That Chapman’s contract includes a potential $250,000 in incentives based on innings, and not games finished, suggests he understands what his role will be.

Aroldis Chapman, who just signed to a one-year, $10.75 million contract with the Red Sox, choked his girlfriend in 2015 before firing eight gunshots in their garage while she ran outside to take care of her four-month old child.

A well-traveled veteran who was probably the best Yankee reliever not named Mariano Rivera for a point in time over the last two decades, former flamethrower Aroldis Chapman will wind down his MLB career about 200 miles north of the Bronx and take his talents to New York's bitter rivals in Boston.