Red Sox’ 37-year-old closer Aroldis Chapman is defying baseball logic by putting up video-game numbers this season originally appeared on The Sporting News Usually when a pitcher gets older, the arm starts to slow down, and they get tired quicker. Then they start getting worse and worse stats until they decide to hang it up and call it a career.

Boston Red Sox closer Aroldis Chapman is no stranger to dominating in the ninth inning.

One of the first stories I wrote for the Globe was about the Red Sox giving a tryout to a mysterious lefthanded fireballer from Cuba named Aroldis Chapman in 2009. Chapman was 21 at the time and had established residence in Andorra after defecting from Cuba during a tournament in the Netherlands.