New Red Sox manager
Alex Cora revealed to
WEEI's
Rob Bradford that
Mookie Betts will be the team's lead-off hitter in 2018. In 2017, Betts was at the top of the lineup
exactly half the time—81 games—hitting 16 HRs and compiling an .815 OPS. Analyzing Betts' impact, Cora stated,
"I feel Mookie is athletic enough, he has extra-base power and he can be aggressive enough in the strike zone to put a good swing on right away and make the game 1-0, or have a man on second with no outs." Indeed.
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