Dice-K is scheduled to be activated and pitch tonight against the Mets. Of course, that means that a pitcher needs to be sent down to the minors to make room for him. Who should that be?
There’s really two options. Hunter Jones or Daniel Bard
I think we’re all impressed with how Bard has performed in [...]
March 28, 2009 – 10:28 am
OK, here we go. Opening day is imminent. The 25 man roster is set. So what should we be expecting? What should we be hoping. Here are some thoughts on every player.
Starting Pitchers
Josh Beckett
Man, this guy has a lot to prove. He’s a competitor. Probably a stubborn one, too. At this point in his [...]
October 27, 2008 – 12:39 pm
That photo never gets old, does it?
Let me get right to the point on this.
The Red Sox should resign Jason Varitek. For two years. For whatever dollars he wants for those two years (within reason).
Forget all the stuff about how he’s he can’t hit like he used to (he can’t) and how he [...]
August 6, 2008 – 10:34 am
Let’s get the obvious out of the way: Manny Ramirez would make the 2008 Red Sox a better team and give them a better chance of winning the championship this year.
More obvious stuff: Manny Ramirez was a major part of winning two titles this decade and without his involvement, there’s a good chance the sox [...]
92 Wins. That’s what sox are on pace to finish the season with. It is enough?
Hopefully what it means is the current team hasn’t put it all together yet to play their baseball of the season. And from what I’ve seen, I would say that’s exactly right. Let’s hope all the pieces fall together in [...]
My original title for this post was “The Manny Situation”. But Manny seems like the name of a guy that you would be buddies with. He’s the guy you call to meet you in a downtown bar when you get off work early on a Friday. On the Red Sox, Manny would be the borderline [...]
Sox are fading. No doubt about it.
Not having Papi around is most likely starting to catch up with them.
The bullpen continues to suck.
The Rays keep piling up the wins.
And, of course, sending this team on the road never helps.
So, here’s the glass half full approach to things
Sox are home at Fenway tonight. Masterson is getting [...]
Papi is hurt and on the DL. I mean, Papi is really hurt. There’s a good chance that Papi needs surgery on his wrist and doesn’t play the rest of the season. That’s the only scenario under which the name Barry Bonds was going to make it into a blog post title on this site [...]
Sox just designated Julian Tavarez for assignment. Most unique thing this means is chances of a pitcher rolling the ball to first place to get an out have pretty much dropped to zero.
But it also means Sox are going to give Craig Hansen a serious shot. Most obvious thing to do with Sean Casey coming [...]
The season is 40 games in. One quarter of the season is now behind us, giving us a large enough sample size to think about how to tweek the roster in order to solidify the Sox as the 2008 team to beat. Certainly, there’s nothing I’ve seen in the first 40 games that says “hit [...]
