Red Sox Hot Stove Round-Up #2

Welcome to the second weekly edition of Red Sox Hot Stove Rumors. From here on out, we’ll be synthesizing everything Red Sox hot-stove related into one, nice, neat , steaming pile of crap for you to smell every week. We’ll mildly speculate, grandstand, posture and...

Lies, Damn Lies and General Managers

I’ve been lied to a lot in my life. But what Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington pulled off this week may be a set up for one of the bigger lies I’ve ever heard. At a sports management conference at UMass-Amherst this week, Cherington said that despite...

Don’t Forget About Jerry Sands

As the Red Sox hunt for a new first baseman and left fielder, one tends to forget the Sox have their own candidate right in the system. That would be Jerry Sands, capable of playing both positions. Sands came over from the Dodgers in the blockbuster trade but did not...

Why Should I Care…Why Should I Care

Dear Evan and Chip, Hi, it’s Scott. I know I haven’t written a lot lately, and I’ve been incommunicado. On the latter, I’m on vacation in San Francisco (I know, I should have told you) but I’m writing anyway because, well, I’m...

Bringing the market into focus: starting pitching

Ben Cherington and his underlings will be spending the early part of this week getting ready to head to Palm Springs, CA to take part in this year’s annual General Manager’s meetings. While the GM Meetings aren’t normally a time of excessive wheeling...

A Look at Baseball America’s Top 10

Technically, this is old news.  And by old news, I mean Wednesday.  Still, it’s worth noting, since we’re in that weird stretch between the postseason and the Hot Stove League where very little happens.  Luckily, Baseball America and the...