sale or Porcello next year.
I'll assume Merloni was telling the truth.
He's talking about one session that he attended, and he was with the team 5 years or so. And the way he described it the players were all going WTF was that? after it was over. Sounds like it wasn't exactly a regular occurrence.
They won 93 games, and their Pythagorean record was 100-62. But they had an inordinate number of blowout wins.
It was disappointing to miss the playoffs, but this team was the prelude to the great run of success that followed.