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Morning, all! Kennedi Landry did an Ask Me Anything on Reddit and fielded questions about who will be playing second base in 2026, which minor leaguers might be joining the big club, and overall roster projections. Jonathan Mayo has baseball execs’ picks for the prospects with the best tools. Texas has two minor leaguers right […]
From Lone Star Ball | 11 days ago | 1 read
The Red Sox are set to host another edition of Fenway Fest this weekend, which looks to be heavily focused on players, autograph sessions, and stories of the 1986 team. It doesn’t appear there will be any sessions with ownership or the front office, which is unfortunate because those have provided some of the most […]
From Over the Monster | 11 days ago | 1 read
Even as the Milwaukee Brewers have downplayed potentially trading ace Freddy Peralta, there’s reportedly growing interest among several contenders across the league. According to recent reporting from Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon of The Athletic, the Dodgers and Braves have joined a group of teams — including the Yankees, Mets, and Red Sox — interested […]
From Brew Crew Ball | 12 days ago | 4 reads
It’s the most exciting time of the offseason: free-agency arbitration agreement time! Tomorrow is the deadline for clubs and players eligible for arbitration to agree to new contract terms or duke it out in front of an arbitration panel. The Sox have five eligible players: Triston Casas, Kutter Crawford, Tanner Houck, Romy Gonzalez, and Johan […]
From Over the Monster | 12 days ago | 1 read
For the second time in a week , the Chicago Cubs are being connected to 27-year-old free agent infielder Bo Bichette, this time by Ken Rosenthal and Will Sammon at The Athletic . “The Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs are among the teams talking to both [Bo Bichette and Alex Bregman], according to people briefed on the conversations. The Blue Jays have been in touch with both, too, but now appear more focused on Tucker. The Cubs’ interest in Bichette, first reported by Jon Heyman, st...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 12 days ago | 0 reads
Good morning! Dustin Pedroia is not going to be elected to the Hall of Fame this year. But he’d get in if Kevin Youkilis was the sole voter. Youk made an appearance on MLB Network this week and talked about his old teammate and some other interesting things, like how World Series winning teams divide […]
From Over the Monster | 12 days ago | 1 read
Over the holidays, my father told me he was going to send me a Tim Wakefield bobblehead that he found in a junk pile at his house. I didn’t have high hopes for this, given that description of its provenance, but it arrived last week, and it’s beautiful. Truly awesome. Opening it, I felt moved—by […]
From Over the Monster | 12 days ago | 1 read
The Red Sox have signed free-agent left-hander TJ Sikkema to a minor league contract, the club announced on Tuesday. The deal includes an invitation to major league spring training. Sikkema, 27, has never pitched in the majors. The Iowa native was originally selected by the Yankees with the 38th overall pick in the 2019 draft … Continue reading "Red Sox sign former Yankees first-round pick TJ Sikkema to minor league contract"
From Blogging the Red Sox | 13 days ago | 1 read
While perusing some Baseball-Reference leaderboards this morning (as one does), I noticed a funny dichotomy in the Cubs’ per-game attendance figures from 2025. In the span of about five weeks early in the season, the Cubs played one game in front of 53,933 fans at Dodger Stadium and another game in front of just 7,482 fans at loanDepot Park, where the Marlins play. The former was one of only three Cubs games played in front of 50K+ fans this season (all against the Dodgers in LA). The lat...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 13 days ago | 3 reads
This is not a new topic (this, or even last, offseason), but Nico Hoerner is sufficiently important to the organization that it’s hard not to at least mention it when there’s a fresh trade rumor mention out there (this is now the third one in the last couple weeks ). But I’ll reiterate that the Cubs actually trading Nico Hoerner is extraordinarily unlikely. The latest comes from Jim Bowden, who said on MLBN Radio that he’s heard the New York Yankees could be in on Hoerner: “I’m being told...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 13 days ago | 3 reads
After the Cubs whiffed on Dylan Cease and Tatsuya Imai, the Cubs’ path for a “big” offseason has narrowed dramatically. And based on the latest Alex Bregman rumor, that gate is about to shut a little further. Check out what Buster Olney and Jesse Rogers had to say about the biggest free agent still connected to the Chicago Cubs this offseason. Alex Bregman Rumors Starting with Olney, who has the key update : The Boston Red Sox want Bregman and have signaled a willingness ...
