Poll: What Should the Red Sox Do About Right Field?

Our new poll is up and we’re asking you to make the call about the Red Sox right field situation.…

The Sunday Red Sox Excursive

photo © 2009 Werner Kunz | more info (via: Wylio)   They may be just a .500 baseball team, but…

6/5: Can you keep it to nine innings today? I’ve got stuff to do.

Oakland Athletics (27-32) @ Boston Red Sox (32-26) Brett Anderson (3-5, 3.68) @ John Lackey (2-5, 8.01) 1:35 PM EDT…

Trade Target: Francisco Liriano

While Tim Wakefield and Alfredo Aceves have stepped up big-time filling in for John Lackey and Daisuke Matsuzaka, we have…

Revisiting Cameron’s Situation

I had a really grand article planned for today, but due to the craziness that is my life, I wasn’t…

Josh Reddick Got the Call…in August

On September 1st, with the expansion of major league rosters from 25 to 40 players, many minor leaguers get the…

Ryan Kalish continues to perform

I've got a new man crush and his name is Ryan Kalish.

With the Sox 5.5 games out of first, there is still hope for a postseason in Boston despite a season filled with injuries and frustration. One of the reasons the Sox continue to stay within striking distance of the Yanks and Rays is the way that the replacement players have stepped up. From Bill Hall to Jed Lowrie to Ryan Kalish, who continues to embed himself as the cream for the Red Sox crop of prospects.

Daniel Nava a major leaguer!

It's been a long time for Daniel Nava, but the 27-year-old former independent league player has made it.

Sox Prospects is reporting that Josh Reddick has been sent down for Nava. Not only has Nava thoroughly dominated minor league competition in his time with the Red Sox's farm system (.342/.434/.545 in 1,187 plate appearances with 314 of those in independent baseball -- the Chico Outlaws of the GOBL in 2007 at age 24) but he has proven in his first season at Triple-A Pawtucket that he deserves a promotion.

The 5-foot-10 switch-hitter has a strong arm, average speed and tremendous plate discipline. He batted .294 with a .364 OBP and .492 slugging percentage for Pawtucket in 2010. He will be a better "jack-of-all-trades" outfielder for the Sox. Reddick, meanwhile, has loads of talent but has yet to prove his capability in not only the majors, but Triple-A.

Looking For Runs In All The Wrong Places

It's been a rough couple of weeks, folks. We've all heard it, we've all said it, we've all felt it. There's been enough negative energy in this town lately to give Vigo from Ghostbusters II a sugar high. However, if you sat there tonight watching grown millionaires crowd around Darnell McDonald like they were ten years old again and your cynicism, pessimism and negativity didn't melt away, you have no soul.

Tonight, it was the song of the backups -- the team was lifted up and carried by players no one has on a fantasy team, and eventually it was those players who gave the Red Sox their most inspiring win of the young season (with, admittedly, stunningly little competition). McDonald, Jeremy Hermida and Josh Reddick drove in six of the team's seven runs, and two of them weren't even on the roster this morning.

Pawtucket Red Sox 2010 Season Preview

There's a pretty big game tonight. It's Opening Day and the Red Sox and Yankees will battle on NESN/ESPN2 at 8:05 p.m. in the opening salvo of the 2010 rivalry. But keep an eye on the Triple-A team, as there are plenty of people starting things off in Pawtucket that will be important to the Sox's title hopes down the road... Torey Lovullo didn’t need an inordinate amount of time to drink Boston’s “kool-aid” after he was named the Pawtucket Red Sox manager.