Willson Contreras provided one of the few good Red Sox swings in this embarrassing showing against the Yankees and then took another postgame whack at his team.
The first-year Red Sox slugger seemingly took aim at the organization’s analytics philosophy after their 9-2 Game 2 loss to the Yankees in a wild-card sweep.
“There’s a lot of things to get better at in each area of the game. If you watch the game, we have to get better at the game running, we have to get better at taking care of the stealers, we have to do a lot of different stuff,” said Contreras, who homered off Max Fried in the sixth inning. “It’s not enough when you have talent, or you have data, or you have computers telling you what to do, because this is baseball.
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