With the Red Sox and Yankees set to square off in a best-of-three Wild Card series in the Bronx beginning Tuesday night, it feels like an appropriate time to revisit the noteworthy trade the two clubs made at the Winter Meetings last December. Just hours after pulling off a blockbuster five-player trade with the White … Continue reading "How did former Red Sox pitching prospect Elmer Rodriguez-Cruz fare in first season with Yankees organization?"
From Blogging the Red Sox
| 2 months ago
| 2 reads
So if you want to know what we guessed in wins it's here . I had them at 71. The group leaned into a bit higher but the winner in the clubhouse would be Matt with "high 60s" Not quite! We all lose by Price is Right rules. We'll spend the week going over the season (promise!) but the general tone of it was one of disappointment and now a bit of concern. The team is in the midst of a rebuild but also starting over with a new GM and new manager and that could easily ...
From Nationals Baseball
| 2 months ago
| 1 read
The boys of summer, the sun came out today, blah blah blah. Give me October baseball any day or night. A sharp chill in the ...
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From Surviving Grady
| 3 months ago
| 1 read
ok yes everything but nothing has gone right for this squad since early June. At one point they were 30-33, then went on a 20-53 stretch. The last 5-1 brings it up to 25-54 which is just over a 50 win pace for a season. Yikes. You can't blame the firings - Davey and Rizzo were gone in the middle of this. You can't blame the trade deadline. Yeah it made the team weaker but they aren't losing squeakers because of a weakened pen. Here are some 2nd half splits B...
From Nationals Baseball
| 3 months ago
| 1 read
The Red Sox signed outfielder Roman Anthony to an eight-year extension worth $130 million . Anthony, who turned 21 in May, made his debut on June 9. In 47 games, he's slashing .276/.392/.417 for an .809 OPS (126+ OPS, 5th best on the team). His .392 on-base is tops on the team. Molly Burkhardt (mlb.com) reports : The extension will begin with the 2026 season and includes escalators that could bring the overall value up to $230 million. The deal includes a 2034 club option for $30 millio...
From the joy of sox
| 4 months ago
| 0 reads
DAVEY OUT! RIZZO OUT! The Post if you have it What was the final straw? You'd have to assume the lifeless play in the past month+ 9-23 since the end of May. The team looks bad. The feeling around the team is bad. More tomorrow later tonight. Too much to wait until tomorrow but you know I got kids stuff to do right now Ed Note- internet down and my cell reception at my house is spotty so nothing more tonight Ed Note 2 - It's back!
From Nationals Baseball
| 5 months ago
| 2 reads
The Red Sox beat the Nationals 10-3 on Saturday afternoon, evening their record at 45-45. It was the franchise's 10,000th regular season victory. Boston is the second American League team and the tenth major league team to reach 10,000 wins. The franchise has 108 postseason wins. Here are the franchises with more than 5,000 wins, as of a few days ago. Also: The second-longest World Series championship drought is 56 years, held by the Brewers and Padres . . . . Weird.
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
| 1 read
Since May 29, the MFY have the worst record in the AL East: 13-19. Blue Jays 21 10 Rays 19 12 Orioles 18 13 Red Sox 16 14 Yankees 13 19 They were just swept by the now-in-first-place Blue Jays, who scored 36 runs in the four games. Toronto has not been in first place this "late" in a season since 2016 . OH SHIT . . . BUFFY GOT THE BROOM OUT ! And he waved it in the eminently punchable face of the pompously annoying Michael Kay...
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
| 2 reads
Wilyer Abreu led off the bottom of the fifth with an inside-the-park home run . Three innings later, he donged the first grand slam of his career. The Red Sox rode a seven-run first inning to a 13-6 victory. Abreu became only the sixth player to hit an inside-the-park home run and a grand slam in a game -- and the first player to do it in 67 years. The others : June 5, 1890 - Jocko Fields, Pittsburgh Burghers (Players League) July 4, 1923 (G1) - Everett Scott, Yankees August 4, 1930 - Charlie ...
