Alex Cora on Red Sox closer’s dominant season: ‘It wasn’t a fluke’

Catching up with Red Sox fireballer Aroldis Chapman, who’s dreaming of a third World Series ring - The Boston Globe

By every modern measure Chapman is the hardest-throwing MLB pitcher the game has seen.

Red Sox’ Aroldis Chapman had career year at 37. Can he be as good or better this season?

FORT MYERS, Fla. — At the age of 37, in his 16th year in the big leagues, a case could be made that Aroldis Chapman’s 2025 season was the best of his career.

Alex Cora on Red Sox closer’s dominant season: ‘It wasn’t a fluke’

Aroldis Chapman has always been regarded as one of the most overpowering pitchers to ever set foot on a baseball diamond, but command hasn’t always been his calling card. Yet early in spring training last year something clicked, and Chapman went on to enjoy one of the best seasons of his 17-year career. Now, as Alex Cora tells it, the veteran left-hander looks every bit as dialed in as he did this time a year ago. “You can see right now it wasn’…