September blew past us like a runaway Red Line train, scattering bits and pieces of another baseball season gone by: A crumpled up receipt from a deep-discount Nicky Delmonico jersey, a rainwater-soaked black rally towel, a few morsels of grilled onion.
But before the autumn leaves tumble to the asphalt, there are a few more takeaways from the end of this season. One of them is the better-than-expected showing of pitcher Touki Toussaint, signed amid a summer of roster shakeups that sent premier starters Lucas Giolito and Lance Lynn packing.
Toussaint, thus thrust into the rotation, threw 83 innings in 2023, his biggest workload, by far, since his 2018 debut.