“If the players all retired tomorrow, we would replace them, the game would go on; in three years it would make no difference whatsoever. The players are NOT the game, any more than the beer vendors are.”
– Bill James: Father of the Sabre Revolution and a former executive from Boston’s front office.
As a Yankee fan I’m ecstatic the . When I think of Mookie Betts I think of him hitting an Aroldis Chapman slider into the left field seats in 2018. It was September and by then the division was out of reach already.