by aconvery | Dec 27, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
“I’m a firm believer that God has a plan and it wasn’t in his plan for us to move forward. God didn’t have it in the cards for us.” ~Adrian Gonzalez on not making the playoffs in 2011 It seems funny now that it all started with Mike Cameron. When Boston traded for...
by aconvery | Dec 24, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
“The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can sometimes even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not.” ~Chad Harbach, The Art Of Fielding Every week in this column we highlight and profile a prospect in the...
by aconvery | Dec 20, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
On October 6th, 2008, Jed Lowrie slipped the game winning hit through the right side of the infield, propelling the Red Sox past the Angels, and sending them to the American League Championship for a second straight year (two weeks later he would make the last out of...
by aconvery | Dec 17, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
At least Kyle Weiland will always be able to say he was part of the biggest collapse in baseball history. OK, that may not be how he prefers to describe his time in Boston, but it will be quite some time before the Fenway Faithful forget how the events of last...
by aconvery | Dec 10, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
.296/.401/.484 In 2009, this is what Ryan Westmoreland was to most people. A stat line. Raised in Portsmouth Rhode Island, he was drafted in the fifth round of the 2008 amateur draft by the team he rooted for as a child, the Boston Red Sox. He made a splash in his...