Is Jose Iglesias a better shortstop than Xander Bogaerts? The answer is both yes and no and I am sure on the yes option we could all agree if I restated. Is Iglesias and better defensive shortstop than Bogaerts? No question about that. We saw it in Boston and we see it occasionally when the Detroit Tigers play the Red Sox.
As a Red Sox farmhand, the mantra for Iglesias was “If he could only hit?”
In 2013, Iglesias started to hit, as in a .330 average to go along with his superlative glove work.