by charliesap | Feb 13, 2012 | Boston Red Sox
Dan Szymborski is the creator of the ZiPS projection system. Whether you have read his musings on Baseball Think Factory, ESPN.com or elsewhere, you’ve likely been introduced to his work. If not, you should become acquainted. Adrian Gonzalez lead the hitters...
by charliesap | Feb 12, 2012 | Poll
‘Tis the season for prospect lists. While there are many expert lists popping up left and right, we want to hear the roar of Red Sox Nation. Based on what you’ve seen, read, heard or analysed for yourself, who do you think is the Sox’ top prospect?...
by aconvery | Feb 11, 2012 | Boston Red Sox
On Thursday, ESPN analyst Keith Law released his annual ranking of the top 100 prospects in the game. Before ESPN, Law had a job in the Blue Jay’s front office as a special assistant to the general manager and was a writer for Baseball Prospectus. Needless to say,...
by chipbuck | Feb 10, 2012 | Boston Red Sox
As most of you probably know by now, I love to read baseball articles, pick them apart, and respond in kind. Typically, when this happens, I’m responding back to Dan Shaughnessy for some trite, overbearing, piece of trash he regurgitated onto the Boston Globe...
by Troy Patterson | Feb 9, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Daniel Bard
I took a look earlier this offseason at why projections and comparables for Daniel Bard should make us optimistic, but there is much more to the story. Also I needed a reason to play with the new BrooksBaseball Player Cards. Looking at Bard’s 2011 I saw two...
by Troy Patterson | Feb 9, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Sabermetric Spring Training
It’s almost Truck day and the Red Sox players are almost ready to get started. What better time to start a review of the stats we most commonly use at Fire Brand? We’ll try to cover as many as we can and hope you’ll ask questions if you have any or...
by chipbuck | Feb 8, 2012 | Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays, Toronto Blue Jays
Going into the 2012 season, the Red Sox’s biggest perceived weakness is their starting pitching. While they have a formidable front three, the back of the rotation gives much anxiety to those running, following, and writing about the club. The Yankees have...
by aconvery | Feb 7, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Jose Iglesias, Mike Aviles, Nick Punto
<a title="license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ – click to view more info about 'Well, in a short answer: yes. Unless Ben Cherington knows something that the rest of us don’t (and he just might), then Mike Aviles and Nick Punto are...
by chipbuck | Feb 6, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Derek Lowe, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jason Varitek, Kelly Shoppach, Ryan Lavarnway
In case you missed it yesterday as you were preparing to watch what turned out to be the Patriots bonecrushing and entirely depressing loss to the New York Giants of East Rutherford, NJ in the Super Bowl… According to Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, Scott...
by charliesap | Feb 6, 2012 | Aaron Cook, Alfredo Aceves, Boston Red Sox, Carlos Silva, Clay Buchholz, Daniel Bard, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, Roy Oswalt, Vincente Padilla
Can the Red Sox starting rotation hold up in 2012? Find out by watching every Red Sox game in 2012 with MLB Extra Innings on DIRECT TV. A few days ago, Red Sox GM Ben Cherington was quoted as saying that it was “unlikely” that the Sox would add another...
