by bcowett | Apr 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – For the second consecutive season, left-hander Henry Owens has been rated as Boston’s No. 1 pitching prospect. But even though Owens delivered an un-No. 1 prospect performance Wednesday night as the Syracuse Chiefs defeated the Pawtucket Red Sox,...
by bcowett | Apr 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
PAWTUCKET, R.I. – The last time Steven Wright was in action, he was bailing out a beleaguered Boston Red Sox bullpen – in last Friday’s 19-inning marathon at Yankee Stadium. Wright tossed five innings of two-run ball in a game Boston eventually won 6-5. Suffice to say...
by bcowett | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
The question is: What can Kevin Boles do in his second season as the Pawtucket Red Sox manager? The answer may be to win a third Governors’ Cup championship in the last four years. Boles’ chances of doing so are interesting considering Pawtucket began the season with...
by bcowett | Feb 12, 2015 | Christian Vazquez, Clay Buchholz, Corey Kluber, Dustin Pedroia, Hanley Ramirez, Justin Masterson, Rick Porcello, Vladimir Guerrero, Wade Miley, Xander Bogaerts
The first thing you probably said when you looked at the starting rotation of the 2015 Red Sox this morning probably wasn’t “yeah, this’ll work”. Knowing you, it was probably something like “eh”, “meh”, or a statement...
by bcowett | Nov 27, 2014 | 2014 Red Sox offseason, Boston Red Sox, Carl Crawford, Cleveland Indians, Giancarlo Stanton, John Henry, Jon Lester, Miami Marlins, Michael Bourn, Nick Swisher, Oakland A's, Tampa Bay Rays
Look, I know it’s Thanksgiving. We should be showing thanks, enjoying our families, and eating until we feel like exploding, not unlike one of those poor saps from Alien. It should be a time of coming together and appreciating everyone and everything in our...