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What’s the best Red Sox batting order?
Through the first week of this new season, Alex Cora has already started to shuffle the lineup, swapping both personnel and positioning. It’s not entirely surprising—this team simply hasn’t found its footing and this is the easiest lever for Cora to pull. But the issue here isn’t just that the Red Sox aren’t hitting. It’s […]
Yes, you should freak out about the Red Sox’ bad start… but not because it’s rational
If I were to say the words “October baseball” to you, you would instantly be able to picture it in your imagination. You know exactly how October baseball looks, feels, and sounds. You see the bundled-up fans in the stands, you see the FOX score bug on the screen, you hear the crowd roar for […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: An improbable comeback for the WooSox
Worcester: W, 5-4 (BOX SCORE) While the Red Sox were losing to the Astros, the WooSox were in St. Paul for a 2:10 PM first pitch following Tuesday’s 19-3 rout of the Saints (Twins AAA). Jack Anderson fell into a 4-0 deficit in the third inning via a grand slam that put St. Paul’s win […]
The toxic fallout from the Alex Bregman debacle has the potential to contaminate the entire Red Sox season
On the night of February 13th, 2025, John Henry lit up a victory cigar to celebrate what would ultimately turn into one year of Alex Bregman’s services. Today, nearly 14 months later, Alex Bregman is gone, but the ashes from that cigar continue to catch fire and create new destructive flames on a seemingly daily […]
Who is the Red Sox’ best right-handed bat?
Good morning! I have some positive news: The Red Sox will not lose today. That’s of course because they don’t play again until tomorrow’s home opener, but hey, they can’t get any worse after a reset … right? In the meantime, we’ve gotten a good whiff of the stink emanating from this lineup over the […]
Astros 6, Red Sox 4 ; Houston sinks Crochet again, completes sweep
The Red Sox cannot wipe away this road trip fast enough. Fenway Park, here they come. Another loss to the Houston Astros, a 6-4 final on Wednesday, spelled more of the same. Too many strikeouts. Too many errors. Not good enough in any phase. Not even Crochet Day could put the Red Sox back in […]
Game 6: Red Sox at Astros; Garret Crochet trusted to avoid sweep
The Red Sox play their sixth game of the season this afternoon. They have just one win and 13 total runs to show for it. By the way, the Red Sox are now just 4-11 in March over the last four years and 2-8 over the last two years. But March is over! Now, Garrett […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Unlike the big club, the WooSox are not having trouble scoring runs
This Major League team is tough to watch, right? Well, guess what? The WooSox, featuring Nick Sogard, Nate Eaton, Kristian Campbell — all guys with playing time in the organization in the last year — are raking in the series opener in St. Paul. Let’s get right into it! Worcester: W, 19-3 (BOX SCORE) You […]
Red Sox News & Links: The strikeout that wasn’t
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 […]
What worries you the most about the Red Sox shaky start?
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 […]
Calm down — the Red Sox have plenty of time to turn things around
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 […]
Astros 9, Red Sox 2: Horrific baseball in every facet imaginable
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: […]
Game 5: Red Sox at Astros, Brayan Bello takes on Hunter Brown
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 […]
The pros and cons of baseball’s new ABS challenge system
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 […]
It’s too early to panic over the Red Sox— or is it?
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 […]
Red Sox News & Links: Sox preaching patience after slow start
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 […]
Today on OTM: Did you forget how much of a grind baseball is?
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 needs to be Captain Chaos for the Red Sox
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 […]
Astros 8, Red Sox 1: No. I don’t like this one. Skip it
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 […]
Game 4: Red Sox at Astros
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 […]
Series Preview: Boston Red Sox at Houston Astros
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 […]
What Payton Tolle brings as Red Sox rotation depth in 2026
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 […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Mikey Romero might rake
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 […]
The Red Sox fail to launch in their opening series in Cincinnati
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 […]
After one Red Sox series, how do you feel about the ABS System?
Hello and happy Monday, folks. Wait, I’m being told my editor is challenging what day of the week it is. Checking the system…. …..Monday. It’s a Monday, call is confirmed. My editor loses a challenge. We saw a healthy dose of the brand spankin’ new automated ball-strike system in Cincinatti over the weekend. Roman Anthony […]
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