COMMENTARY
As it turns out, the eventual successor to Terry Francona probably should have been the guy who stole that base once upon a time and changed everything.
Dave Roberts, author of arguably the most famous steal in baseball history, one that surely requires no further elaboration for this audience, is doing rather well in his post-playing career.
In his rookie season as the manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers — the franchise from which the Red Sox acquired him in a fateful afterthought of a trade in 2004 — he was named the 2016 National League manager of the year.