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Top-5 Red Sox All-Star Game moments… post-1999
When your franchise is decades older than the very first iteration of your sport’s all-star event, you’re bound to have some iconic players making some key plays during the league’s premier mid-year showcase. The Boston Red Sox are no exception to that. Over 125 seasons and……….well, a lot of All-Stars later (I ain’t counting all […]
Do we like the new Home Run Derby format?
Hello and happy All-Star Game day, folks. The 96th Midsummer Classic in Philadelphia begins at 8 p.m. EST tonight…or at least that’s what we’re being told. I’m sure it’ll be a much later start time, but I digress. Before the game, we had the Home Run Derby last night! The Red Sox’s own Willson Contreras […]
The Red Sox 9-game winning streak doesn’t make any sense… and that’s why it’s so beautiful
On paper, this cross-country road trip is where even the most optimistic Red Sox fans were supposed to reach a capitulation point. Despite a mostly successful 5-2 homestand to close out June against the Yankees and Nationals, reality and time were growling at the door in the form of an abysmal record and the aggressively […]
The Odyssey of Willson Contreras in a repaired, electric Home Run Derby
The main takeaway of this year’s Home Run Derby: The new format gives plaers 20 swings in the first round and 15 thereafter, unless the final swing results in a homer, in which it can continue to infinite swings. Minus a Stanley Kubrick- or David Fincher-type possessing the skills of Kenny Lofton, this is an […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Mikey Romero walks it off
Worcester: W, 6-5 (F/10) (BOX SCORE) What’s better than finishing off the pre-All Star break series against Rochester (Nationals AAA) with a walk-off win? Doing so while holding off a late rally on a day where both teams combined for 15 pitchers used. The bullpen held the Red Wings scoreless for six innings, but the […]
What do the Red Sox do with Brayan Bello now?
After not exactly lighting the world on fire in AAA, Brayan Bello nonetheless returned to the big leagues yesterday. And he shoved: 4.1 IP, 5 K, 2 H, 1 ER, 0 BB. So the obvious question is: what now? The Red Sox do have room in the rotation — at least for now — with […]
Is it time for the Red Sox to go shopping at the trade deadline?
For the next few weeks we’ll be doing some theorizing on optimal returns at the trade deadline as the Red Sox look to do another teardown amidst a hopeless season. Except the season might not be hopeless anymore. The Red Sox swept the Yankees, then dropped two of three at home to the Nationals—nobody is […]
High school power hitter Martin Shelar highlights Red Sox day 2 draft
Those hoping hoping to see the Sox splash the cash on some hard-to-sign candidates on day 2 of the MLB Draft were immediately disappointed, as the Red Sox spent their fifth round pick on Lucas Davenport, a pitcher out of Baylor University who was unranked by both Baseball America and MLB Pipeline heading into the […]
Red Sox Cap Off First-Half Win Streak With Comeback Against Mets
What’s happening? That game didn’t feel real. The Red Sox are on an unbelievable winning streak, but for eight innings today, it felt like a game that happened in April, May, or even June. The team only managed four base runners over the first eight innings, and only one of them advanced past first base. […]
Red Sox Go For Sweep Of Mets In Series, First Half Finale
Happy Sunday, folks. It’s pretty lame that the showrunners decided to take a break in the middle of the season as soon as things got good. The Red Sox have won 13 of their last 15 and are sitting just 0.5 game back of the playoff picture with one game remaining before the All-Star break. […]
Willson Contreras has been exactly what the Red Sox needed
The Heartbeat of Fenway In a grueling 162-game season, conventional wisdom says players should keep an even keel and remember it’s a marathon, not a sprint. Willson Contreras defies that rule every single day, playing at a full, unapologetic boil. Since arriving in Boston via trade from the St. Louis Cardinals, he has been exactly […]
Red Sox Draft Day 2, Franklin Arias in the Futures Game
Day 1 of the MLB Draft is in the books. If you’re internet smart, you know that the Red Sox completely blew it by going way underslot with their first round pick and then failing to use that savings by going overslot on either of their next two picks. If you’re actually smart, you know […]
Red Sox beat Mets 4-0, somehow win 8th in a row
I can’t explain this. Sorry. Look elsewhere. Talk to a priest. Read some tea leaves. Walk the Himalayan foothills and hope the universe reveals its secrets. The Red Sox won their eighth straight game today. They did this behind a minor league reliever making his second big league appearance. They did this with a quad-A […]
