by guest | Jan 9, 2012 | Clay Buchholz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, David Ortiz, Dustin Pedroia, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett
This guest post was written by David Schubert of Sabeanmetrics and Curse of Benitez, blogs about the San Francisco Giants. This is his first guest post for Fire Brand of the American League. One of my favorite things about humans is the innate, relentless drive to...
by charliesap | Jan 8, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Erik Bedard, Rich Harden
Rich Harden — whom the Sox almost traded for at last season’s deadline — hasn’t thrown over 150 big league innings in a season since 2004. He hasn’t posted a sub-four ERA since 2008 and he’s a fly-ball pitcher who’s home run...
by aconvery | Jan 7, 2012 | Boston Red Sox
Big market teams have obvious luxuries. They can sign A-level free agents like Carl Crawford and John Lackey (wait…). They can make high profile trades right before the deadline in July, for players like Jason Bay and Victor Martinez. Yet, one of the greatest...
by chipbuck | Jan 6, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, J.D. Drew, Jonathan Papelbon, Kevin Youkilis, Marco Scutaro
Most days, I really love to roll up my sleeves, do some research, and provide some deep, thoughtful analysis on the Red Sox. Today, is not one of those days. Instead, I’m feeling a bit snarky…a little saucy or sassy even. That’s what made the...
by Troy Patterson | Jan 5, 2012 | Boston Red Sox, Clay Buchholz, Daisuke Matsuzaka, Jon Lester, Josh Beckett
So much of the offseason has been spent awaiting the Red Sox moves to sure up the back of the rotation with so far only Daniel Bard and Alfredo Aceves being options to move out of the pen. It’s been assumed that Jon Lester, Josh Beckett and Clay Buchholz will be...
by chipbuck | Jan 4, 2012 | Alfredo Aceves, Boston Red Sox
The criteria for the Fire Brand of the American League Award is as follows: “The Fire Brand of the American League is a Red Sox player who exhibits character under pressure, an unassuming man who leaves the spotlight for other people but makes his indelible mark...
by aconvery | Jan 3, 2012 | Boston Red Sox
The fact that two of the most important players for the Boston Red Sox over the past fifteen years have been a pitcher and a catcher would lead one to believe that they have worked together often. With Jason Varitek and Tim Wakefield, that is not the case. In fact,...
by evan brunell | Jan 1, 2012 | Quick Post
Yesterday on December 31, 2011, Fire Brand of the American League turned eight years old. On December 31, 2003, I was still smarting from the pain of Aaron Boone’s heart-wrenching home run and felt I needed a forum to put my rantings. The blogosphere had yet to...
by evan brunell | Jan 1, 2012 | Trivia
Hello, everyone and welcome the newest installment of FireBrand trivia sponsored by Greatest Game CD. Currently, six different people are tied for first place! (Check out the trivia leaderboard here.) Who will pull out the victory? We will continue this round in...
by charliesap | Dec 28, 2011 | Quick Post, Uncategorized
MLB Trade Rumors has announced that the long-rumored Andrew Bailey to the Sox trade talks have finally come to fruition. The Sox acquire the Oakland closer in exchange for former top prospect and 2011 big league contributor Josh Reddick. More details to come…...
