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Boston Red Sox Continue Strange Offseason
While the Yankees have made dramatic improvements to their rotation, trading for Seattle’s Michael Pineda and signing former Dodger Hiroki Kuroda, the Red Sox have failed to make much of a splash this...
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Boston Red Sox: 3 Up and 3 Down
The 2011 season had plenty of drama in Boston as the Red Sox put together one of the most frustrating and uneven campaigns in the history of major league baseball. First came the horrific 2-10 start...
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Boston Red Sox 2012 Preview: Obstacles to Redemption
You can’t just forget the worst collapse in baseball history. Memory doesn’t work that way. The adage holds that those who do not learn from their past are doomed to repeat it, and if the Boston Red...
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MLB Preview: AL East all-position team
Evan Longoria Our 2012 MLB preview places the eyeball on the best players by position in each division. Find out how the AL East shakes out and don’t forget to check out our MLB Preview Center. Infield...
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Boston Red Sox 2012 Preview: Evaluating Lineup Decisions
As Opening Day nears, the Boston Red Sox have answered some outstanding questions– at least for the time being– and have solidified the rotation, bullpen, and lineup. Some of these choices happened...
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Boston Red Sox suffer bullpen letdown to open season
The Red Sox had a number of potential concerns coming into 2012, including a bullpen bereft of it most reliable arms. With former closer Jonathan Papelbon now a Philly and Daniel Bard moved into the...
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Boston Red Sox go from bad to worse as Ellsbury goes down
Ellsbury's shoulder injury will likely keep him sidelined for a minimum of six weeks (Tlumacki/ Boston Globe) Sometimes, hard slides just aren’t worth the risk. Efforts to disrupt a defender, whether...
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Boston Red Sox should consider trading Youkilis
If you’ve been tuning in to Boston-area sports you’ve probably come across the first real drama of the year in the Red Sox clubhouse. New manager Bobby Valentine decided to invite controversy to the...
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Boston Red Sox: Reacting to Fenway’s centennial
100 years of history, tradition, heritage, and discomfort Much has been made in recent days of Fenway Park’s 100th birthday. It is inarguably an impressive feat for any venue to be able to survive for...
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Boston Red Sox: Injuries, slow starts feel like status quo
The Red Sox’s 2010 season was gutted by serious injuries to key players. 2011′s awful April was tough to take, though it seemed unusual at the time. But given the current repeat performance being...
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Boston Red Sox: Time for major changes in Beantown
I was all set to write a scathing rebuke of Josh Beckett’s latest antics when I saw that Boston.com had beaten me to the punch. Eric Wilbur’s best line in the post is also deadly accurate: “Ben...
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Boston Red Sox: Hurling woes, not injuries, dominate first quarter of season
Every time we turn around another Red Sox position player has gone down to injury. It would be comical if not for the fact that it has necessitated such extreme solutions. Adrian Gonzalez playing...
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Boston Red Sox nab value, address needs in surprising draft
Heading into yesterday’s MLB draft, there was little chance that a highly ranked shortstop from Arizona State would still be on the board by the time Boston’s first pick came around. And yet, in a day...
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Boston Red Sox continue to mishandle Bard
A year ago, the Red Sox boasted one of the AL’s better set-up men. Daniel Bard tossed 73 innings in 2001, posting a nice 3.33 ERA with outstanding peripherals that included a razor thin 0.96 WHIP and...
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Boston Red Sox show more suspect management with Kevin Youkilis trade
Months ago I talked about the possibility of Kevin Youkilis being traded. It was a move that the team should have made in the offseason when such things are easier to explain and easier to bear....
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Boston Red Sox Trade Rumors: Expect a Quiet Summer
Those expecting a flurry of trade activity in Boston are likely to be disappointed as the July 31st deadline nears. While the team’s 9.5 game deficit in the AL East led some to conclude that the Sox...
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Boston Red Sox: Drama, disappointing play have ruined 2012
Johnny Pesky died this week. He was 92 years old. Pesky was a Red Sox legend and a fixture in the team’s dugout for decades. He had a fair/ foul pole named after him. His visage was as symbolic of...
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Boston Red Sox Rumors: What’s next for 2013?
Boston’s acquisition of Victorino is the team’s biggest move thus far (Getty/ Dunn) As winter meetings rolled around, the Boston Red Sox were busy making good on GM Ben Cherington’s pledge to spend...
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Boston Red Sox reality doesn’t match media spin
By adding Ryan Dempster, the Boston Red Sox continued their lackluster offseason (CBS Sports photo) The latest Herald piece about the Boston Red Sox paints a positive, though not particularly...
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Boston Red Sox continue confusing offseason
Today the Boston Red Sox finalized their one-year, $9.5M deal with shortstop Stephen Drew. Forgetting for a moment the painful memories dredged up by having a Drew on the roster, this is yet another...
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