The Red Sox are officially playoff bound thanks to a historic turnaround from a slow start to the season and a redirection under interim and now full-time manager Chad Tracy. The fact that Tracy made history – and even more impressively family history – is still pretty mind-boggling, even though I wrote about it on May 1.
The blueprint and context was there as Chad’s father, Jim Tracy, took over as the manager of the Rockies in May 2009 after Colorado fired Clint Hurdle. The Rockies took off immediately with a 21-7 record in June on the way to a franchise-record 92 wins and a playoff berth. Tracy won National League Manager of the Year in a…
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