The 2019 Major League Baseball season lastly is right here — are you able to imagine it? The Boston Red Sox will start their World Series title protection Thursday evening once they go to the Seattle Mariners in Game 1 of 162. Alex Cora’s crew enters the season as a respectable favourite, albeit one with no scarcity of query marks. NESN.com’s Dakota Randall, Ricky Doyle and Mike Cole took a crack at answering these questions in particular “Season Preview” version of the “NESN Red Sox Podcast.” Chris Sale’s extension, Blake Swihart’s doable ascension, under-the-radar names and X-factors — it’s all on the desk, in addition to your customary picks, predic... NESN.com