Winningest team in baseball? Check. Hundred-year-old record broken? Check. World Series Champions? Check that box too. The 2018 Red Sox were one of the most exhilarating teams to watch this 162 game season. Out of those 162 games, the Red Sox won 108. They only lost 54 games. With these Sox, the game was never over, whether it be a Mookie Betts grand slam, Brock Holt being the only player ever in the postseason to hit for the cycle, the Joe Kelly fight club, Nathan Eovaldi being the acquisition of the century, or Craig Kimbrel nearly giving every Bostonian a heart attack, this was the best season of baseball I’ve ever witnessed, next to the 2004 Red Sox reversing the curse.
It seems like Boston won about every award possible. J.D. Martinez is the first player in Major League Baseball history to win the Silver Slugger award as both an outfielder and a designated hitter. Let that sink in. His batting stats were so absurd in both categories that the league had to give him both. Mookie Betts is the first American League player ever to win a World Series, an MVP, a Gold Glove, and a Silver Slugger all in the same season. Jackie Bradley Jr. finally won his first Gold Glove. Ian Kinsler also won a Glove.
The only award that didn’t come the Red Sox way was American League Manager of the Year. Alex Cora, in his very first season as a manager brought the Red Sox to a World Series pennant, and didn’t win. Luckily, he couldn’t care less. And quite frankly, I’m the same. All that really matters is that we get to hang another banner outside Fenway, and we got to skip work and school for a day to see our heroes drive through Boston in boats that drive on land… or… cars that float on water, take your pick.

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