by evan brunell | Mar 14, 2007 | Uncategorized
Minor Details yesterday released his ranking of the Top 10 Prospects of the Red Sox. There are two surprises to me here: that reliever Bryce Cox is not on the list, and catcher George Kottaras. He counts Craig Hansen as a prospect, which bumps Cox off. However,...
by evan brunell | Mar 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
The full list is here. The Red Sox: 1. DAISUKE MATSUZAKA, rhp, Red Sox Who needs a gyroball? He has six pitches that grade out as plus or plus-plus at their best, and he’ll be the best Japanese import ever. And no, we’re not forgetting about Ichiro Opening...
by evan brunell | Mar 1, 2007 | Uncategorized
Okay, that’s a bit misleading. Still, though, if you visit the most recent UniWatch article, he chats about people changing uniform numbers. He links to Manny Delcarmen’s current Red Sox page, where he is now #17. He also links to last year, where...
by evan brunell | Jan 28, 2007 | Uncategorized
Just a quick note to everyone that I just wrote a feature-length article for MVN on the power of baseball blogging. It can be found here, and is part of a new feature of MVN: The Last Page. See you on Monday with more Helton...
by evan brunell | Jan 26, 2007 | Uncategorized
Okay, this is ridiculous. NESN is going to air a reality show in July that has one “lucky” person sitting with a blind date for two innings apiece, then the person gets to choose who to sit with for the remainder of the game after the sixth inning....
by guest | Jan 3, 2007 | Uncategorized
Well, what a year that turned out to be! Remember how warm it was at New Year’s? And the Blizzards that followed? I think my arms still ache from all the time spent with my shovel. And remember all the angst over who would close games back then? Who could have...
by evan brunell | Dec 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
Fire Brand officially has reached 1,000 columns. This is the 1,000th column of Fire Brand. Allow me to be self-serving for a minute. I started this December 31st, 2003. I had no clue where this site would take me. I had no idea the amazing commenters I would encounter...
by evan brunell | Dec 1, 2006 | Uncategorized
The Winter Meetings start next week. It will be a week filled of free agent signings, of trades, of wheeling and dealing, of cell phone company executives accounts filling up. Here’s the depth chart of the Red Sox heading into the meeting, and a suggestion on...
by evan brunell | Nov 30, 2006 | Uncategorized
Remember the 2004 ALCS when Mike Myers made Hideki Matsui look silly? Remember it no more and experience it again in 2007. The lack of a dominant lefty reliever plagued the Red Sox all through 2006. We now have a solution in the form of 30-year old Hideki Okajima....
by evan brunell | Nov 28, 2006 | Uncategorized
Not only is Matsuzaka in the fold, but it appears another Japanese player is set to sign with Boston. His name is Hideki Okajima, a 30-year old left handed reliever from the Hokkaido Ham Fighters. Career Stats I like this for many reasons: One, it appears the Orioles...
