In life as in baseball, we spend so much time thinking about the future. We plan for it, we pin our hopes on it, we look to it to help us get through the often dully unsatisfying present. It’s for this reason that few things break our hearts more than a potential future being taken away. And if you’re a Sox fan of a certain age, there might be one name more than any other that breaks your heart as you contemplate all the futures that didn’t come: Juan Peña.
Juan Peña started all of two games for the Red Sox.