Daily Red Sox Links: Chris Sale’s path to Cy Young

Baseball-Reference is one of the best sites on the internet. Full stop. You can have your YouTube and your Facebook. Give me some good ol’ fashioned (and new fangled) baseball stats to the face all day, every day. That’s why when I saw the following tweet, I was pretty intrigued. (Apologies if I’m late to the party on this feature).

TIP: Use the Oracle of Baseball to find out how any two players are connected, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon style https://t.co/iVdiU4EVf6

— Baseball Reference (@baseball_ref) February 15, 2018 I was also struck with an idea. What kind of connections do the current Red Sox have with the Red Sox of the ancient past (aka 1900s)? The first one that came to mind was ace…