by darryl johnston | Feb 27, 2011 | Adrian Beltre, Carl Crawford, Jon Lester, Poll, Quick Post
photo © 2010 Graham Nadig | more info (via: Wylio) Least season the Red Sox were hit with a set of unexpected injuries. Strangely enough, they were also hit with a 7.0 WAR player seemingly out of nowhere. Adrian Beltre carried the Red Sox on his back for the summer...
by darryl johnston | Feb 23, 2011 | Boston Red Sox
photo © 2008 Eric Kilby | more info (via: Wylio) Back in November, we were looking at potential backup catchers to help support the growth and development of the newly-minted Jarrod Saltalamacchia. In that quest we discussed focusing on a veteran player with a...
by darryl johnston | Feb 16, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Dennis Eckersley, John Lackey, Josh Beckett
photo © 2010 Dan M | more info (via: Wylio) When the Red Sox signed John Lackey in December 2009 it came as a surprise to many fans. Boston had made similar contract offers to free agents Jason Bay and Matt Holliday and a lot of us were hoping the Sox would sign one...
by darryl johnston | Feb 13, 2011 | Poll, Quick Post
photo © 2009 Keith Allison | more info (via: Wylio) Please vote to the left of your screen Do you want to have daily game threads here at FireBrand for the 2011 season? These game threads can be a fun place to essentially live chat games and mico-blog to a certain...
by darryl johnston | Feb 9, 2011 | 2004 World Series, Andrew Miller, Boston Red Sox, Eric Gagne, Rich Hill, Terry Francona, Theo Epstein
photo © 2008 Eric Kilby | more info (via: Wylio) Here is the best way to sum up the Red Sox 2011 approach to finding a left-handed option in the bullpen: We certainly like the non-roster options that we have from the left side with Rich Hill, Andrew Miller and Randy...
