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What we learned about the Red Sox at the trade deadline

The 2010 trade deadline has come and gone.  While there were no major deals made by the Theo Epstein braintrust, the Red Sox still made some interesting moves.  Here are some insights and thoughts on those. Addition by subtraction Thank goodness Ramon Ramirez is gone.  The guy was useless this year.  He had to go [...]

The price for Toronto’s Scott Downs is way too high

According a number of baseball trade deadline rumor reports, like this one from the New York Post,Toronto is asking the Red Sox for either Casey Kelly or Jose Igelesias in a trade for set up man Scott Downs That’s way too much for a set up man.  Yes, the Sox bullpen is a mess other [...]

That. Was. Awesome!!!!

I thought of a lot of titles for this post.  In the end “That was awesome!” was the best way to describe the 3 game spanking the Red Sox put on the Yankees this past weekend.  Simply put, it was the best set of Sox-Yankees’ games (from a Sox fan perspective) since the comeback in [...]

What would you give up for CC Sabathia?

It’s that time of the year.  July.  Time talk trades. The deadline is at the end of the month and the big name that will get tons of media attention is CC Sabathia of the Cleveland Indians. Let’s assume that trading for him means being able to sign him to a long-term contract.  No short [...]