by askillin | Mar 5, 2014 | 2014 Red Sox Spring Training, Boston Red Sox, Garin Cecchini, Spring Training, Stephen Drew, Will Middlebrooks, Xander Bogaerts
After an October to remember, it’s been a pretty quiet offseason for the Red Sox. Ben Cherington has made a few minor upgrades to help add depth to the team’s roster, but otherwise, the Red Sox appear content to move into 2014 with much the same core in place. From...
by bcowett | Mar 18, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Jackie Bradley, Jon Lester, Jonny Gomes, Mark Teixeira, New York Yankees, Spring Training, Stephen Drew, Tampa Bay Rays
Just under two weeks until the beginning of the season. We’ll have to struggle through a Texas-Houston match-up on Opening Night, but after that, the fun begins. Sure, perfect innings don’t mean much in Spring Training. But when Jon Lester is tearing...
by bcowett | Mar 13, 2013 | Allen Webster, Boston Red Sox, Christian Vazquez, Clay Buchholz, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Roy Halladay, Ryan Lavarnway, Spring Training, Stephen Drew, Steven Wright, Tim Wakefield
I hope all of you are knee-deep in fantasy baseball drafts at this point, and I bid you all good luck. Quick tip: I wouldn’t draft Roy Halladay at any point before the 10th round. Clay Buchholz is having a solid March down in Ft. Myers. The groundballer is...
by bcowett | Mar 6, 2013 | Andrew Miller, Boston Red Sox, Brian Wilson, David Ortiz, Drake Britton, Jacoby Ellsbury, John Lackey, Mark Teixeira, Nate Silver, Prince Fielder, Spring Training, World Baseball Classic
I don’t know about you guys, but I’ve been kind of bored with the World Baseball Classic so far. I’m wasn’t expecting much, but at least more than these mediocre games. Remember a couple seasons ago, where we all said Prince Fielder lost his...
by bcowett | Mar 4, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Jackie Bradley, Mike Napoli, New York Yankees, Rubby de la Rosa, Ryan Dempster, Spring Training
Finally got my hands on one of those new Spring Training caps for the Red Sox. Not too bad, even with the new material they used for them. Not all that stretchy, just a little less stiff. For the first time in what seems like forever, you can’t blame the...
by bcowett | Mar 1, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Brock Holt, Jacoby Ellsbury, Joel Hanrahan, Johnny Gomes, Pittsburgh Pirates, Spring Training, Will Middlebrooks
If a key player in the Red Sox system got badly injured before even setting foot in Fenway this year, I’d probably be beside myself with sadness and frustration. The baseball gods would’ve cursed us again! Okay, everyone. Deep breaths. He’s fine....
by bcowett | Feb 22, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Daniel Bard, Joel Hanrahan, Lyle Overbay, Mike Carp, Mike Napoli, Ryan Dempster, Spring Training
ATTENTION EVERYONE: The Red Sox played ACTUAL baseball yesterday. As Joe Castiglione says, can you believe it? Sometimes, you learn more in defeat than you do in victory. And that’s what the Red Sox have to do when it comes to their rotation after 2012. (Lessons...
by jkeller | Feb 21, 2013 | 2004 World Series, Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, David Ortiz, J.D. Drew, Jacoby Ellsbury, Jered Weaver, Joe Maddon, Johnny Damon, New York Yankees, Scott Boras, Spring Training, Tampa Bay Rays, Tom Brunansky, Trot Nixon
It’s the most polarizing pronoun in the sports world: We. Using this will cause you to frequently encounter snarky replies like “Oh were you on the field?” (No, genius, that stuff gets you fined and jailed these days.) Or “what number do you wear?” (Trot Nixon’s #7,...
by jkeller | Feb 14, 2013 | 2004 World Series, Boston Red Sox, Carl Crawford, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Daniel Bard, Dave Roberts, David Ortiz, Edgar Renteria, John Henry, John Lackey, Jon Lester, Jonny Gomes, Josh Beckett, Larry Lucchino, Spring Training, Theo Epstein
I can pinpoint exactly when it all began. It started with Joe Reilly’s January 5th column right here on Fire Brand. Soon enough, I started to show symptoms of a developing case of Lackey Optimism. The more I thought about the possibilities, the more I started to see...
by bcowett | Feb 6, 2013 | Alex Hassan, Boston Red Sox, Dana Levangie, David Ortiz, Houston Astros, Jed Lowrie, Joel Hanrahan, Keith Law, Manny Ramirez, Oakland Athletics, Ryan Kalish, Spring Training
It’s almost time to put your caps back on those lovable heads of yours. Ft. Myers is about to be filled with a lot of navy and red. The baseball & food enthusiast Keith Law released his top 100 prospects on Tuesday, with quite a few Red Sox on the list....
