A baseball roster is an organic entity, shifting and reshaping throughout a season.
“One of the difficulties from the GM spot is that you address a weakness and something else immediately becomes your weakness,” Red Sox president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski told me. “There is no such thing as a perfect club.”
Only the striving for perfection. Which never ends. Which only reaches greater intensity at this time of year, more so for the Yankees and Red Sox when they are both this good and in each other’s way.
The Rivalry renewed in its most familiar form Friday night — on the field.