If you are a Boston sports fan, these are tough times for you. You are just getting over a World Series championship, a Superbowl win, and the Bruins are 2 games away from hoisting Lord Stanley’s cup. The mediocre performances that the Red Sox have been putting on so far in 59 games this season suggest that this might be “the worst team ever”.
However, I’m here to suggest the following: The Boston Red Sox in 2019 (or any other year, in fact) might never be better than the team we saw in 2018. We cannot keep holding them to that standard driven by some recency bias.