COMMENTARY
From the best record in spring training, to a 17-2 start, to a 108-win regular season, to a dominant march through the iron of the major leagues the Red Sox romped through the 2018 season on the way to claims that they’re the best team in franchise history — if not one of the best teams baseball has ever seen.
But the process of building these champs didn’t begin in February when the team reached Fort Myers. It’s a process that started more than four years ago, when the team had barely moved beyond the wake of their 2013 championship, and when Ben Cherington began the process of building toward the next great Red Sox team.