The strategy last winter for the Red Sox was pretty clear: Aside from a couple of exceptions, get the band back together. Boston aggressively ran back the same roster that put together the best season in franchise history and the best season in the game over a 20-year period. We know how that ended, as a lot of the 2018 heroes just couldn’t repeat themselves in 2019. Among them, of course, was Steve Pearce. The veteran first baseman, currently a free agent, told Rob Bradford of WEEI that he was “unofficially retired.”
What exactly does that mean?