2021 in Review: Hansel Robles was erratic, but mostly effective

Welcome to our 2021 Boston Red Sox in Review series. This is, as you can probably guess, where we will be reviewing all of the players who made at least a modest impact on the Red Sox in 2021. Every weekday we’ll be deep diving into one player, describing the season in a sentence, looking at the positives from the year as well as negatives, looking back at our one big question from our season preview and looking ahead to the 2022 season. Today we look at Hansel Robles’ 2021.

2021 in one sentence

Hansel Robles wasn’t a dominant bullpen arm for the Red Sox after coming over at the deadline for Alex Scherff, but he was more often than not an effective arm in the late innings, albeit sometimes in…