The Reality Check Year

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Looking Back

Let??s look back at the players we traded for Josh Beckett this past off-season: Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez, Harvey Garcia and Jesus Delgado. Surely these guys are washing cars by now. Hanley Ramirez: Instead of the recently-injured and at times...

Thinking About The Wild Card

The reinforcements have arrived, along with the welcome home of Carlos Pena, delivering a walkoff homerun on a series we absolutely need to sweep if we want a shell of a chance of winning the Wild Card. Sunday, we saw the return of shortstop Alex Gonzalez and...

More 2007: Free Agent Starting Pitching

Before the season began, we all believed the Red Sox most immediate and clear improvement would come straight from the pitching staff. The Josh Beckett trade gave us a qualified, young Ace A, while Curt Schilling had recovered from his injury and was forming back into...

Last Game of the Season

Well. What a month. Even before the events of this past week I had decided to have a look back at ‘happier’ days, but then we heard about Lester. So rather than just happily flip back to telling stories about baseball fun it seemed appropriate to pause for...

A Japanese Pitcher and a Catchin' Padre

HIROTOSHI ISHII / MLB.COM The recent Strike Zone article piqued my interest because not only did it predict Randy Wolf (and in a later article, Julio Lugo and Craig Wilson) to become a Boston Red Sox for the 2007 season, it also predicted Hirotoshi Ishii to do so....

A Japanese Pitcher and a Catchin

HIROTOSHI ISHII / MLB.COM The recent Strike Zone article piqued my interest because not only did it predict Randy Wolf (and in a later article, Julio Lugo and Craig Wilson) to become a Boston Red Sox for the 2007 season, it also predicted Hirotoshi Ishii to do so....

Jon Lester Being Tested For Cancer

The Boston Herald just broke the story that Jon Lester is being tested for cancer. Although Red Sox officials are being extremely tight-lipped about the matter, Lester has been undergoing an array of exams in Boston for internal medical issues, including cancer....

Examing The Red Sox Situation For 2007: Offense

With the horrifying, dreadful, obscenely appaling, god-awful month of August just about ready to reach its brutal end, and the 2006 season for the Artists Formerly Known As the Boston Red Sox all but over, there??s only one area to turn: the off-season ahead. Looking...