Scattered thoughts following Steven Wright’s suspension

By now, most everyone likely knows that Steven Wright had failed a PED test over the offseason and was told this week that he’d be suspended for the first 80 games of the 2019 season. The news became public on Wednesday. The knuckleballer, expected to spend the entire season in Boston’s bullpen, isn’t one of the team’s stars but he was certainly pegged for an important role on a part of the roster surrounded by questions. It’s no small thing that he will miss the first half of the season, even if he’s far from the most important player they could have lost for such a big chunk of time. There’s a lot of ripple effects to this suspension and a lot of topics still rattling around my head, so I figured this is an appropriate time to bring back the ol’ “scattered thoughts” format to look at a number of different angles following this news.

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