From the joy of sox
| 5 months ago
| 1 read
The Red Sox have a 10-5 record in the month of June, with five of those 10 victories against the Yankees. June 7: Red Sox 10, MFY 7 June 8: Red Sox 11, MFY 7 June 13: Red Sox 2, MFY 1 (10) June 14: Red Sox 4, MFY 3 June 15: Red Sox 2, MFY 0 The 2-0 shutout on Father's Day turned the MFY bats into wet noodles. With subsequent losses to the Angels, 1-0 (11) and 4-0, the Yankees have not scored a run in their last 29 innings. As you can see below, that's a grand total of four runs in their last f...
From the joy of sox
| 6 months ago
| 3 reads
Fire Davey. The man can't help but blame the players and I don't want that type of guy leading this team. Maybe a veteran team can ignore him or maybe he wouldn't dare anger those guys, but this isn't a veteran team. It's a team of kids and they need someone to support and shield them. There are numerous reasons to fire the guy. His behavior this weekend pushes that all aside to get to number 1. Even if you landed on "well he won the series and changing the manage...
From Nationals Baseball
| 6 months ago
| 1 read
The Boston Red Sox traded Rafael Devers to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday in exchange for pitchers Jordan Hicks and Kyle Harrison and a pair of prospects (outfielder James Tibbs III and pitcher Jose Bello). The teams had been discussing a Devers deal for the past few weeks. Devers, in his ninth season with the club, had been the last member of the 2018 World Champions still in a Boston uniform. He's also in the second year of a 10-year, $313.5 million contract. Initial news of the trade st...
From the joy of sox
| 6 months ago
| 3 reads
As I look back over my 48 years as a Yankee fan — I can...
From Bronx Banter
| 6 months ago
| 3 reads
Don’t get me wrong: I love the new Monster-inspired Red Sox City Connect jerseys and my wallet’s about 400 bucks lighter after buying a few ...
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From Surviving Grady
| 7 months ago
| 2 reads
There are a few things you can count on in this life: death, taxes, and me posting this same exact story every year on Fenway ...
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From Surviving Grady
| 8 months ago
| 1 read
Manny takes whiz during game, Boggs drinks 100 beers on a plane, and other stuff that make the Red Sox the greatest team ever.
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From Surviving Grady
| 10 months ago
| 1 read
Well, we wanted to see Red Sox ownership shake things up as we head into spring training, and they delivered. Alex Bregman will be our ...
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From Surviving Grady
| 10 months ago
| 1 read
Watching Juan Soto have a truck filled with cash dumped all over him reminded of that time — December 13, 2000 to be precise — ...
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From Surviving Grady
| 12 months ago
| 1 read
I’m old enough to remember when the area around Fenway Park was pretty barren. There were a few nightclubs on Lansdowne. A McDonald’s and BK ...
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From Surviving Grady
| about 1 year ago
| 1 read
It’s October. Which is awesome. Because October Baseball is happening. And everyone knows that October Baseball (always capitalized) is the best baseball. And Red Sox ...
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From Surviving Grady
| about 1 year ago
| 1 read
Joe Castiglione’s voice was a gift. It was the sound of summer pouring out of your radio. It was hot dogs and sunshine and the ...
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From Surviving Grady
| about 1 year ago
| 1 read
Yesterday, Red Sox catcher Danny Jansen made baseball history, becoming the first player to play for both teams in one game. Jansen was at bat ...
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From Surviving Grady
| over 1 year ago
| 1 read
Chics - and wins - dig the long ball.
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From Off The Bench
| over 1 year ago
| 1 read
When I visited Winter Weekend at the MassMutual Center in Springfield, Mass. back in January, several fans I talked to said different versions of the same thing: the Boston Red Sox need to stop acting like a small market team. Since that weekend, the walls have been closing in on management. It’s not just the […]
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From Off The Bench
| over 1 year ago
| 1 read
It’s silly season right now with the trade deadline little over a week away. In that spirit I have decided to write a beautiful work of science-fiction in which I am handed the reigns of this franchise for the time between now and the March 8 deadline. I have, as all good and benevolent overlords do, tried to be reasonable in terms of what the trades look like on balance. I am sure that every fan of the teams involved will say that I’m a moron and a fool who has suffered some kind of head trau...
From Anaheim Calling
| almost 2 years ago
| 1 read