I think one of the worst parts about the baseball season is that, with its everyday nature, the amazing becomes routine. The Red Sox offense is straight-up bananas, but it’s so easy to take that fact for granted because we see it every day. The expectation is for them to put up a whole bunch of runs every night, and while that’s a fair expectation it also makes it easy to forget that this group has been pretty much perfect this year. Sure, it hasn’t always been balanced and the bottom of the lineup has gone through rough stretches in 2018, but as a whole they have produced more than our wildest dreams, even considering just about all of us were expecting a fair amount of regression back towards the mean after a down 2017.
Rafael Devers and the challenges of developing on a contender
