Do yo have a link to a similar article following the 2023 season? I was wondering if there is something about players like Friedl that make them easier to defend? Or maybe the phrase is more predictable to defend?

I think he mentioned it briefly, but seemed rude to ask much. We were sitting in the highest row in the upper deck of Busch in leftfield, on comped Red Sox seats. I figured if a guy that was on the mound the last time the Sox were in the series was in the same place as me how could I complain?

Game 3 of the 2004 World Series I sat next to Al Nipper, who was a minor league pitching coach for Boston at the time. He was Tony Muser's last pitching coach and Tony Pena's first pitching coach with the Royals, so he had some good stories about working with both of them.