Red Sox $140M Player’s Defense Is Quietly Becoming a Liability

Red Sox $140M Player’s Defense Is Quietly Becoming a Liability

In the top of the second inning against the last-place Colorado Rockies, Trevor Story fired an errant throw on a routine grounder off the bat of Thairo Estrada. What should’ve been the first out of the inning became a fielding error, and boosted the Rockies’ win probability by 6.4%. It wasn’t a hard-hit ball (just 79.2 mph off the bat) or a challenging play. It was a routine grounder with a routine throw that sailed, and it encapsulated a …