Since first-half 2018 Craig Kimbrel (maybe even before then), most of Red Sox Nation has been praying for a consistent closer who makes the 9th inning easy work. Experiments with Matt Barnes, Brandon Workman, Ryan Brasier, and closer by committee all felt like fails of epic proportions. Each of them either fell off the hill or never made it up to the top of the hill to begin with. Garrett Whitlock and Tanner Houck rotated into that committee as well, but playing around with their roles for so long seemed to have broken the peaks of each of these guys.
Aroldis Chapman has been better than we expected
