But Can He Pitch?
It’s a long season, and it would appear from the very small sample size of games (three!) that Chad Tracy and Dan DeLucia are making a concerted effort to limit the workload of the starters — at least with respect to this opening series with the Syracuse Mets. In the season opener, Jake Bennett threw […]
Welcome to year four of the Monday Morning Brushback, friends! Each Monday morning, I’ll be posting an article here with three of my biggest takeaways from the week that was in Red Sox baseball while having some fun along the way. It’s a pleasure to be starting up another season of this. As for the […]
Hello and happy Monday, folks. Wait, I’m being told my editor is challenging what day of the week it is. Checking the system…. …..Monday. It’s a Monday, call is confirmed. My editor loses a challenge. We saw a healthy dose of the brand spankin’ new automated ball-strike system in Cincinatti over the weekend. Roman Anthony […]
It’s not even March, but today’s game is an example of why I couldn’t fully buy in on this Red Sox roster. Starting pitching is great, but when the offense can’t support it, you’re always in danger of one swing changing the game. Connelly Early pitched well, although it wasn’t a dominant performance, but his […]
It’s the rubber match of the opening series of the season. Connelly Early makes his first start of the season against Rhett Lowder, who hasn’t pitched in the majors since 2024. Both bullpens are spent after a long game yesterday, so getting to the bullpen early should favor the offense. Masataka Yoshida makes his first […]
The Red Sox still don’t seem to have a long-term plan for what to do with the five outfielders they have for four outfield/DH spots, to say nothing of what happens when Triston Casas enters the DH picture. But they do have a short-term plan. Alex Cora announced that, starting today, Masataka Yoshida would play […]
Zigs and Zags The game had a ton of drama and resisted easy definitions. It wasn’t that the teams traded leads back and forth—the Sox never led, in fact—but every time I thought I had a handle on the direction of the game, a big moment occurred to completely erase that thought. For example, the […]
What to Watch for Today Red Sox Nation got a little taste of baseball on Opening Day, immediately followed by an oddly scheduled off-day. Due to the severe weather in Cincinnati, the game likely would have been postponed anyway so the Red Sox come out ahead with no disruptions to the schedule. Things are going […]
The Boston Red Sox did not play baseball last night, or even yesterday afternoon. But, never fear! About 60 miles west, in New England’s second biggest city and home of the gravesite of the guy who invented the smiley face, several players with MLB service time and some with some more service time certain to […]
WORCESTER, Mass. – Roger Clemens arrived as the Guest of Honor for WooSox Opening Day with core memories of the 40th anniversary of a special season. The 1986 campaign started a run of over two decades in the majors as one of the best starting pitchers in the sport. From learning from Hall of Famer […]
WORCESTER, Mass. – The Boston Red Sox paid Kristian Campbell early last April because the organization believed in the 2023 fourth-rounder after his meteoric minor league rise. His MLB experiment came crashing down after just 11 weeks in the show last season. Campbell struggled defensively at second base and hit just .223 in 67 games. […]
Is Roman Anthony already the leader of the Red Sox? The entire world already treats him as the club’s best player, and he backed that up with three hits and a walk on the first Opening Day start of his career. But the 21-year-old isn’t just leading the team on the field. “Even though it’s […]
Good morning! Yesterday was a legitimately nice spring day in New England and the Boston Red Sox won a real baseball game. Life isn’t one hopeless gauntlet of pain after all! As baseball fans, we’re not supposed to overreact to one game. But overreacting is fun. So let’s hear what knee jerk conclusions you’ve drawn […]
Welcome back baseball, indeed! On an absolutely GLORIOUS day in Cincinnati, the Red Sox took down the Reds by a final score of 3-0. This box score somehow feels earned despite the way the game went? Let me explain. The Red Sox offense got the better of Andrew Abbott but couldn’t push a run across […]
Welcome back to baseball that matters! It truly is the first day of spring when you can toss the red exhibition jerseys aside and play baseball for real. It’s Garrett Crochet ready to knit it up on the mound against an old friend in Tito and the Reds. Let’s play ball! ⚾️ First Pitch: 4:10pm […]
We’re back! For one afternoon. There there’s an off day. And then another game on Saturday. And at that point the baseball season will have successfully started like so many lawnmowers that sputter and make you pull the string a couple of times before they get going. (You probably don’t have to mow your lawn […]
I suppose you could plaster the headline of this piece on pretty much any Opening Day post from any given year and you wouldn’t be completely wrong. But I can’t help but feel a little bit different about the 2026 Red Sox as the sun rises on a new season. This isn’t just the renewal […]
Record and Finish 95-67, first place in the AL East: The time is now! It’s not a perfect Red Sox team, but it’s the best Red Sox team they’ve fielded so far this decade, and its time for them to start making serious waves in the American League. There’s enough talent here where the goal […]
’Twas brillig on Jersey Street The fans roared loud and rumbled,In Fenway’s yard where the faithful played all eager, loud, and jumbled; The Green Monster looms in left field deep, its shadow cold and wide,It calls to every driven sweep, then sends it screaming back inside. “Beware the Sox, my son!” they cried, “you’ve heard the echo of that sound—Beware […]
Well folks, we made it! The offseason is over and Red Sox baseball is about to begin anew this afternoon in Cincinnati. While we wait through the final few hours between the last Red Sox out of 2025 and the first pitch of 2026, let’s take a few moments to talk about our favorite Opening […]
The Boston Red Sox enter 2026 with the clear expectation of returning to the playoffs in consecutive seasons for the first time in eight years. The 2026 team stands on a foundation of exceptionally deep starting pitching, horses to stabilize the bullpen, and colossal pressure on Roman Anthony to carry a reshuffled offense. In fact, […]
Starting pitchers generally use spring training to build up their arm strength and tweak their repertoire. Hopefully that’s the case with Ranger Suarez, who allowed nine runs (eight earned) over 4 1/3 innings in the team’s final spring training game on Tuesday. He only built up to 69 pitches in the final start, which isn’t […]
I really wanted to use a pic of him in a Sox uni but come on now. | Getty Images Baseball is here, and we need to talk about the important stuff. The of-the-moment, Garrett Crochet Opening Day type of news? No. No season-long predictions either. If a season-long prediction must be made, let it be this, melding several voices with which I agree into a general “them”: “The Red Sox should be good enough, and if they stay healthy and Roman Anthony whips ass, they could win it all,” “they” s...
Good morning and happy Opening Day! Except… is it actually Opening Day? There is a regular season baseball game today. But there’s only one of them. And it’s at night. And it’s on Netflix. And it’s an interleague game featuring a team that didn’t even make the postseason last year. And it seems to be […]
The Red Sox rotation is set. Garrett Crochet will start the season opener on Thursday in Cincinnati, Sonny Gray will then take the hill for game 2 on Saturday, and in what was a pretty significant announcement today, Connelly Early will get the ball for the series finale on Sunday. From there, Ranger Suarez, the […]