Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Cubs beat Dodgers to a free agent! Happy Wednesday. Shota Imanaga Cubs deal is complicated and includes player/team options and escalators that could boost it to way up to $80M. Guarantee suggested to be somewhere around $30M for two years by @JimBowdenGM @jonmorosi 1st said $15M/year …
So long to an ace. Saying goodbye is hard. So let’s raise a glass, cue up The Body Of An American, and do it together. It’s the Over The Monster Irish Wake in celebration of Chris Sale. Chris Sale, The Fragile Competitor Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Chris Sale, you big …
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Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images This week’s Patriots mailbag answers questions about tanking, Mac Jones’ future, and more. On the NFL Network broadcast last Sunday night, Kurt Warner relayed a message from New England Patriots cornerback Jonathan Jones: “If we’re gonna go home, we want to take everyone with us.” It …
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Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The Patriots will travel to Highmark Stadium in Week 17. The New England Patriots are riding an active one-game winning streak over the Buffalo Bills into the two teams’ meeting on New Year’s Eve. Despite beating their division rivals 29-25 in Week 7, however, the two …
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Photo by Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images The first injury report ahead of Sunday’s 1 p.m. ET kickoff at Gillette Stadium. As the New England Patriots headed back to the practice fields following the mini bye, so did the team’s receiving leader. Rookie wideout Demario Douglas, standing with 410 yards through 36 …
Which pitching prospect within the Red Sox organization possesses the best control? According to one prominent publication, it’s Hunter Dobbins. The Boston Globe’s Alex Speier, who compiles the Red Sox’ organizational rankings for Baseball America, recently identified Dobbins as having the best control of any Boston pitching prospect heading into 2024. Dobbins ended the 2023 …
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Photo by Stan Grossfeld/The Boston Globe via Getty Images FSG need to think big It’s a day that ends in Y, so that means we have find out another candidate has dropped out of the Boston Red Sox search for a GM due to “family considerations”. Whatever THAT means. You want to know what I’ve …
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Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Throwback to winter Happy Thursday. There is no baseball today. The Red Sox are presumably interviewing replacements for Chaim Bloom. The Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Philadelphia Phillies won their Wild Card rounds and will advance to the AL and NL Division Series. With …
Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Here’s a gamethread. I’m so fucking tired, man. Anyway, here’s a gamethread. Keep the Miller discussion in it’s own thread unless he gets released, please.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Why not? A Public Skate on the weekend?! What brave new reality are we living in? With another Prospects Challenge game on tap, it seemed like it’d be worth it to set up another Open Thread for you fine folks to use. Given that Friday’s game …