“In the movies, only the beautiful and the young appear bathing under the showers. Is it that the ugly and the old do not bathe? ”… Pacomio.
The Braves won the 2021 World Series, but it’s not about them that baseball people talk and write the most these days. What you hear the most is the Yankees, the Dodgers, the Red Sox.
Nothing can against what we call charm or charisma.
And when it comes to charisma in baseball, no team has been superior to Boston. Because the Yankees, the Mets and the Dodgers always fill their stadiums, but they have been historically winning teams. On the other hand, the Red Sox, aboard “The Curse of the Bambino”, 1918-2004, spent 86 years with Fenway Park full of fans, without winning a World Series in all that journey. And they lost it five times during the wait.
So many people went to see them, that during those 86 years they expanded Fenway’s capacity four times, up to the current one, with comfort for 37,731 people.
After 2004, they have also won the 2007, 2013 and 2018 World Series.
Now, after falling two wins away from the 2021 Series, the Red Sox face intense work to put together the 2022 roster. Their free agents are numerous and important.
Like the 34-year-old Miami native JD Martínez, who has said he will give up the option he had signed for 2022, for $ 19,350,000. That is, he aspires to more money, after this year he hit 28 home runs and hit .286.
On the other hand, the left-handed and Valencian pitcher, Eduardo Rodríguez, does not want to leave, but to be signed in Boston. After not being able to pitch in 2020, due to the coronavirus and myocarditis, Eduardo started 31 games this year, for a record of 13-8, 4.74, with 185 strikeouts against 47 walks.
Also free, right-hander Adam Ottavino, who in 62 innings left strikeouts to 72 batters and his percentage of walks and hits per inning was 1,452.
And Kyle Schwarber, utility, acquired last July 29, from the Nationals, in exchange for the Mexican right-hander of the minors from Aguascalientes, Aldo Ramírez, 20, who is in the minors.
Manager Alex Cora and the executive train that occupies the Fenway Park offices will be very busy this winter. The enthusiastic and knowledgeable fans in and around Boston no longer want to wait 86 years for the next World Series win.
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