But Can He Pitch?
Is Craig Breslow being fired? Better not tell you now. Is Boston selling? Reply hazy, try again. Is Chad Tracy going to lose the interim title? Outlook not so good. But the Texas Rangers are in town for three games andm like Boston, they’re struggling. Unlike Boston, that means staying at .500 rather than going […]
It was a rough day on the farm on Thursday, with the top four Red Sox affiliates generating zero wins. The FCL Red Sox in the Rookie League did win a game 26-6, though, and Franklin Primera went 4-for-5 with a homer and six RBI. The 18-year-old is slashing .448/.587/.731 in 22 games with five […]
Whether you consider it officially “summer” yet or not, tonight marks the start of a six-game summer homestand, which is normally something that we should be excited about as Red Sox fans. The Texas Rangers (34-34) and the Toronto Blue Jays (33-36) come to town, and personally, I’m most excited about the outstanding pitching matchups: […]
If sitting 12 games under .500 in mid-June with your two best players injured isn’t a sign to sell at the trade deadline, I’m not sure what is. The Red Sox have to pick a lane to properly run the trade deadline on Aug. 3. That’s something Boston has failed to do in each of […]
Late last August, Roman Anthony stormed into Yankee Stadium for the first time in his career and announced his presence in the most unmistakable manner possible: The bomb, the bat flip, the body language; all there for the world to witness. In the moment, it felt less like a baseball game and more like a […]
Worcester: L, 2-5 (BOX SCORE) Walks caught up to Eduardo Rivera very quickly, after allowing a home run to Red Wings (Nationals AAA) and 2024 10th overall draft pick Seaver King with just one out in the game. Before long, he had walked four and allowed five runs, although four of those came as a […]
Masataka Yoshida is in the fourth year of the five-year, $90 million contract with the Red Sox. Perhaps he and the money he’s owed will get moved as part of a larger transaction in the next few weeks, but either way, it feels like we’re approaching a point where a decision has to be made […]
Today marks the day Brayan Bello takes the mound after his demotion to Triple-A Worcester. So the obvious question is, how will he do? Does he dominate minor league hitters because his stuff’s still there and the pressure of a major league game is off? Does he get rocked because he doesn’t want to be […]
Garrett Crochet is not coming to save the Red Sox season. Or at least he isn’t any time soon. After initially saying that his lat strain was so minor that he didn’t even want to call it a setback, the Red Sox ace now says that it “is a lot worse than what we thought” […]
The Red Sox showed exactly why the lineup just hasn’t been good enough all season long. The group made the wrong kind of history in Wednesday’s matinee loss as the Tampa Bay Rays completed the sweep. Boston is 12 games under .500 as the season swirls further away from the team’s control. Here’s three takeaways […]
TV: NESN First Pitch: 1:10 pm. ET The Red Sox dropped a pair of low-scoring games in Boston’s first series at Tropicana Field since 2024. Now 11 games under .500 for the first time in six seasons, the Red Sox try to salvage the matinee finale before returning to Fenway Park. Jake Bennett takes the […]
Worcester: W, 6-5 (F/10) (BOX SCORE) For the first part of this game in Rochester (Nationals AAA), the WooSox suffered from a common problem the Red Sox deal with on almost a daily basis; great starting pitching, no runs. Jack Anderson was nearly lights out through the sixth, but the WooSox didn’t provide any run […]
Kyle Harrison got rocked Monday night in Las Vegas in a venue where the dimensions resemble your local Little League park, but the stats count nonetheless. Traded by the Red Sox to the Brewers for Caleb Durbin this offseason, the terrible outing — 8 ER in 2.1 IP — boosted his ERA by more than […]
The All-Star Game is just weeks away and the first round of voting is underway. With the Red Sox sitting at 11 games under .500 for the first time since 2020, who is going to represent this team in Philadelphia? For our purposes here we’re going to take out the obvious hail Mary: Aroldis Chapman. […]
Aroldis Chapman was warming up in the top of the ninth inning with the Red Sox down a run just in case he was needed for the bottom half of the frame; but with the way this offense has performed all season, that felt like ownership drawing up World Series parade routes for the fall, […]
Before the last two games, the Red Sox actually had a little thing going on the road where they won 10 out of 13 away from Fenway Park. After loses to the Yankees and Rays on Sunday and Monday though, they need to win tonight to keep any chance of a winning road trip alive. […]
The Boston Red Sox have gotten everything they could have dreamed of when acquiring Willson Contreras. I don’t think that is breaking news to anyone. Not only does he seem to be the only guy who gives a shit, but he has stabilized a position that became a real issue over the last few seasons. […]
Is this the dreaded kiss of death disguised as a vote of confidence? That’s how many people classify it whenever an ownership group publicly states that they’re not going to fire a GM/CBO/PBO/manager/whatever. But that hasn’t always been true in the case of the Red Sox, as the firings of both Alex Cora and Dave […]
Carlos Narvaez appeared in 112 games at catcher last season, tallying 15 home runs and playing solid defense, though he’s struggled at the dish this season and has taken a back seat to Gasper since Chad Tracy took over. He’s 27 years old and still pre-arbitration, meaning he’s under team control for the foreseeable future. […]
Yanno, for a game in which the Sox only had five baserunners, made opener Ian Seymour look like Clayton Viola-Koufax for four (!) innings, Tampa couldn’t miss on challenges, and started with a leadoff home run by Yandy Diaz, tonight’s 3-1 loss wasn’t all that bad imho. Connelly Early pitched well and Marcelo Mayer absolutely […]
Blech. Yesterday’s bullpen blowup was so bad, the Red Sox traveled to visit first-place Tampa Bay, against whom they probably won’t have a lead to squander. That’s some chess strategy right there. Speaking of which, as a guy who plays a lot of online chess, I hate the “4D chess” analogy. It’s plenty hard enough […]
The Red Sox had fewer than two innings to go Sunday afternoon while tied 1-1 and the game ended in a 6-1 loss. A split against the Yankees isn’t the worst possible outcome. Losing two of three would have been worse and the extra day of rest for Payton Tolle is, if anything, a boon. […]
Worcester: W, 5-3 (BOX SCORE) If Triple-A baseball borrowed hockey’s “three stars of the game”, the WooSox’s pick for first star in the finale against Buffalo (Blue Jays AAA) would be easy. They had two extra-base hits; both came from lead-off guy Braiden Ward, and one of those doubles drove Tsung-Che Cheng in to make […]
I’m officially giving up on trying to understand the 2026 version of Brayan Bello. It’s Monday Morning Brushback time, y’all, I guess? I dunno, this is another unorthodox MMBB, but this is what I feel in my heart. This is not the first time this season that I’ve gone into the weekend looking to write […]
Hello and happy Monday, folks—and happy World Cup kickoff week, too. The tournament starts on Thursday, but the Red Sox’s series in St. Pete against the Tampa Bay Rays starts tonight at 6:40 p.m. EST. Toeing the rubber for Boston will be left-hander Connelly Early, who’s been by-and-large very good in 2026 in spite of […]