10 Years Ago, Today.

This is the most beautiful WPA chart you will ever see: http://www.baseball- reference.com/boxes/SLN/SLN200410270.shtml#wpa Three doubles by Trot Nixon. The lead off home run by Johnny Damon. The ball that Foulke snagged and Doug Mientkiewicz stole. Soak in the...

Red Sox Hire Chili Davis

The Red Sox and A’s continued their longstanding bromance/resource-sharing/trading/philosophy mirroring history when they hired Chili Davis as their new hitting coach. This, following the Red Sox famed wooing of Billy Beane, trading for Yoenis Cespedes, seeing...

2015 Draft Comes Into Focus

For those who have been sports fans in America for a long time, you know that the one carrot that comes with a disappointing season [or being a Cleveland Browns fan] is a great draft pick the next year. Of course, a baseball draft pick is less gratifying because of...

As Long As We Are Looking Ahead to 2015

Is Yoenis Cespedes still going to be in Boston in 2015? Will Giancarlo Stanton be here? Jon Lester? What do we make of Jackie Bradley, Jr. and Mookie Betts’ 2015 destinations? These are all questions being asked about 2015, and the answers are less than certain...

The Best Part of the Coming September?

The Red Sox are 60-77 entering play September 2 (Have the Sox really only lost 17 times less than they have won? It has felt like waaaaaaayy more than that.) It has been discussed, ad nauseam if we are to be honest, what there is to look forward to in September:...