Major League Baseball has changed in many ways since Andrew McCutchen’s June 4, 2009 debut. The Pittsburgh Pirates slugger likes many of those changes, including the balanced schedule which allows teams to play all 29 opponents each year.

“I like it from the standpoint that fans get to see players who they aren’t used to seeing and teams they don’t normally see, because my first time ever playing in Boston, I believe, was in 2017,” he told the Herald as he stood by the visitors’ dugout, gazing out at the emerald expanse. “That was my first time playing here and by then I had played for quite some time leading up to that moment.”

McCutchen played 1,191 regular-season games, all with the Pirates, before he finally got to play at Fenway on Opening Day ‘17.

“It was really green” was his ini

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