by tom fratamico | Oct 29, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, John Henry
New England Sports Ventures (NESV), the group that owns the Red Sox among other businesses, recently purchased the Liverpool Football Club (LFC) for $476 million or at a discount of roughly 40% according to Forbes. The business publication valued LFC at $822 million....
by tom fratamico | Oct 8, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Rafael Soriano
The last major off season issue for the Red Sox to tackle is acquiring another reliever for the end of the game. It was the club’s weakness on paper at the start of 2010 and continued throughout the season. Hideki Okajima’s production continued to slide. Ramon...
by tom fratamico | Oct 1, 2010 | Adrian Beltre, Boston Red Sox
Now that the Red Sox are officially out of the playoffs, we will resume laying out the winter plan. We already discussed the need and what it will probably take to bring back Victor Martinez. The second major part of the off season to-do list is to figure out the...
by tom fratamico | Sep 10, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, Victor Martinez
Last week in this space, the Red Sox winter to-do list was laid out. The most important was to resolve the uncertainly at catcher. Do the Sox resign free agent to be Victor Martinez, hand the bulk of the job to Jarrod Saltalamacchia with Jason Varitek (who would...
by tom fratamico | Sep 3, 2010 | Boston Red Sox
On this web site and in general, I have been labeled as a pessimist. I think of myself as a realist. Since the Red Sox are more than three games out of the Wild Card, they are highly unlikely to make the playoffs this season. But the Olde Towne Team has a very...
