2021 in Review: Nathan Eovaldi should have been a Cy Young finalist

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images 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 week day 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 Nathan Eovaldi’s 2021 campaign.

2021 in one sentence

The man affectionately known as “Nasty Nate” anchored the Red Sox’s rotation and was a legitimate Cy Young candidate (or should have been)…