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Red Sox News & Links: Sonny Gray will pitch next year… not necessarily with Red Sox
If you found it a little strange that Sonny Gray was considering retiring after one of the best seasons of his career, Sonny apparently agrees with you. Though he hinted all season that he could hang up the crooked hat for good this winter, Gray confirmed that he will return to Major League Baseball in […]
Garrett Whitlock injury news raises new questions about Red Sox medical staff
On Friday morning, a picture was posted to Instagram from Garrett Whitlock’s wife, Jordan, showing an offseason beach picture of Garrett, overlooking the beach, with the hashtag #thriving. Less than notable, living his best life. Except for, you know, the walking boot that Whitlock was wearing. We learned later on Friday from Gabrielle Starr that […]
The Dodgers and Brewers are about to play the most impactful LCS in a generation
Off the field, owners and players are digging in for what promises to be a painful and shameful labor dispute. But before we get to that, we still have some action to settle on the field. Specifically, an NLCS matchup that almost perfectly prepares us the imminent conflict. Yes, in classic baseball fashion, the sport […]
The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is in a sad state
The Red Sox and Yankees met in the postseason in consecutive years in the Wild Card round – both won by New York. The clubs had not met in consecutive postseasons since their pair of classics in the 2003 and 2004 ALCS. My how things have changed since those incredible back-to-back October clashes. The rivalry […]
Yes, Nick Offerman is aware that Payton Tolle looks like his son
Something about a mustache breaks people’s brains. This is likely a result of nothing more than the fact that mustaches are so rare these days. There was about a 25-year stretch in American society whereupon if anyone grew a mustache, they would immediately be compared to Tom Selleck. This was true regardless of whether they […]
How did Red Sox brass Craig Breslow and Chad Tracy do in 2026?
On a scale of 1 (Harry Frazee) to 5 (Theo Epstein), how would you rate Craig Breslow’s last 12 months? 3. Breslow did something which is more than the nothing we endured for several years. Maybe that something isn’t the something you wanted, but it’s more exciting than nothing. — Jacob Roy 4. Caleb Durbin […]
MLB Playoff Roundup: Guardians stay alive, Yankees, Braves, Padres go home
Guardians 9, White Sox 3 (BOX SCORE)(CHW leads 2-1) Jo Adell struck out three times in game 1 of this series, but it’s not how you start, it’s how you finish. He had a mammoth game on Wednesday, driving in three runs with a triple and showing exactly why the Guardians went and got him […]
Jeffrey Maier justice
For the 17th consecutive season, the New York Yankees will not win the World Series! They got swept. They never led in any of the games. It wasn’t close. The end! This particular Yankee Elimination Day was still a little extra juicy though because nearly 30 years to the day after the Jeffrey Maier incident […]
How to celebrate Yankee Elimination Day
Yankee Elimination Day is finally here! With the Rays defeating the Yankees in the ALDS last night, a wave of celebration and good spirits has washed over this lonely planet of ours. In light of the, uhh, not great manner in which the Red Sox were recently eliminated, the holiday is likely to prompt some […]
Kiké Hernandez ties David Ortiz on all-time postseason home run leaderboard
Good morning! Kiké Hernandez hit a home run in the postseason last night, which is a thing that Kiké Hernandez likes to do. But this one was particularly notable, as it was his 17th career postseason homer, tying him with David Ortiz on the all-time list. I don’t love that Kiké may knock Big Papi […]
The highs and lows of the 2026 Red Sox
What was your favorite moment of the season? Wilyer Abreu’s go-ahead home run in the seventh inning against the Rays just after the All-Star break. The team went into the break red hot, but at that point they were still only one game over .500, and being a playoff team was far from cemented. When […]
Red Sox News & Links: No surgery for Roman Anthony
Fitzy already took you through the highlights (such as they were) from yesterday’s press conference. We’ve gotten plenty used to the front office telling us about how pained they are by failing to meet their goals, so there wasn’t much actual news in that sense. But we did get some actual substantive information regarding Roman […]
What is a Red Sox fan supposed to do after the season ends?
