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For all the talk of Dombrowski running the team back, there are a few significant players and faces who made up the 2022-25 run, now gone. Ranger Suárez signed a five-year deal with Boston, Nick Castellanos is trying to prove himself in San Diego, and Matt Strahm returned to the city that started his career […]
So Johan Oviedo’s Red Sox career hasn’t started the way anyone would’ve liked. Oviedo didn’t crack the rotation out of spring training and then was roughed up in his first relief appearance against the Astros on Monday, displaying a concerning dip in velocity. But Andrew Bailey and The Run Prevention Unit have some ideas as […]
Good morning! The Red Sox are bad (right now) but Garrett Crochet is good (almost always) and he pitches today. We are not yet at the point where we need to make vacation plans for October. Having said that, oof. What a frustrating start to the season. To kick off today’s discussion, let’s hear what […]
A number of Red Sox players were hot in the World Baseball Classic. A number did well in Spring Training. But it hasn’t really carried over into the first week of the season. The Boston Red Sox are 1-4 after a full turn of the rotation and are once again looking for Garrett Crochet to […]
LOS ANGELES — Shohei Ohtani hasn’t hit much yet this season, but Tuesday night was a reminder that the four-time MVP is also an excellent pitcher. The Dodgers needed his arm to beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-1 in the middle game of their interleague series at a damp Dodger Stadium that was much closer than […]
For the fourth day in a row, the Red Sox managed to play their new worst game yet of the young season. And while there’s still 157 more of these after tonight, that’s suddenly starting to sound more like a threat than a reason to get comfortable. Only two good things happened in this one: […]
He may have been on a smaller pitch count than usual, but Hunter Brown didn’t let that stop him from charging through the Boston lineup. Brown earned his first win of the season tonight, hurling 6 innings of 1 run ball with 8 strikeouts as the Astros throttled the Red Sox 9-2. Brown was lifted […]
Kodai Senga’s first start of the season went well, but the Mets’ lineup was lifeless as the team lost 3-0 to the lowly Cardinals tonight in St. Louis. It’s hard to come out of seeing your team get shut out by an unimpressive cast of pitchers, but let’s start with the positive. Senga continued to […]
The Houston Astros (3-2) host the Boston Red Sox (1-3) tonight at Daikin Park in the second game of a three game series. Astros Opening Day starter RHP Hunter Brown will make his second start of the season for the Astros, this time opposite RHP Brayan Bello and the Red Sox. TUESDAY’S TILT: The Astros […]
The Red Sox look to get back in the win column tonight and avoid falling three games under .500 in the first swing through the rotation. On the mound, they’ll have Brayan Bello, who is very much the definition of Trick or Treat. At times (including much of last summer), he looks like a top […]
Former Red Sox pitching prospect Noah Dean has agreed to terms on a minor league contract with the Washington Nationals, according to The Nats Report. Dean was released by the Red Sox on March 19 after spending parts of four seasons in the organization. The 25-year-old left-hander was originally selected in the fifth round (159th … Continue reading "Former Red Sox pitching prospect Noah Dean signs minor league deal with Nationals"
As I was recapping Saturday’s extra-inning loss to the Reds, my thoughts and emotions ran the gamut when it came to ABS, umpiring, and the intersection of the two. I touched on a few of those in the recap itself, but the broad outlines were this: I had some other thoughts about ABS that I […]
The Boston Red Sox stink. I don’t necessarily know if that statement can be categorized as hyperbolic — right now it sure feels correct, but I have been known to overreact and this exact franchise did something very similar last season before eventually making the playoffs. I just can’t help but shake the feeling… The […]
So the Red Sox offense so far is… ah, not great. Roman Anthony, Jarren Duran, Willson Contreras, Trevor Story, and Ceddanne Rafaela are all carrying an OPS below .700. Caleb Durbin is carrying an OPS below the gates of hell. But all is not lost offensively, thanks the prodigious play of Wilyer Abreu. Following his […]
Happy Tuesday, Red Sox Nation. After last night’s ass-whooping at the hands of the Houston Astros, our beloved Red Sox fall to 1-3. I don’t know about you, but the offense feels like it’s been slumping for weeks, even though it’s only four games. Baseball season is a grind, though, and nobody wins 162 games […]
Jarren Duran placed eighth in American League MVP voting in 2024, between Tarik Skubal and Yordan Alvarez. The following season, his 3.9 fWAR output was a disappointment. Offensively, his offensive output was most hampered by a .050 decrease in his slugging percentage, which includes 13 fewer extra-base hits. His strikeout rate also increased by about […]
The Red Sox’s bad start to the season continued in Houston, where they got pounded good by the Astros, 8-1, buoyed by a Yordan Alvarez moonshot and supplemented by all manner of similar shit to fall to 1-3. Ranger Suarez made his Sox debut and gave up four runs, as did Johan Oviedo (on both […]
The Houston Astros (2-2) host the Boston Red Sox (1-2) at Daikin Park in the second series of the season. RHP Lance McCullers Jr. will make his first start of the season tonight for the Astros opposite LHP Ranger Suarez, who’s debuting for the Red Sox after signing with the club in the offseason. ABOUT […]
The Red Sox are still on the road, having decamped south to Houston to face the dastardly Astros after losing 2 of 3 to the Reds. Which is fine. It’s March. March! The game’s at 8:10 EDT and the ‘Stros will be wearing their City Connect unis, which I learned from this post: The Sox […]
With Opening Day and the first series of the year under their belts, the Red Sox stay on the road with three games agains the Houston Astros. This time it’s three games over three days, rather than over four, and the series in Texas will get us into April, a more natural time for baseball […]
WORCESTER, Mass. – Payton Tolle already showed his MLB potential last summer with an electric Fenway Park debut and meaningful innings for the Red Sox in a playoff push. To start 2026, Tolle finds himself in a much lower-stress environment on the mound. The 2024 second-round pick got thrown into emergency circumstances for several starts […]
The baseball gods are rarely kind enough that all the Yankees’ rivals lose on the same day. Yesterday, the exact opposite almost happened. But Boston lost, and that’s always nice. They’re also about to play the Astros and guarantee that at least one of our collective nemeses will lose each of the next few days. […]
It’s a long season, and it would appear from the very small sample size of games (three!) that Chad Tracy and Dan DeLucia are making a concerted effort to limit the workload of the starters — at least with respect to this opening series with the Syracuse Mets. In the season opener, Jake Bennett threw […]
Welcome to year four of the Monday Morning Brushback, friends! Each Monday morning, I’ll be posting an article here with three of my biggest takeaways from the week that was in Red Sox baseball while having some fun along the way. It’s a pleasure to be starting up another season of this. As for the […]
It’s not even March, but today’s game is an example of why I couldn’t fully buy in on this Red Sox roster. Starting pitching is great, but when the offense can’t support it, you’re always in danger of one swing changing the game. Connelly Early pitched well, although it wasn’t a dominant performance, but his […]