Boston Red Sox 2019 Report Cards: Reliever Ryan Brasier

Evaluating the 2019 season of Boston Red Sox reliever Ryan Brasier and assigning a grade based on how his production lived up to expectations.

When the Red Sox were marching through the postseason in 2018 a key component of their bullpen was Ryan Brasier. He made his major league debut in 2013 with Anaheim but has spent most of his career in the minors as well as playing internationally. His signing came out of nowhere but would soon pay off with a World Series championship.

The calendar would then flip to 2019 and things weren’t as pretty as they year just a year before. Despite the Red Sox doing everything in their power to not assign the closer title to any single pitcher, Brasier was the…