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This year,
FenwayNation is inaugurating two
new awards—which will be given out whenever the Red Sox make the post-season. The awards are:
The FenwayNation Post-Season Pitcher Of The Year and
The FenwayNation Post-Season Position Player Of The Year. On the position player side, we have named
Steve Pearce as our
2018 Post-Season Position Player of The Year. Keep in mind that the awards are for the
entire post-season, not just the
World Series. Yet, despite Pearce's other-worldly performance in
The Fall Classic, his
overall post-season numbers were pretty spectacular. In his 13 post-season games, Pearce hit .289—with
four home runs (leading the team) and eleven RBIs. His OPS in October was also a team-leading 1.083. In fact, he was the
only member of the Red Sox to deliver a post-season OPS over 1.0. While
J.D.Martinez hit for a better overall average, and drove in three more runs than Pearce, the first-baseman had a higher on-base percentage and a higher slugging percentage than Martinez. While several players (in
addition to Martinez) made extraordinary contributions in
individual post-season series (
Jackie Bradley, Jr.,
Brock Holt,
Mitch Moreland,
Andrew Benintendi), Pearce was the
most consistent position player across
all post-season games. Thus, we pass on our congratulations to Steve for being named our
FenwayNation Post-Season Position Player Of The Year For 2018.
