Are the 2018 World Series champions the best Red Sox team of all time?
Retired ace Pedro Martinez is hesitant to use such a superlative — even on a group that won a franchise-record 108 regular-season games en route to their title.
“I don’t know,’’ Martinez said Friday night at his third annual Pedro Martinez Foundation gala. “The record says they have the best season ever. But if you look at some of the important issues that this division had — Baltimore? Bad team. Tampa? Bad team. Toronto? Bad team. When we were playing back in those days, all those teams were good, so it was impossible to go and win 100 games unless you were a mega-star kind of team.