It's one of the things that makes baseball unique. In other sports development seems a lot faster and more linear.
Being able to pitch or hit a baseball successfully at the MLB level are extremely advanced and variable skills.
But you have to wonder if they will remain risk averse, maybe forever, on signing pitchers who have reached the age of 30 to big contracts.
Hell, even big deals for 25 year old pitchers can be risky, as Yamamoto's injury would indicate.
All's I know is that I have a pretty comfortable feeling about Breslow being the right guy to run this team for a while.
My main source of anxiety right now is Cora's status for next year.
I guess it'll have to be said a zillion times, but none of us wanted that contract. The Red Sox just didn't make a serious effort at a reasonable new extension.
I like the fact that you can still limit the appearance to 1 or 2 batters if they are the final outs of the inning and you get the job done. I think that makes it a fair compromise.
I have no doubt that the Red Sox front office feels exactly the same way.
If they do buy it will be something more along the lines of the moves DD made in 2018.