But Can He Pitch?
As the dust settles on the Alex Bregman departure, details about the Red Sox failed free agent pursuit are starting to trickle out. Unsurprisingly, Alex Speier has a ton of interesting nuggets, including: the Red Sox had a trade for Nolan Arenado all but completed last offseason until Bregman and Scott Boras approached the Sox […]
Good morning! The Red Sox don’t have a third baseman, but they do have two of the best left-handed pitching prospects in baseball. MLB Pipeline put both Payteon Tolle and Connelly Early on their top-10 list: That’s Tolle in the number two slot, just behind Miami’s Thomas White, and Connelly Early landing at number eight. […]
Regarding the Red Sox offseason, you may have heard, among other things, that they have not yet signed a Major League free agent. That is true. It is, in fact, unclear if the front office is aware that free agency began on November 6th. Minor league free agents, though? The action is hot. The Red […]
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Next up, a former top prospect. Who is he and where does he come from? He’s old friend Yoan Moncada, […]
In the 19 years between 1993 and 2011, the Red Sox didn’t finish in last place in the division a single time. In the 14 years since 2011, they finished in last 6 times. The lean Chaim Bloom years were intended, according to Fenway Sports Group, to serve as something of a resent to avoid […]
The Red Sox made it through Fenway Fest before the Alex Bregman news broke. After months of negotiations and all the work that went into acquiring him last year, the saga is over. Only a few people will ever know how whether the Red Sox were genuinely serious or if this was a pursuit designed […]
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Next up, a (mostly) second baseman who may or may not be on the trading block. Who is he […]
I don’t want to say I told you so — because I definitely wasn’t alone in my worries about this whole situation, although I did take considerable heat for it on Twitter — but let’s just say that what unfolded this weekend with Alex Bregman is exactly what I figured would happen immediately following the […]
And how was your weekend? Yeesh. I’m still a bit shocked that Alex Bregman ain’t coming back to the Red Sox. I guess I just had too much confidence that something would’ve been figured out. Luckily, the gang here at OTM will be here to take you through the fallout of the third baseman signing […]
The Chicago Cubs signed former Red Sox third baseman Alex Bregman to a bad contract tonight: five years, $175 million with no opt-outs. The Great Bregman Saga, which has consumed two consecutive offseasons for the Red Sox, is now over. The final line reads: 114 G, 18 HR, .273/.360./462, 3.5 bWAR, $40 million, 1 postseason […]
Perhaps the title of “Renaissance man” is thrown around too much. Sure, folks can be talented in multiple different disciplines of the arts. Culture is a broad spectrum that reaches billions, and the beauty of it is that its auteurs and practitioners can reach across any construct of division that might separate us: race, gender, creed, language […]
Hello one and all, and happy Saturday. To those who will be in attendance: happy Fenway Fest to you and yours! I won’t be able to make it this year, sadly, as I missed the boat on ticket inventory. I gambled that the event wouldn’t sell out, and I lost. If it’s your first time, […]
Good morning. Camp Story is wrapping up somewhere in Texas. Time to do some scrapbooking: Talk about what you want, write to your new camp buddies, and be good to one another.
There’s a long history of people being associated with things they never *exactly* said. On July 15, 1979, exactly 18 months after I was born, Jimmy Carter gave a speech about a “crisis of confidence” in America that’s commonly referred to as the “malaise” speech, despite Carter never having used the word. But the brain […]
It’s early January in Boston. Every day, or so it seems, there is the dreaded wintery of sleet/snow/rain/ice and of course wind. But over the next month there will be more and more stories about guys “in the best shape of his life” and heading to Florida for Spring Training. And as soon as those […]
Last night, the Colorado Rockies signed RHP Michael Lorenzen to a one-year, $8 million deal, and while that transaction may appear totally irrelevant to the Red Sox on the surface, it does leave Boston as the only team in baseball that hasn’t spent a cent on a major league free agent so far this winter. […]
The Red Sox are set to host another edition of Fenway Fest this weekend, which looks to be heavily focused on players, autograph sessions, and stories of the 1986 team. It doesn’t appear there will be any sessions with ownership or the front office, which is unfortunate because those have provided some of the most […]
It’s the most exciting time of the offseason: free-agency arbitration agreement time! Tomorrow is the deadline for clubs and players eligible for arbitration to agree to new contract terms or duke it out in front of an arbitration panel. The Sox have five eligible players: Triston Casas, Kutter Crawford, Tanner Houck, Romy Gonzalez, and Johan […]
Good morning! Dustin Pedroia is not going to be elected to the Hall of Fame this year. But he’d get in if Kevin Youkilis was the sole voter. Youk made an appearance on MLB Network this week and talked about his old teammate and some other interesting things, like how World Series winning teams divide […]
Over the holidays, my father told me he was going to send me a Tim Wakefield bobblehead that he found in a junk pile at his house. I didn’t have high hopes for this, given that description of its provenance, but it arrived last week, and it’s beautiful. Truly awesome. Opening it, I felt moved—by […]
Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Matt Clyde Joe Teran Fraizer, and he comes to us from Clovis, California via the University of Arizona and the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system. The Red Sox signed him as a minor league free agent last week after he was released by the Pirates. […]
Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Matt Clyde Joe Teran Frazier, and he comes to us from Clovis, California via the University of Arizona and the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system. The Red Sox signed him as a minor league free agent last week after he was released by the Pirates. […]
Good morning! Truck Day — as overexposed as it has become in the FSG era — is often likened to Groundhog Day as a harbinger of spring. So it’s kind of wonderful that, thanks to the World Baseball Classic, Truck Day is coming early this year and will land on actual Groundhog Day, February 2. […]
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Today we look at a fireballer out of the bullpen. Who is he and where does he come from? […]
Good morning! The holidays are over, it was 14 degrees in Boston this morning, and everyone is back to work. Thus begins the worst, most depressing stretch of the entire year. Can we at least get some interesting Red Sox news to hold us over? No, we can’t. But we can get unsourced rumors about […]