A year ago, Trevor Story fought back tears as he fielded questions in the Red Sox clubhouse.
As his teammates braced themselves for another home opener at Fenway Park last April, Story found himself sitting in the dugout — his shredded left shoulder aided by a sling across his arm.
What the veteran once thought was going to be a clean slate in 2024 quickly turned into a mess, with the shortstop suffering a fracture of the glenoid rim in his left shoulder during the team’s season-opening road trip out west.
After missing the first four-plus months of the 2023 campaign due offseason elbow surgery, Story — who averaged just under 150 games a season from 2017-21 — found himself starting from square one once again.