by huntergolden | Apr 3, 2013 | Buster Posey, hot stove, Justin Verlander
So the big deal this past week has been the two monster extensions handed out to both Justin Verlander and Buster Posey. Everyone from Jonah Keri to Rob Neyer are writing about the death of free agency and how the space time continuum we know as the Hot Stove, will...
by huntergolden | Apr 2, 2013 | Andrew Bailey, Andrew Miller, Eduardo Nunez, Francisco Cervelli, Jackie Bradley Jr., Joel Hanrahan, Jon Lester, Jose Iglesias, Junichi Tazawa, Koji Uehara, Tim Bogar, Vernon Wells
Sure, it’s hard to take much of anything away from one baseball game, but with a team full of so many question marks, it’s always fun to start peeling back layers – as small as they may be – to uncover some of those answers. While we probably won’t have much of a...
by huntergolden | Mar 27, 2013 | Daniel Nava, Jackie Bradley, Jonny Gomes, Jr.
In Boston, things are never dull even when they’re supposed to be. Such is the case with Jackie Bradley Jr., who in spite of an incredibly impressive Spring Training finds himself on the outside looking in for a spot on the Red Sox Opening Day roster. By the end of...
by huntergolden | Mar 20, 2013 | Ben Cherington, Bobby Doerr, Cody Ross, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jonny Gomes, Mike Napoli, Platoon Splits, Shane Victorino
There hasn’t been a more exhausting argument to listen to regarding any single Red Sox player this offseason than everyone’s couch fainting over Shane Victorino’s platoon splits. Before we venture into the land of the lost though, let’s get this out of the way so...
by huntergolden | Mar 13, 2013 | Casey Blake, David Ortiz, David Ross, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jonny Gomes, Josh Willingham, Mauro Gomez, Mike Napoli, Raul Ibanez, Ryan Lavarnway
With the news of David Ortiz’s soreness in his heels breaking this past weekend, the prospects for Big Papi to play on Opening Day seem to be all but dashed. How long it will take Ortiz to get back into the lineup is a major question mark at this point, leaving the...
