by mike silver | Aug 13, 2009 | John Smoltz, Los Angeles Dodgers, Quick Post, St. Louis Cardinals, Texas Rangers
As much of the baseball world knows, John Smoltz refused his assignment to minors yesterday, effectively ending his short career with the Red Sox. Smoltz’s immediate future is still in the Sox hands, as they still must choose to release or trade him. According...
by mike silver | Aug 12, 2009 | Brad Penny, Dustin Nippert, Elvis Andrus, Jarrod Saltalamacchia, Jason Bay, Jon Lester, Junichi Tazawa, Mike Lowell, Texas Rangers
With Thursday’s game still pending, the Sox look to their three-game weekend series in Texas, back 5.5 of the Yankees; up 1.5 on the Rangers in the wildcard. This is a big set – don’t take it likely. The Sox should fare well in the home run haven of...
by mike silver | Aug 10, 2009 | Junichi Tazawa, Quick Post
Evan: Please welcome Mike Silver to the Fire Brand writing crew! Tim Daloisio is going to be stepping down from writing articles for Fire Brand. He will still be contributing one podcast a week plus the weekly poll — and will add in another podcast every week....