Hello and happy Tuesday, folks. Hope your week’s off to a good start. Believe it or not, there’s no Red Sox game on today. Or tomorrow. Or any day for the foreseeable future, actually. That means we’ve got a good amount of free time on our hands. My question to you: How have you been […]
Craig Breslow & Sam Kennedy didn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know at the Red Sox end-of-season press conference
It’s hard to believe that the Red Sox were alive and well not so long ago, because I’ve been in a daze for the past week. Two straight ass beatings to bring your months-long habit to a screeching halt will do that to you, I suppose. Now with the Red Sox out, I’ve been coming […]
Bobby Dalbec had a great year in Japan
Good morning! It’s Monday, which sucks. And it’s the first Monday without Red Sox baseball since March, which sucks even more. But one thing I’m fond of reminding people is that baseball exists beyond the confines of the Major Leagues. The Yomiuri Giants finished the NPB regular season just 2 games behind their bitter rivals, […]
Jackson Chourio’s heroics provide a pleasing blueprint for Roman Anthony’s rehab
Baseball brings both horror and odd silver linings from unexpected places. In just the last handful of days, Roman Anthony’s been handed both. The first is the most obvious as the hand injury Anthony battled all year resurfaced and wrecked his first playoff appearance in merciless fashion. He now faces a long offseason of rehab […]
Playoff Roundup: Yankees narrowly escape getting no-hit
Saturday marked the first day of the divisional series, a round the Red Sox have not reached since 2021. For those tuned out of the playoffs since Boston’s exit, there are still plenty of storylines to watch. If you’re on team “I root for the Red Sox and whoever is playing the Yankees” you likely […]
The Red Sox Wild Card exit was no plot twist
I’m still processing all my feelings over here, and having gone through the Wild Card Series itself already, I find myself back at September’s regular-season games. We saw them go 12-12 on the month, as Chad Tracy allowed players to rest and conserve their energy for the postseason. I am starting to see their September […]
Red Sox News & Links: Mickey Gasper has surgery
The Red Sox season is over. But Red Sox injury news never stops! At least this is good-ish news: Mickey Gasper underwent successful “distal biceps tendon repair” surgery yesterday to fix his gnarly looking arm: It’s expected that it will take 4-6 months for Gasper to get back into game action, so it’s unclear whether he’ll […]
The Red Sox need a lineup overhaul. It’s complicated, though.
The Red Sox clearly weren’t couldn’t hit enough this year and the Yankees exposed that in glaring fashion in the postsesson. Boston added a real bat last offseason in Willson Contreras – who produced an All-Star season and did homer to produce one of just the two runs the Red Sox scored in the Wild […]
Craig Breslow started building the 2027 Red Sox in 2026
The Wild Card series against the Yankees was probably the worst way for the 2026 season to end. Everything that was a problem at any point – struggles to score runs, the bullpen, injuries – all happened at the same time and within a matter of minutes. Two games in a row ended the Red […]
Who do Red Sox fans want to win the World Series now?
Well, the playoff field is set and the Red Sox are no longer in it. We’ve got White Sox-Guardians and Yankees-Rays in the American League. Braves-Dodgers and Padres-Brewers in the NL. So the question is: who are your pulling for to win the World Series? A Brewers or Rays triumph would be a delicious entry […]
Was Red Sox manager Chad Tracy right to remove Sonny Gray from Game 2 against the Yankees?
Baseball is a game of numbers. It’s played on the field, with balls and bats and gloves, but every action, decision, and outcome is measured by a number. Those numbers are presented to us during broadcasts, in gambling ads, and by people like me on Twitter and in pieces here on OTM. Most of the […]
The Red Sox lost, but is the Sox-Yankees rivalry inching back toward center stage?
Forget the results, if you can. Losing two games in a row is a rounding error for a baseball team in every other month, but in October, it’s definitive. Win and you’re good. Lose and you’re bad. In this telling, the Red Sox rapidly lost to the Yankees, ergo they’re bad. I disagree, and this […]
Red Sox News & Links: Vets express frustration with management in wake of playoff exit
By now you’ve seen the quotes. After another ugly night at Yankee Stadium, a number of Red Sox veterans expressed their frustration not only with the way they played, but with certain on and off-field decisions. First and most notably there was Sonny Gray, who didn’t mince words when it came to his thoughts about […]
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