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.
Yanks extend Hicks.
It's interesting that they're not choosing to wait until the season starts to make these extensions official and therefore adding to their 2019 payroll for tax purposes.
I've said this before - Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Maine are very similar places. Whenever I've been in Maine I have always felt very much at home.
Hockey is it here.
My community of Halifax/Dartmouth has produced the great Sidney Crosby, Nathan MacKinnon (currently 4th in NHL point scoring) and Brad Marchand of the Bruins (currently 13th in points).