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Red Sox Minor Lines: Brady Tygart dominates in his return to Greenville
Worcester Red Sox 10, Lehigh Valley IronPigs 4 (BOX) The Woo Sox kept rolling on Thursday against the IronPigs (PHI) in a matinee game. The lineup was pounding the ball from top to bottom, with Nathan Hickey’s three hits leading the way, followed by two hit efforts from Allan Castro and Vinny Capra. Capra’s two-run […]
Red Sox look to win 10th straight series against visiting Athletics
Nine straight series wins was just what the doctor ordered. And every Red Sox fan. They’re pitching, hitting homers, playing defense. They look like the best team in baseball. And for the last month or so, they’ve been the best. They won three of four against the Athletics in Sacramento, possibly hindered by the sun […]
Red Sox News & Links: Garrett Crochet to the bullpen?
Before the trade deadline, I asked who the Red Sox shortstop would be in the month of September. Nine days later, we only have a slightly clearer idea of that answer. Andruw Monasterio is hardly a wizard with the glove, but he has put up an OPS above .900 over the last 13 games, all […]
Is 2026 the most memorable Red Sox season of all-time?
I don’t know how to explain the 2026 Red Sox and I don’t know anyone else who does. As the recent A’s series showed us, even when they’re bad, they’re somehow good. They simply cannot lose right now, which isn’t how baseball is supposed to work, or has ever worked for as long as I’ve […]
Red Sox secure stunning walk-off victory in marathon vs. White Sox
I can’t believe they did it again… The Red Sox pushed their winning streak to eight games with a 12-11 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday, overcoming five separate deficits to secure their third walk-off victory of the season in the 13th inning at Fenway Park. Boston received contributions from almost every single […]
Red Sox looking for third straight sweep against White Sox
TV: NESNFirst Pitch: 7:10 p.m. ETLocation: Fenway Park The Red Sox could secure their third straight series sweep with a victory over the Chicago White Sox on Thursday at Fenway Park. Boston’s recent stretch of success is almost difficult to put into words, though you can put it rather simply by looking at their 25-4 […]
The Adley Rutschman and Marcelo Mayer trades suggest Craig Breslow is closer to Dave Dombrowski than Chaim Bloom
Last summer, the Red Sox made a bold bid to bolster the rotation and acquire Joe Ryan from the Minnesota Twins. But of course, as we now know, they didn’t land their man. What we didn’t know at the time – or at least didn’t know in detail – is that the Twins balked at […]
Red Sox News & Links: Injury updates on Roman Anthony, Garrett Crochet, Triston Casas
Craig Breslow clearly did not go into this season counting on getting significant production from Triston Casas. That’s the whole reason why Willson Contreras is here. But still, did anyone predict that the team would get no production from him at all? Earlier this spring, as he was still rehabbing from last May’s knee injury, […]
Will the Red Sox complete their comeback and win the division?
Good morning! After falling 15.5 games behind the (at the time) division leading Yankees at the start of play on June 25th, the Red Sox are now tied with New York in the loss column with 51 a piece. (The gap between them is still a game though because the Red Sox have two extra […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Three hits and a homer for Franklin Arias
Worcester: W, 10-1 (BOX SCORE) Life’s so fun in Summer 2026! The Red Sox are winning almost nightly and finding ways to come out on top has even made its way to Worcester, where the WooSox are 12-1 in their last 13. Last night against the IronPigs (Phillies AAA), it was a five-run fifth inning […]
Red Sox down White Sox, clinch ninth consecutive series win
The Red Sox are 30-5 in their last 35 games. It just keeps going. Willson Contreras exited the contest early with an illness while Boston took care of business behind a fantastic night on the mound and a few timely swings at the plate with a 4-0 victory. Here’s three takeaways from Wednesday night’s win. […]
Sonny Gray takes the ball in sneaky important start for veteran righty
TV: NESN First Pitch: 7:10 p.m. ET Sonny Gray must surely hope the Red Sox saved some runs for Wednesday night after a 14-2 trouncing of the White Sox in the series opener at Fenway Park. Gray has been sensational all season and was wronged as an All-Star snub. With that said, the veteran has […]
How much does having a good offensive catcher like Adley Rutschman matter?
