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Every spring, at 0-0 before Opening Day, hope is the common denominator for all baseball teams. Hope that this will be the year. But the Red Sox didn’t start with reasonable expectations of going all the way in 2024. No doubt, there was hope in corners of Sox Nation, but Vegas oddsmakers back in February […] The post Sox season ends where it began appeared first on RSNStats .
My source inside the Vikings organization tell me the Vikings saved some money this week by not needing to have Sam Darnold's jersey laundered. Look, I watched a lot of Sam Darnold when he played for the Jets. I liked him coming out of college and would always tell my Giants fans friends that he would be a better quarterback than Daniel Jones. He has a strong and accurate arm when he can comfortably step into throws, When he's under pressure is when it all falls apart and the interceptions and...
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 ... The post Saying Goodbye to Joe Castiglione appeared first on Surviving Grady .
Among his many feats this year, Jarren Duran notched his first career 20/20 season, with 21 home runs and 34 stolen bases as of this writing. It is the first 20/20 Boston campaign since Mookie Betts in 2018 (32 home runs, 30 stolen bases). Duran is one of 19 Major Leaguers to reach a 20/20 […] The post Duran Sees 20/20 appeared first on RSNStats .
For a third straight year the Red Sox have been eliminated from postseason play. It happened Wednesday with a loss in the team’s final road game of the season. Boston was essentially out of the race much earlier, of course, in large measure due to a bizarrely long late-season offensive slump that kept them from […] The post Sox Eliminated, Again appeared first on RSNStats .
Photo by Michael Regan/Getty Images In this episode, Dan Crawford from Hammyend.com , and myself have an extensive discussion on the Transfer Window for Fulham. We started by debating the decision to sell Jay Stansfield, That was followed up by us sharing our thoughts on losing Palhinha. To finish up the first half of the show, we discussed the other players who have left Fulham. The second half of the show was about the players who have joined Fulham this season. You will listen to t...
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 ... The post Danny Jansen: the new Rick Aguilera? appeared first on Surviving Grady .
This time of year, as the runway of games left dwindles down, you especially rue the near-misses, the games that looked like wins but turned into losses. That was the case earlier this week when the Red Sox let a three-game sweep of the Rangers slip away in a back-and-forth affair that ended in a […] The post Close Shaves appeared first on RSNStats .
The Red Sox have announced their Spring Training slate for next season with the annual kickoff against the Northeastern University Huskies on Friday, February 21 at JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida. The official spring slate, a total of 30 games, begins the next day with a road game against the Rays in Port Charlotte. […] The post Spring Ahead To 2025 appeared first on RSNStats .
After getting two wins in the series, the Red Sox had a chance to win all three games against the Rangers, but missed out on Wednesday, dropping the final game 9-7 in ten innings. It was another wasted starting effort for the Sox and particularly for Tanner Houck, who allowed two earned runs over 6.2 […] The post Red Sox Miss Chance at Sweep appeared first on RSNStats .
We are a little less than a month away from the home stretch of the MLB season, and yet, there is no conspicuous World Series front-runner. This year’s parity is more apparent than in recent years, which is saying something for a league that typically presents more unpredictability than any other major North American sport. […] The post These Two World Series Longshots Will Surprise You appeared first on Off The Bench .
With a two-run, go-ahead blast for the American League, Red Sox outfielder Jarren Duran earned Most Valuable Player honors at the All-Star Game. Duran, playing in his first-ever ASG, is just the fifth Sox player to be named MVP joining Hall of Famers Carl Yastrzemski (1970), Pedro Martinez (1999), as well as Roger Clemens (1986) […] The post Duran Named All-Star Game MVP appeared first on RSNStats .
Kevin Neri/Statesman Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK The Oregon State Baseball team got off to a slow start at the Pac-12 tournament, dropping the opener to freshman Joey Volchko and a Stanford club that got hot in pool play. That was enough to put the Beavers on the back foot of tiebreaker math and led to an early flight back to Corvallis. Fortunately, the regular season resume was enough for OSU to earn the #15 overall national seed in the tournament that truly matters, and the Beavers wi...
