Much like it was last season, the Red Sox bullpen is good as hell. Its star is Craig Kimbrel, who is at this moment clearly the best closer in the game and perhaps the best I can remember at any one time. Mariano Rivera was better overall, of course, but he barely counts because he was not human, and he wasn’t overpowering like this anyway. No one is. Kimbrel really is that dude.
We have perhaps gotten used to this now, and that’s cool, but it’s crazy that basically strikes out half the guys he faces.