The Swihart Wars were just two years ago but feel like they happened in a different century. Forget all the off-field nonsense to which we have been subjected during that time; in a strict baseball sense, it’s inconceivable, right now, that we’d have ever really preferred the idea of Blake Swihart to the reality of Christian Vàzquez.
And yet we, and even I, eventually did, against everything our eyes told us. Now that Vázquez has put up a one (1) solid hitting season, it all seems so silly, especially because entering the weird season starting tomorrow Vázquez is arguably Boston’s most important player, though others have argued differently.