Photo by Zac BonDurant/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images Arizona State couldn’t overcome the big inning in one-run loss SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.— In the final Pac-12 baseball tournament in the conference’s history, Arizona State (32-24, 17-13 Pac-12) looked to capture the opener against a Stanford (20-32, 11-19 Pac-12) a team whom they swept just two weeks ago for the first time at Sunken Diamond since 2016. Winners of 16 of their last 20 games, head coach Willie Bloomquist had the Devils trend...
Photo by Katharine Lotze/Getty Images The regular season title passed over Brady Kasper’s head in the desert night on Sunday, but the Beavers have a chance to take home a title and potentially a top 8 national seed in the NCAA Tournament that would keep them in Corvallis for the first two rounds. That opportunity starts for OSU at 10:00 AM PT on Wednesday as they start pool play in the third and final iteration of the Pac-12 Baseball Tournament. The games are kicking off as we speak thi...
As you’re reading Off the Bench Baseball, I surely don’t need to tell you who or what Shohei Ohtani is. Yet, for clarifications sake, let’s take a moment to be sure we’re all starting the following discussion on the same page: Coming into the 2024 season, the 29-year-old Ohtani has a Rookie of the Year […] The post Shohei Ohtani: The Best is Yet to Come appeared first on Off The Bench .
Photo by Amanda Loman/Getty Images Series Recap Thursday & Friday - The Beavers did everything they needed to do in the first two games, blowing out the Wildcats to the tune of 25-3 over Friday and Saturday to secure the series. You can read write ups of Thursday’s game here , and Friday’s game here . Those results set up the series finale as a winner-take-all matchup for the Pac-12 regular season title. Saturday - That matchup lived up to the billing on Saturday. Arizona struck first...
Photo by Katharine Lotze/Getty Images Oregon State’s hitting and pitching both put in dominant games in one of the Beavers biggest wins of the season. Thursday’s 9-2 win over the Wildcats was a good way for Oregon State , but no one would have been surprised if Arizona bounced back in game 2 to make the series interesting. That didn’t happen Friday night, as Oregon State exploited an error prone Arizona team for one of their biggest blowouts of the season. The 16-1 win moves the Beavers 4...
On May 16, 2024, Diamond Sports, LLC, doing business as Rimas Sports, initiated a federal lawsuit against the Major League Baseball Players Association in the U.S. District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. A Verified Complaint and Motion for Temporary Restraining Order (TRO)/Preliminary Injunction were filed. One day later, the Court denied the request […]
Major League Baseball is trumpeting an uptick in attendance at baseball games so far this season, with average attendance reaching 26,927 per game through the end of April. It’s the best mark to that point in the season since 2017 and is a modest 0.9% uptick over 2023. The Dodgers led baseball in April with […] The post Attendance Up Across MLB appeared first on RSNStats .
The complicated life of Pete Rose is presented in great detail by author Keith O’Brien in his recently-released book, Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball. O’Brien crafts a compelling narrative through extensive research, using decades of newspaper articles, federal court documents, FBI files, MLB’s 1989 […] The post Brrok Review – “Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball” appeared first on Off The Ben...
Larry Lucchino, the former president of the Red Sox (2002-15), died on Tuesday at age 78. Lucchino, who once said he hoped his legacy would be that he “made a difference in the cities he lived in,” certainly lived up the claim. Across baseball tributes flowed in for the hard-charging baseball executive. So significant, it […] The post RIP Larry Lucchino appeared first on RSNStats .
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 […] The post Boston Red Sox Offseason Grade appeared first on Off The Bench .
The Red Sox opened the 2024 regular season with a 10-game, west coast road trip starting with four games at the Seattle Mariners. After a win on Opening Day, they lost the next two games, but managed an Easter Sunday victory for a series split. Boston starting pitching was the highlight of the opening series. […] The post Red Sox Split Opening Series appeared first on RSNStats .
Coming off an eighth consecutive losing season, plus the loss of Shohei Ohtani to free agency, the Los Angeles Angels have become an afterthought in Major League Baseball. They’re projected to win 78 games by FanGraphs, which would be a ninth straight season finishing with a losing record and a tenth straight season without making […] The post The Mike Trout WAR Watch appeared first on Off The Bench .