Last week, we learned that Theo Epstein is coming to Fenway Sports Group in an advisory role, ostensibly for all of the franchises in the portfolio but specifically, as reports have recently surfaced, for a Red Sox team that has been neglected by its owners for going on five years now. Today, we learned that the 2024 Red Sox will be featured on an in-season Netflix reality show, with Major League Baseball following the lead of basically every other major sport into the annual docuseries business.
Both of these moves are obvious gambits designed to win back fans in the absence of a “full-throttle” approach to winning on the field, and.