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- Updated: May 5, 2016
CHICAGO — There’s never been a day in baseball like Thursday in Chicago.
It marked the first time ever that four first-place teams played games in the same city on the same day.
And if that wasn’t enough of a twist, let’s add this for the degree of difficulty.
Not only were there four first-place teams within Chicago city limits at the same time but two of them were largely the handiwork of one executive.
Welcome to Theofest, 2016.
With the final game of a three-game Red Sox-White Sox series overlapping the opener of a four-game Nationals-Cubs series, Theo Epstein’s past bumped into his present.
While Epstein is working to make history in Chicago, his legacy remains front and center in Boston. His organization skills and feel for talent (both with scouts and players) is difference-making, and it shows both in big decisions — think Kris Bryant and Dustin Pedroia — and little ones.
Consider the impact of Travis Shaw, the versatile left-handed hitter who moved over from first base to play third for the Red Sox after Pablo Sandoval arrived in Florida overweight and with a bad shoulder. He’s hitting .302 with three homers and an .874 OPS in 27 games.
While Epstein was in charge, the Red Sox drafted Shaw twice — first out of his Ohio high school in …
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