Fire Brand Poll #107 – Red Sox Defense

Last week, I asked you to qualify your level of concern with Clay Buchholz’s rough start to 2014. To that point, Buchholz had been inconsistent, with two starts of six innings and two earned runs allowed, and two starts with six runs allowed (one of which lasted...

State of the Red Sox: Lineup Getting Healthy, Defense Struggling

The Boston Red Sox stand at 12-13 through almost a complete month of the seasonand are only 2.5 games behind the New York Yankees for the top spot in the AL East. After a slow start with the offense, pieces are starting to come back and the Red Sox have started to win...

In Their Own Defense, They’ve Been Terrible

In the 2013 regular season the Red Sox committed 80 errors in 162 games. That total ranked them as the eight best team in the Majors and the fifth best in the American League (although strangely enough only fourth best in their own division behind Baltimore, Tampa...