NEW YORK — Two things that aren’t yet true, but might be soon:
Mookie Betts is the Most Valuable Player in the American League.
The 2018 Boston Red Sox are the greatest team in franchise history.
The former was all but assured Thursday night in the Bronx, when Betts produced another offensive tour de force with a four-hit, five-RBI night, his 30th home run the dagger in the Red Sox’s 11-6 victory over the New York Yankees for Boston’s unprecedented third consecutive American League East title.
The latter? That’s a trickier designation, requiring a comparison of eras and, for modern Red Sox fans, the sporting equivalent of asking which child is the favorite.
This much we do know: The Red Sox are 104-49. Two more victories, and they will produce the most wins in club history, surpassing the 1912 club that went 105-47.
And of course, there’s 11 other victories these Red Sox must have: Three in the AL Division Series — possibly against these same Yankees — and then four more each in the ALCS and World Series.
"This group certainly ranks up there, given what they’ve achieved," Red Sox president and CEO Sam Kennedy, a club employee for 17 years, told USA TODAY Sports, "but if there’s one common feeling among this group, it’s that history judges baseball teams by the postseason. We’re going to celebrate, I think, appropriately tonight and deservedly so, but they know they have a long way to go."
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