Fire Brand Poll #109 – Stephen Drew!

Polls are back! We’ve had a brief couple weeks off as I’ve been busy, you know, graduating from college. But now I’m getting back into the swing of things, and your supply of topical Red Sox polls should go unmolested for some time. A couple weeks...

Red Sox Poll #108 – Mookie Betts

Last week, accompanying pieces by Jack Keller and myself, I asked you how concerned you were with the Red Sox defense. Your answers essentially came out to “kind of?” The majority (43%) of you said you were “Moderately” concerned, while 31%...

Fire Brand Poll #107 – Red Sox Defense

Last week, I asked you to qualify your level of concern with Clay Buchholz’s rough start to 2014. To that point, Buchholz had been inconsistent, with two starts of six innings and two earned runs allowed, and two starts with six runs allowed (one of which lasted...

Xander Bogaerts, Through 18 Games

We got our first look at Xander Bogaerts: Major League Shortstop on August 20, 2013; an 0-for-3 effort against the San Francisco Giants. Bogaerts was fresh off of decimating minor league hitting – as he had been known to do – to the tune of a .374 wOBA in AAA, and we...