I’m relieved they did something. I’m optimistic by the end of Friday it’ll feel a little less like just something.
In trading for Washington’s Kyle Schwarber on Thursday night, some 17 hours before MLB’s 4 p.m. Friday trade deadline, Chaim Bloom took a small bit of frenzy from our final day of social media refreshing. Seemingly every other contender had supplemented itself already, and I clearly wasn’t the only one irrationally worried the Red Sox would somehow consider Chris Sale and Jarren Duran’s additions enough.
“I don’t think we’re panicking yet,” Xander Bogaerts told the Globe before Thursday’s whomping by Toronto, “but there’s obviously room for improvement.