The Boston Red Sox have gone through quite the roller coaster in terms of success during the last four decades. They experienced one of the most notorious moments in franchise history in 1986 and then achieved one of the greatest accomplishments in the sport’s history in 2004, not to mention additional World Series titles in 2007, 2013 and 2018, even if that last one isn’t looking as pristine as it once did.
At the same time all that was going on, sabermetrics have risen to become main stream (or nearly main stream) statistics that get bandied about when analyzing baseball.