Tuesday Links: Circle of (baseball) life

Do you remember where you were on the night of November 12, 2010? No? Good, because unless a momentous occasion happened in your life, than it shouldn’t ring a bell. On that night, however, the Red Sox traded lefty relief pitcher Dustin Richardson to the...

Minor League Awards

The Red Sox minor league season wrapped up this week, with five affiliates making the playoffs and two teams (The Pawtucket Red Sox and the Gulf Coast League Red Sox) winning championships. It was another tremendous year of development in the Red Sox minor league...

Do We Really Need Giancarlo Stanton?

  With the season effectively over, it sometimes feels pointless and futile to recapitulate the goings on of the team from day to day and week to week from here on out. It seems extraneous and irrelevant to analyze players’ performances if they are all for naught....

Double-A Emergence And The 2014 Second Half

A deep farm system is a good problem to have, but it still causes problems that will eventually need to be solved by the front office. For example, the Boston Red Sox, heading into the all star break, have been fielding three natural second basemen in their lineups...

State of the Red Sox: Mookie Betts Up, Red Sox Show Flash of 2013 Offense

The Boston Red Sox finished up a 10-game road trip with two straight wins against the New York Yankees Saturday and Sunday. After going 2-6 through the first eight games, the Red Sox won a road series for the first time in the month to end the month of June. The Red...

Five Burning Questions – August

1.  Is it time to worry about the Red Sox? Grab some wood their, bub.  Not so fast.  Entering this most recent series against the Giants, the Red Sox had lost nine of 14 games against the Astros, Royals, Blue Jays, and Yankees–a crew they should have won nine of...

Sweeping Success For Red Sox Prospects In 2013

When I first set out to write this column on Sunday, my idea was pretty simple: highlight which Red Sox prospects have done the most to improve their value in 2013, as well as those who’ve taken major steps back in their development. Filling out the first part of the...

Can Prospects Save The Red Sox’ Pen?

Andrew Bailey, Andrew Miller, Joel Hanrahan, Franklin Morales and Alex Wilson are all on the DL. If the playoffs started today, here’s what we’d probably be left with for a bullpen. RHP LHP Koji Uehara Matt Thornton Junichi Tazawa Craig Breslow Pedro Beato Drake...