Now that the calendar has turned to February, it’s only natural for our interest in baseball to be ratcheted up a notch. After all, if we are to believe what we hear, pitchers and catchers will begin trickling into spring training camps in Arizona and Florida in another couple of weeks, although that’s all subject to change given the pandemic.
Much of the chatter in recent weeks has been spent on potential trades that GM Ben Cherington might make, and he hasn’t disappointed, pulling the trigger on several major deals that brought a bushel of prospects to help deepen the club’s farm system.