Red Sox News & Links: Craig Breslow Unlikely To Deal Top Prospects

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images The latest news from in and around Fenway The latest look at the behind the scenes workings of the Red Sox (courtesy of a lot of “Major League sources,” etc.) is in, and if you’re still hoping for something big to happen before Spring Training starts, we’ve got bad news. …

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Smash Or Pass: Any One Of The Mariners’ Young Starting Pitchers

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Can the Sox swing a deal for one of Seattle’s talented arms? Welcome back to Smash or Pass, a new offseason series in which we examine various free agents and trade targets to determine whether they make sense for the Red Sox. Today, we’re taking a look at four pitchers …

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Meet The New Guy: Cooper Criswell

Hey look! A free agent pitcher! Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Cooper Criswell, and while he sounds like one of those dudes with a comically fake name in a Japanese video game (Bobson Dugnutt says hello!), he’s apparently a real person with arms and legs and everything. The Red Sox …

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2023 In Review: Masatka Yoshida Was Good. Then He Wasn’t.

Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images 2023 In One Sentence It was the tale of two halves, one which was stellar, the other which was not. The Positives Signing a five-year $90 million dollar deal is going to come with expectations. This is especially true of Masataka Yoshida who, coming from NPB, had no track record …

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