by mike silver | Jan 11, 2010 | Aroldis Chapman, Boston Red Sox, Casey Kotchman
Kotchman to Seattle With all the positive moves the Red Sox have made this off-season, it’s a bit curious that Casey Kotchman became the first player expendable in the wake of the Adrian Beltre acquisition. Following the trade, the party line claimed that Kotchman...
by mike silver | Jan 6, 2010 | Adrian Beltre, Boston Red Sox, Mike Lowell
Adrian Beltre, The Player This off-season has had quite an emphasis on trusting higher-order statistical metrics as, surely, both Mike Cameron and Adrian Beltre do not fit the conventional mold for key cogs on championship caliber teams. Two players whose values lie...
by mike silver | Jan 4, 2010 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz
Ask anyone about the playoff prospects of the 2010 Red Sox and they are sure to tell you that a large part of them are riding on the bat of a resurgent David Ortiz. Papi has been one of the biggest cogs in the Red Sox machine for the better part of the past decade....
by mike silver | Dec 30, 2009 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Lackey, Marco Scutaro, Michael Bowden, Mike Cameron
There is a difference between the Red Sox and nearly every other team in baseball – and it’s pretty obvious. How lucky are our home town fans, that our very own Boston squad has significantly more money to spend on players most other teams. Actually, all but one...
by mike silver | Dec 28, 2009 | Boston Red Sox, Jed Lowrie, Michael Bowden
Important Seasons Upcoming for Bowden and Lowrie For all the talk about 2010 being a “bridge” year, it looks more like the team is building a new Boston skyline than a bridge over troubled water. With three big free agent signings already in the books and more...
by mike silver | Dec 23, 2009 | Adrian Gonzalez, Boston Red Sox, Javier Vazquez, New York Yankees
Haymakers and The Vazquez Deal Punch. Then counter punch. The Sox signed John Lackey. Then the Yankees added Javier Vazquez. While not a knockout punch by any means, the move is a big blow by any measure – maybe a rib-buster or a deep cut above the left eye....
by mike silver | Dec 16, 2009 | Boston Red Sox, John Lackey, Marco Scutaro, Mike Cameron, Uncategorized
This will certainly be a defining offseason when Red Sox historians look back on Theo Epstein’s legacy as Boston GM. If the acquisitions work, fans and media alike will sing high praise – and the untouchable GM will become all the more invincible. If the moves fail,...
by mike silver | Dec 14, 2009 | Boston Red Sox, Mike Cameron, Quick Post
[UPDATE by Evan, 9:00 PM] The Associated Press is reporting that the Mike Cameron deal is done. It’s two years in the range of $15.5 million, according to Ken Rosenthal. I think it’s a fantastic deal. Cameron has 20-home run pop while providing tremendous...
by mike silver | Dec 10, 2009 | Adrian Beltre, Boston Red Sox, Max Ramirez, Mike Lowell, Texas Rangers
Lowell to Texas, Beltre to Boston? This rumor has been cooking for a long time, and it may finally be ready for consumption. According to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, the Red Sox and Rangers have a deal in place that would send Mike Lowell to the Texas Rangers, with...
by mike silver | Dec 8, 2009 | Boston Red Sox, Matt Holliday
I’ve had it up to here with this “he can’t hit in the AL East” crap! Even a few select members of the Red Sox brass believe in this credo – and I feel downright shame that we would support Jason Bay over Matt Holliday merely for the fact that Bay has hit in the...
