Red Sox: A mea culpa for my articles during the 2017 season
By Rick McNair
Why didn’t the Boston Red Sox listen to me? Here are a few articles I wrote during the 2017 season that explain why they didn’t.
As the baseball season is now finished for the Boston Red Sox it is time for me to personally go back into the BoSox Injection vault and select some of my most insightful columns. There is the Latin phrase of “mea culpa” that is an acknowledgment of having done wrong. This presents a nice personal exercise in hindsight and that is always a great tool when being critical.
Baseball is a game where the reward is sometimes based on failure. A .300 hitter does fail 70% of the time, so success can be based on perspective. Often my opinion will change, but opinions do change when the facts change. It can be very difficult to defend a notoriously bad trade or free agent signing. The Red Sox do have a rather substantial collection of both.
My problem is not accepting any failure, but attempting to reduce the number to a manageable figure. When you write enough articles, the chances are magnified that a few or more than a few will be not exactly Nostradamus material. Often evaluations are made in the short-term with a neglect of looking at the long-term. But for ego reasons, I was totally against the signing of Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez. I can take some comfort in that.
So this can be considered an upon further review situation of the ten and what is the now.