Red Sox select Jace Mataczynski with 96th pick in MLB Draft
The Red Sox draft team is done for the day and is now free to enjoy the World Cup. With the 96th overall pick, they selected Jace Mataczynski, a high school shortstop out of Hudson, Wisconsin. With the major caveat that one of them came out of college and the other high school, there are […]
Red Sox select Owen Hull with 67th pick in MLB Draft
After their shock first round pick of Jake Scheffner, an infielder no one projected to go anywhere near as low as #20, the Red Sox went conventional with their second pick. Owen Hull, an outfielder out of North Carolina (Just like Scheffner! Craig Breslow’s pursuing the super friends strategy!) was ranked 67th by MLB Pipeline, […]
Red Sox make shock pick at #20 in the first round of the MLB Draft: Jake Schaffner out of UNC
Jake Schaffner, a speed demon of an infielder out of the University of North Carolina, was ranked just the 98th-best prospect in this draft by Baseball America. MLB Pipeline had him at #75. Keith Law of the The Athletic at #79. Craig Breslow, apparently, thinks he’s a lot better than that, as he made Schaffner […]
Eduardo Rivera – not Brayan Bello – starts as Red Sox go for 8 in a row against Mets
Brayan Bello has not, apparently, fallen back in love with Baseball, as Craig Breslow hoped he would. Or maybe he’s fallen in love with Worcester. Either way, he will not be starting today in place of the injured Ranger Suárez. Instead, the Sox are handing the ball to Eduardo Rivera, who has made one appearance […]
Red Sox Minor Lines: Brooks Brannon drives in a few runs
Worcester: L, 4-10 (BOX SCORE) Raymond Burgos struck out just one en route to five innings of not really having “it” against Rochester (Nationals AAA) but the offense didn’t really have “it” either. By “it”, I may mean “a hit with runners in scoring position” as the lineup went hitless in eight attempts and stranded […]
Can the Red Sox really field a functioning lineup for a surprise playoff run?
The 2026 Boston Red Sox are somehow just 1.5 games out of a playoff spot entering the final two games before the All-Star break. Just three teams sit ahead of them in between the final wild card spot with the Toronto Blue Jays, the Houston Astros and the Minnesota Twins. That field has shrunk in […]
2026 Red Sox MLB Draft Coverage
ATLANTA, GA - JULY 13: Major League Baseball Robert D. Manfred announces Kyson Witherspoon as the fifteenth overall pick by the Boston Red Sox during the 2025 MLB Draft presented by Nike at Coca-Cola Roxy on Sunday, July 13, 2025 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Daniel Shirey/MLB Photos via Getty Images) | MLB Photos via Getty Images Red Sox Draft Day 2, Franklin Arias in the Futures Game Red Sox select Jace Mataczynski with 96th pick in MLB Draft Red Sox s...
It’s MLB Draft Day; When are the Red Sox picking?
Good morning! It’s draft day for Major League Baseball which, strangely, comes at a terrible time for the Red Sox. They’ve won seven in a row! They’re somehow surging up the standings despite suffering a new injury every day! It’s time to celebrate the NOW! Not to look to the future! Alas, the schedule is […]
Late Plane, No Problem as Red Sox Soar Past the Mets, 6-2
The Red Sox didn’t arrive at Citi Field until 5:05 PM for a 7:15 scheduled first pitch—close enough to the wire that the game had to be pushed back to 7:50. Somehow that’s going to end up as a positive for this team? Because once Sonny Gray settled in and Anthony Siegler’s ball clanked off […]
Red Sox kick off final first half series vs. Mets
Did the Red Sox actually make it to Queens?! That was an ordeal a la Doug Mirabello over here! Can Sonny Gray make another statement before the All Star break or will Nolan McLean send a hoard of Grimaces Boston’s way? ⚾️ First Pitch: 7:15pm 📺 TV: Apple TV (sorry) 📻 Radio: WEEI
Red Sox Minor Lines: A Triple Play at Triple-A
Worcester Red Sox 8, Rochester Red Wings 7 (BOX) A game that seemed like a laugher, in favor of the Woo Sox, turned into a wild one at Polar Park on Thursday against the Red Wings (WAS). The craziness started in the top of the third with Nick Sogard starting a triple play on a […]
How should the Red Sox approach this weekend’s MLB Draft?
It may have gone a bit under the radar that the MLB Draft was moved up a couple of days this year. Rather than being a part of the All-Star Break, the draft will start on Saturday at 1:00, with all television coverage being posted on mlb.com Day 1: Saturday, July 11 (Rounds 1-4) Day […]
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