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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He’d have loved Marcelo Mayer. We’re much better off for it. What makes someone good at building a baseball team? Is it scouting? Is it relationship-building? Is it financial muscle-flexing? Or it something unquantifiable, spiritual, rendering our General Managers nothing less than God-Kings of Sports Modernity? Lulz aside, I probably thought, to some degree, some …
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Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Emoji Lookout Eyes Galore They say there’s nothing new under the sun, but now we know that’s not true. We’ve not only seen Shohei Ohtani sign the biggest contract in the history of sports, but then also defer a mind-boggling amount of it to play for a mere …
Later sk8r. | Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images What’s going to happen after the Alex Verdugo deal? Who the shit knows? The offseason is still young but, with the Yankees having traded for Juan Soto, it already feels like it’s getting late for the Red Sox. Is that fair? Is it even true? …
Plus, John Schreiber has a new pitch Another day, another former colleague of Craig Breslow’s offering heaps of praise on the new Red Sox Chief Baseball Officer. This time it’s Will Venable. The former Sox bench coach and fellow Ivy Leaguer (he went to Princeton) has worked alongside Breslow for the past few years with …
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Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Keaton and Bob discussed the hiring of Craig Breslow as CBO, recapped the MLB playoffs to date, and reviewed some interesting Red Sox-related fan surveys. Welcome back to The Red Seat Podcast, episode number 299. This week, Keaton DeRocher and Bob Osgood discussed the recent hiring of Craig …
Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The Red Sox are leaderless no more Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Craig Breslow and he hails from the mediocre state of Connecticut. More specially, he comes from Trumbull, Connecticut, which famously interrupted a run of Taiwanese dominance to win the Little League …