Ever since the Red Sox traded for Adley Rutschman on Monday, I’ve been fascinated by the debate over how much having a solid stick behind the plate matters. On one hand, the bat is not your primary focus at that position, and most of the league stinks offensively at catcher anyway, so even if you […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Owen Hull’s first longball
Lehigh Valley IronPigs 10, Worcester Red Sox 5 (BOX) The IronPigs (PHI) went up 5-0 early, due to a short outing from starter Blake Wehunt, who allowed seven hits and three earned in three innings to get the loss. A slew of base hits in the middle innings helped the Woo Sox cut the lead […]
The Red Sox flirted between aggressiveness and recklessness at trade deadline
The Boston Red Sox were as busy as you could possibly be on Monday. If you missed the events of the trade deadline, go ahead take a look at the three deals that they were able to agree upon: TRADE 1Red Sox: C Adley Rutschman, C Jake Rogers, and CashOrioles: RHP Anthony Eyanson, RHP, Kyson […]
The Red Sox ambush the White Sox 14-2 in a thunderous return to Fenway Park
What can you even say at this point? Normally, I love doing a big, deep dive analysis in these game recaps, but tonight we’re going straight to the highlights because this was a complete ass-whipping and doesn’t need any further introduction. So here we go, starting with the Willson Contreras single that got things started […]
The Red Sox lineup as K-Pop songs
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to throw off the shackles of laziness and write the column you’ve been thinking about for months, you gotta do it. My daughter is 11 and a K-Pop fiend and I was at H-Mart Sunday when one of her favorite songs was playing. I knew […]
The Red Sox return to Fenway attempting to win their ninth straight series amid an odd scheduling quirk
With the trade deadline in the books and on field action resuming tonight, it’s a good time to address a pair of odd but compelling scheduling items that will help define the final two months of the season: 1) Starting with the just completed series against the Dodgers in Los Angeles, the Red Sox began […]
Battle of the Sox Part 2, as Chicago visits Boston after the trade deadline
Major League Baseball’s trade deadline came and went with excitement for nearly every team as either a seller or a buyer (maybe not the Reds). There was activity all over the league. And some of it will be relevant in the very first series after the deadline for the Red Sox. However there are a […]
Meet new Red Sox catcher and trade deadline prize Adley Rutschman
Who is he and where did he come from? He’s catcher Adley Rutschman! If the name sounds familiar, that would make sense considering he was previously playing with the Baltimore Orioles, another AL East foe. The number one overall pick of the 2019 MLB Draft by way of Oregon State (and the Falmouth Commodores of […]
How will the 2026 Red Sox trade deadline be viewed in 2031?
Good morning! Jake Roy makes a strong case today that the 2026 Red are better today than they were yesterday, and that that should be the key takeaway from the trade deadline. Yesterday, I argued (as I have, many, many times before) that there is far too much emphasis put on future production from prospects, […]
Where the Red Sox stand after a wild trade deadline
Exhale, folks. The trade deadline has come and gone, and the rapid refreshing of Twitter, Bluesky, or wherever you get your news from can cease. The roster you look at now is more or less what you’ll see for the rest of the season, save for a well-timed DFAs for cost-cutting purposes, à la Nathaniel […]
Grading the trade deadline: What did the Red Sox get?
A. That’s the answer. I’m not going to do the online recipe thing and tell you about that time I did this and that and the other before I get there with 4 sections and 3 false endings so you accidentally click on a Carnival Cruise Line ad instead of knowing how many onions to […]
Red Sox trade Marcelo Mayer to Giants for Erik Miller, drop the curtain on the Big Three Era
I have no way of proving this, but I’m fairly confident in writing it nonetheless: Marcelo Mayer is the only true prospect* in Red Sox history who was widely known throughout the fanbase as soon as he entered the organization. For that reason alone he will always be an important figure in Red Sox history. […]
Red Sox trade prospect Tyler Uberstine for Eli White for some reason
I sort of thought that Craig Breslow would be done trading for the day after the Adley Rutschman deal. Not because he filled all the Sox’ holes, but because the return for Rutschman was so big that the Sox didn’t really have any prospects left to deal. Well, I was wrong. Say goodbye to Tyler […]
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