by charliesap | Dec 20, 2011 | Gio Gonzalez, Hiroki Kuroda, Poll, Roy Oswalt, Ryan Madson
Fire Brand wants to know what you want the Sox to do for the holidays! Not that we can actually make any of this happen, mind you, but it’s a fun poll question anyway. How about Gio Gonzalez? The price would be high and one has to wonder if the Sox even have the...
by charliesap | Dec 15, 2011 | Poll
The first flurry of moves made by new GM Ben Cherington came yesterday. He acquired some much needed bullpen depth, but sent away a player once seen as being a potential mainstay in the Sox’ lineup. Almost immediately after the Melancon for Lowire and Weiland...
by charliesap | Dec 9, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Poll
Just a quick poll for everyone as we head into the weekend. Chip basically posed the question yesterday, but let’s make it an official poll. Should the Sox bid on Yu Darvish? Are you enamored by his upside and youth? Are you too worries that he’s Dice-K...
by charliesap | Dec 1, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Poll
The Rockies have made both Huston Street and Ian Stewart available. Both fit the Sox needs in the bullpen and at third base (given David Ortiz’s uncertain status and Kevin Youkilis’s injury issues). I’ll be following up with an article on Stewart...
by charliesap | Nov 22, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Poll
Bobby Valentine is a big name. Boston is a big market. But do the two fit together? Troy doesn’t really think so and Chip wonders if ownership and the media should be putting so much weight on the role of a manager. A previous poll showed that Fire Brand readers...
by charliesap | Nov 15, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jed Lowrie, Josh Reddick, Kevin Youkilis, Poll, Ryan Kalish
As Chip pointed out today in his latest Cafardo Mailbag, it seems like every trade suggestion coming from Red Sox Nation involves sending away Kevin Youkilis. Jacoby Ellsbury has been another name whispered in the trade winds, as his breakout season is going to cause...
by charliesap | Nov 8, 2011 | Aramis Ramirez, Boston Red Sox, C.J. Wilson, Carlos Beltran, Edwin Jackson, Hiroki Kuroda, Kevin Youkilis, Mark Buehrle, Poll, Ryan Madson, Yu Darvish
Boston’s search for a new field manager continues and it will do so without the option of Mike Maddux, who withdrew his name from consideration. There are still some intriguing options out there, but managerial changes always make me wonder, “How much does...
by charliesap | Nov 1, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, J.D. Drew, Jason Varitek, Jonathan Papelbon, Marco Scutaro, Poll
The World Series is over and the hot stove season is underway. Now we get to fantasize about what big-name players could be coming to Boston in 2012. I’m excluding Albert Pujols and Prince Fielder right off the bat, since, well, there’s this Adrian...
by charliesap | Oct 25, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Poll
The World Series will come to an end this week and a new Champion will be crowned. What does this mean for the Red Sox? It means that the five-day exclusive negotiating period between the front office and the team’s pending free agents will soon be upon us....
by charliesap | Oct 18, 2011 | Boston Red Sox, Daisuke Matsuzaka, John Lackey, Kevin Youkilis, Poll, Terry Francona, Theo Epstein
A tornado ripped through the streets of Boston this past week and it wasn’t made by mother nature. Gone are the Red Sox manager and GM (supposedly). The dirty laundry is hanging from the rafters of Fenway Park and no one, it seems, is safe. The front office has...
