COMMENTARY
Like a lot of people, I wanted to hear from John Henry on Thursday. After striking out, I went to the bookshelf.
“Our success didn’t happen by accident, but was built over time,” the principal owner of the Red Sox (and of Boston Globe Media Partners, which includes Boston.com) wrote in the foreword to ‘Relentless,’ the Globe’s 2018 championship commemorative. “We won the division the past two years. Almost all of our best players were drafted through our farm system. On top of that, we added Alex Cora and his amazing staff, and J.