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If The Playoffs Started Today – MLB Week 6

By ⋅ May 17, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Interleague play is almost upon us, and that will mix up the races for sure. In fact, there’s a three-way tie for the top AL spot. The NL race isn’t too far away from that either. However, injuries are continuing to hit key names, which should shake things up even more. Where do things stand [...]

If the Playoffs Started Today – MLB Week 3

By ⋅ April 26, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Three weeks into the season, and there’s starting to be some real separation in the NL divisions, but the AL is still largely close. The AL East is starting to even out, while Washington’s stock continues to rise. Where has everyone wound up this week? Let’s look at what would happen if the playoffs started [...]

Red Sox Blow 9-Run Lead in Horrific Loss to Yankees

By ⋅ April 22, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Bobby Valentine has had a rough week. First his sideshow debacle with Kevin Youkilis, and now another loss to the Yankees has the rage of the city of Boston at his office door. It looked like a brilliant day early on at Fenway Park late Saturday afternoon, with Felix Doubront quieting the high-powered Yankees offense [...]

Yankees Spoil Fenway’s 100th Anniversary

By ⋅ April 20, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Fenway Park celebrated its 100th birthday as Boston Red Sox legends gathered before the game for a spectacular showing, but the New York Yankees crashed the party. Led by five solo home runs off of Sox starter Clay Buchholz, the Bronx Bombers lived up to their nickname and took the first game of the year [...]

2012 Red Sox Preview: Relief Pitchers

By ⋅ March 15, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A big storyline heading into this new season is how the Red Sox bullpen will perform given significant personal changes. Gone is four-time All-Star closer Jonathan Papelbon to free agency. A big change awaits former dominate set up man Daniel Bard as he is stretched out to start this year to help a limited rotation. [...]

What We Learned This Week: No More Beer, No More Varitek

By ⋅ March 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

What We Learned This Week: Week of 2/23-3/1 1. Jason Varitek retired. A good way to honor the Captain is to retire that hockey-style captain’s “C” that was on his jersey. Don’t give it out to anyone else, so that Jason Varitek will be the only Red Sox player in team history to ever wear [...]

What If…Ellsbury for Granderson?

By ⋅ February 18, 2012 ⋅ 4 comments

In the Winter of 2009, the New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, and Arizona Diamondbacks executed one of the most memorable 3-way trades in recent history. New York received big name outfielder Curtis Granderson. It’s amazing how even the trade has appeared to be across the board after a couple of seasons. Granderson has grown into [...]

Declarmen Joins Okajima With Yankees

By ⋅ January 31, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The legacy of any player to spend time in the Red Sox organization is established when his time at the organization ends and he moves on in his career. The exception to this is former Sox players whose paths lead them to the rival Yankees. This scenario has popped up multiple times this offseason, as [...]

Breaking the (Piggy) Bank: Moving Red Sox Payroll

By ⋅ January 20, 2012 ⋅ One comment

When the New York Yankees went ahead and revamped their starting rotation, trading for 23-year-old pitching phenom Michael Pineda and signing Hiroki Kuroda to a one-year deal, they immediately became the favorites to win the AL East again in 2012. On paper, that is. (Allow me this one glimmer of hope, please and thank you. [...]

Low-Cost Pitching: The 2011 Yankees vs. the 2012 Red Sox

By ⋅ January 18, 2012 ⋅ 15 comments

With their latest addition of Vincente Padilla, the Red Sox continue their spree of signing old and terrible pitchers. To the frustration of many fans, the Red Sox continue to pass on established starters such as Roy Oswalt for the likes of Carlos Silva and Aaron Cook. Meanwhile, the Yankees acquired Hiroki Kuroda and Michael [...]

Yankees Rebuild Rotation with Acquisitions of Pineda, Kuroda

By ⋅ January 14, 2012 ⋅ One comment

Friday night, the New York Yankees, quiet players in the offseason to this point, made two moves to improve their chances in the AL East. GM Brian Cashman shipped top prospect Jesus Montero, a possible catcher and probable DH, to the Seattle Mariners for breakout star Michael Pineda. Later that night, he let the second [...]

Could Cuban Yoennis Cespedes Take Over Right Field for Red Sox?

By ⋅ November 11, 2011 ⋅ One comment

Change is inevitable. For the Boston Red Sox, it’s necessary. As far as the outfield goes, Carl Crawford is in left and Jacoby Ellsbury in center. That begs the question; who is in right? J.D. Drew’s contract is up and there is no way the Red Sox re-sign Drew after his lack of production in [...]

David Ortiz to the Yankees in 2012?

By ⋅ October 14, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

What could hurt the Red Sox more than the 7-20 September collapse and the unbelievable news that followed (fried chicken, beer, video games and painkillers)? Hmm. How about David Ortiz wearing pinstripes next season? What once seemed unthinkable is more possible than ever: Big Papi very well could join the Yankees. Yep, just like Babe [...]

Rays Rally and Red Sox Crumble to Complete Crushing September Collapse

By ⋅ September 29, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

Blame it on the rain. On a night that started out looking like everything could be forgotten. The Red Sox would make the playoffs and the collapse would be nothing but an after thought. The Rays were down 7-0 to the Yankees and the Red Sox were up on the Orioles. Unfortunately, the baseball gods [...]

Red Sox Continue Embarrassing Implosion in New York

By ⋅ September 25, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Boston just can’t seem to get it together, and lost once more to start a doubleheader Sunday 6-2. And yet again, their opponent beat them down early, and as usual, the Yankees never let them back into the game. The omens started early, too, with Jacoby Ellsbury getting picked off in the 1st inning after [...]

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