Photo by Megan Briggs/Getty Images Signing Shota Imanaga would not have been without risk. But that’s true of literally every baseball player. There are plenty of reasons why it made sense to pass on Shota Imanaga, even at the surprisingly low number he ended up agreeing to when he signed with the Chicago Cubs. Before …
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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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Red Sox raise season ticket prices, Cubs do the opposite The Boston Red Sox have raised the price of tickets, and the Chicago Cubs have lowered the price of tickets. This is a tale of two baseball cities with similar franchises, history, and costs, and a divergence in how to approach season-ticket holders. Neither franchise …
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