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 …
Photo by Mark Goldman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Are they turning the page? Happy Wednesday. I don’t really put any stock into anything said by members or former members of the trashy seating company but one is spreading a rumor that the Red Sox are looking to trade Trevor Story to unload more salary. Which…really …
Of the 13 pitchers the Red Sox drafted in 2022, no one pitched more innings in their first full professional season than 10th-round selection Isaac Coffey. Coffey, the 309th overall pick in the 2022 amateur draft out of Oral Roberts, received a modest signing bonus of $7,500 and made just two relief appearances in the …
The Sox have a second baseman Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Vaughn Grissom and he comes from suburban Orlando (aw, tough break, kid) where he played Robin to Riley Greene’s Batman on the high school baseball team. The Red Sox just acquired him in a one-to-one trade, sending Chris Sale, …
Photo by Matt Stone/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Plus, saying goodbye to Chris Sale and hello to Vaughn Grissom Well, that was a hectic couple of days! The Red Sox signed a new starter, traded one of the best pitchers of the modern era, and acquired someone who they hope will lock down second …
Red Sox infield prospect Eddinson Paulino proved to be one of the organization’s more durable minor-leaguers in 2023. Paulino, 21, spent this entire past season with High-A Greenville. The sweet-swinging left-handed hitter slashed a respectable .257/.338/.420 and led the affiliate in games played (115), hits (113), doubles (28), home runs (12, tied with two other …
Joe Nicholson-USA TODAY Sports Pax to the future Happy Thursday. Are you excited about a James Paxton reunion? How about Teoscar Hernandez? No? Now that the big names are finally off the market it should be time for the Red Sox to do…something. With any luck 2024 will see a flurry of activity all over …
If he bounces back, the Red Sox may have an ace. Who is and where did he come from? He’s Lucas Frost Giolito — The Italian Stallion! The Stracciatella Slinger! The Calabrian Chile Chief! — and he, somehow, comes to the Red Sox after spending 2023 with the Chicago White Sox, the Los Angeles Angels …
Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports The fanbase probably doesn’t want him back, but he might be a good fit. Welcome back to Smash or Pass, an 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 someone you’re …
Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images Plus, Triston Casas has a new ‘do. Okay, so they still haven’t gotten any decent pitching yet, but the Red Sox may be close to checking off something that was further down on the list: right-handed power. We’ve now heard multiple reports that the Sox are aggressively pursuing outfielder Teoscar …
Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Jake, Keaton, and Bob discuss some troubling vibes from ownership, the Teoscar Hernandez rumors, and give our New Year’s Resolutions as we head into 2024. Welcome back to The Red Seat Podcast, episode number 302. This week, Jake Devereaux, Keaton DeRocher, and Bob Osgood discuss the Yoshinobu Yamamoto …
Boston Red Sox Baseball Team The Red Sox are a professional baseball team based in Boston, Massachusetts. The Red Sox have a storied history, with many legendary players and moments. Some of the most notable players in the team’s history include Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski, David Ortiz, and Pedro Martinez 1. The team’s current roster includes stars such as Rafael Devers and Chris Sale 234. The Red Sox play …
Of all the Red Sox prospects who made it up to Double-A Portland this year, Chase Meidroth is far from the most highly touted. Still, the 22-year-old infielder made the most of his time with the Sea Dogs and ended the first full season of his professional career on an encouraging note. Meidroth, Boston’s fourth-round …
Tom Gorman/For The Patriot Ledger / USA TODAY NETWORK A Festivus for the rest of us Happy Saturday. Happy Festivus. Let’s air some grievances. Let’s do some feats of strength. Red Sox Nation to John Henry and Tom Werner: Talk about what you want and be good to one another.
For the second time this week, a former Red Sox pitcher elected to take his talents overseas for the 2024 season by signing with a team in the Korea Baseball Organization. Just days after left-hander Kyle Hart joined the NC Dinos, the Samsung Lions announced on Friday that they signed right-hander Connor Seabold to a …
For the second time in as many weeks, the Red Sox signed a veteran catcher to a minor-league contract. After adding two-time Gold Glove Award winner Roberto Perez last Wednesday, Boston inked Mark Kolozsvary to a similar minors pact on Friday, according to ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. Like Perez, Kolozsvary also received an invitation to major-league …
The Christmas Village collection of Fenway Park, with a Red Sox tavern and homemade Boston Strong ornament made by a friend, with dirt from Fenway Park’s outfield. Sports and fans: a tale as old as time Since time is standing still for Red Sox Nation this off-season, why don’t we time travel a little bit? …
Bob DeChiara-USA TODAY Sports And another one’s gone… TGIF. Well… News at ESPN: Japanese star Yoshinobu Yamamoto and the Los Angeles Dodgers are in agreement on a 12-year, $325 million contract, pushing their FA spending over $1 billion. Inside details of the deal, plus where the Mets and Yankees ended up, free at ESPN: https://t.co/yaVAbIMdiA …
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 …
Photo by Matthew West/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Rushing to 2024 Happy Thursday. Will the Red Sox do something today? Yamamoto, Snell, and Montgomery are all out there waiting for the market to settle. But it’s probably all on Yamamato at this point. Fingers crossed Breslow is ready to act when people are ready …
Tim Heitman-USA TODAY Sports The unheralded starter might be sneakily be a key piece of the 2024 rotation. 2023 In One Sentence Kutter Crawford is good. — Jake Roy (@Jake3Roy) March 26, 2023 2023 In Another Sentence Kutter Crawford once again found himself a key piece of the rotation in 2023 and responded by taking …
Yukihito Taguchi-USA TODAY Sports We’re going to get a decision soon. It seems like we’re reaching an endgame with respect to the Yoshinobu Yamamoto sweepstakes, and we have reports that the Sox have offered the Japanese ace a contract worth over $300 million. That’s well above most of the contract estimates we were seeing at …
Photo by Lucas Stevenson/WBCI/MLB Photos via Getty Images Here were go again Happy Monday. It’s very wet in Boston. Yoshinobu Yamamoto may have a monster offer on the table from the Red Sox but the Mets, Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants (at least) are all in the running. If he chooses Boston that’s an incredible boost …
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 …
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