From Bleacher Nation | Chicago Sports News, Rumors, and a Reasonable Level of Obsession | 13 days ago | 4 reads
Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Matt Clyde Joe Teran Frazier, and he comes to us from Clovis, California via the University of Arizona and the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system. The Red Sox signed him as a minor league free agent last week after he was released by the Pirates. […]
From Over the Monster | 13 days ago | 0 reads
Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Matt Clyde Joe Teran Fraizer, and he comes to us from Clovis, California via the University of Arizona and the Pittsburgh Pirates minor league system. The Red Sox signed him as a minor league free agent last week after he was released by the Pirates. […]
From Over the Monster | 13 days ago | 1 read
Good morning! Truck Day — as overexposed as it has become in the FSG era — is often likened to Groundhog Day as a harbinger of spring. So it’s kind of wonderful that, thanks to the World Baseball Classic, Truck Day is coming early this year and will land on actual Groundhog Day, February 2. […]
From Over the Monster | 13 days ago | 0 reads
The Royals have signed veteran catcher Jorge Alfaro to a minor league contract, according to Aram Leighton of Just Baseball. Alfaro is a nine-year veteran with the Phillies, Marlins, Padres, Rockies, Red Sox, and Nationals. In 510 career games, he has hit .253/.301/.391. Last year he appeared in 14 games with the Nationals and went […]
From Royals Review | 14 days ago | 1 read
Welcome back to the 2025-26 edition of Smash or Pass, in which we examine potential free agent and trade targets to determine whether the Red Sox should pursue them and what it would take to land them. Today we look at a fireballer out of the bullpen. Who is he and where does he come from? […]
From Over the Monster | 14 days ago | 0 reads
Three of the four Dodgers eligible for salary arbitration this offseason are relief pitchers, with outfielder Alex Call the outlier as the only position player in the bunch. With two years, 161 days of major league service time, Call is eligible for salary arbitration for the first time as a Super Two player. That distinction […]
From True Blue LA | 14 days ago | 0 reads
Good morning! The holidays are over, it was 14 degrees in Boston this morning, and everyone is back to work. Thus begins the worst, most depressing stretch of the entire year. Can we at least get some interesting Red Sox news to hold us over? No, we can’t. But we can get unsourced rumors about […]
From Over the Monster | 14 days ago | 1 read
The holidays are over and it's time to get serious. But what does that mean? For the Nats we still don't know. After the trade of Jose Ferrer for Harry Ford the Nats made two moves. 1) Traded Jake Bennett for Luis Perales. This was a "good prospect for good prospect" trade where the Red Sox looking for a certain type of pitcher, were willing to give up a good prospect of their own. Perales is arguably "more certain" than Bennett - younger, closer to the majors and both ...
From Nationals Baseball | 14 days ago | 1 read
Team news [Heavy] Latest Alex Bregman Rumor Increases Likelihood Diamondbacks Keep Ketel Marte – Alex Bregman could be the next infielder to come off the market. ESPN’s Buster Olney reported on First Up with Korolnek and Colaiacovo (audio courtesy of YouTuber and podcaster Robbie Hyde) that the Boston Red Sox have made an “aggressive offer” […]
From AZ Snake Pit | 14 days ago | 0 reads
As of this writing the Boston Red Sox, winners of four World Series championships since 2004 have not signed a single free agent for the 2026 season. They have, of course, made several trades but, but big question marks remain as we enter January, and Spring Training officially begins next month. So what better thing […]
From Over the Monster | 14 days ago | 0 reads
1936 The White Sox had their first-ever transaction with the Atlanta Braves — although at the time, they were known as the Boston Bees — by purchasing second baseman Les Mallon. Mallon was a 0.0 WAR player over 116 games for Boston in 1936, bringing a passable bat (.274/.322/.357) along with a glove that wasn’t […]
From South Side Sox | 15 days ago | 2 reads
I expected Okamoto to get more money. $15 million a year seems pretty team-friendly. We’ll put up a poll a little later, but figured he’d be getting $20 million per, but Ben Clemens thought he’d get 4 years at $18 million, so we got the under. Clemens said: Okamoto isn’t the same kind of shooting […]
From Bluebird Banter | 16 days ago | 2 reads
One of the most interesting moves the Nats have made this offseason is when they acquired Luis Perales from the Red Sox for Jake Bennett. It was a rare prospect for prospect trade, which saw the Nats acquire Perales, who has an electric arm. Jake Bennett was seen as the safer prospect though. Despite being […]
From Federal Baseball | 16 days ago | 1 read
The Red Sox are stepping into the 2026 season in a way they haven’t since 2022: off a (short) playoff run. That’s not nothing. While the offseason hasn’t seen any free agent signings — big or small — there have been notable trades. 1. On a recent episode of Effectively Wild both guests, Craig Goldstein […]
From Over the Monster | 16 days ago | 0 reads