COMMENTARY
You can say a lot of things about the 2019 Red Sox. One of the more positive sentiments is that this is becoming Xander Bogaerts’s team.
Now past its midway point, feeling at a break thanks to these two days before the London games, this season has somehow been both hard to fathom and easy to understand. World Series hangovers are common, as Livin’ His Dream Lobsterman John Farrell asserted in the Globe. Team construction this year was less about winning a title and more about trying to sneak out another under the luxury tax.