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An honest question.
The World Series between the Yankees and Dodgers starts Friday, and from what I can tell, a huge number of Red Sox fans would prefer a meteor manage a direct strike on Chavez Ravine at game time than see either of these teams in win it all. Why?
I get hating the Yankees — that’s just what we do. I don’t get hating the Dodgers, especially as a Boston fan. Not only did they bail out the Red...
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Another day without baseball...
Happy Tuesday.
While the baseball world waits for Friday’s Game 1 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees, Craig Breslow is tweaking his front office.
With a full season on the job, and time to plan for the offseason, are we going to see his plans in action? There are prospects to promote and/or trade. Pitching health to evaluate - Giolito, Hendricks, Whitlock...Rich Hill.
Talk...
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It was a lost season for the man on the other side of the now infamous Chris Sale trade.
The PositivesOn May 5, 2024, in his second big league game after returning from a Spring Training groin injury, Vaughn Grissom stepped up to the plate in the 8th inning of a two-run game against the Minnesota Twins. After taking a first-pitch ball, Grissom lashed a cutter on the outside part of the plate to the opposite field, missing a home run by just a...
Red Sox catching prospect Brooks Brannon was among the top performers in Week 2 of the 2024 Arizona Fall League season. Appearing in three games for the Mesa Solar Sox last week, Brannon went 7-for-12 (.583) with one home run, two RBIs, four runs scored, two walks, and one strikeout.
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News and notes from around Red Sox Nation.
Well, this isn’t going to help put an end to the “Tampa Bay North” jokes. Craig Breslow just made the most significant front office hire of his tenure in charge of the Red Sox, poaching executive Taylor Smith from the Tampa Bay Rays. Smith graduated from college in 2018 and has worked for the Rays for seven years, most recently as their Director of Predictive Modeling. He...
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The Yankees winning a World Series would obviously be horrible, but would it even change anything the Red Sox front office does?
It’s like looking at a car crash, albeit one that was bound to happen, took fifteen years to come to fruition, and involved roughly a billion dollars committed in total and $260 million on the 26-man roster in 2024 alone, which is more than 25% over the next-closest team.
I’m talking, of course, about...
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Who do you like?
Happy Monday.
The Cleveland Guardians gave up the ghost and will continue to add to their World Series drought. Their last championship was in 1948 - 76 years. They’re just a decade shy of the legendary Boston Red Sox streak/curse/situation. It was so long ago they defeated the Boston Braves. If you were in college when 2004 happened you’d be almost 100 without seeing another World Series win. Jimmy Carter, famously just turning 100, was a mere...
The Boston Red Sox currently have four assistant GMs. Not enough, perhaps.
The Boston Red Sox’s Kristian Campbell and St. Louis Cardinals’ Quinn Matthews took home Baseball America’s Minor League player and pitcher of the year.
If anybody knows about playoff momentum, it’s Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.
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The outfielder/DH dealt with a bad labrum for much of 2024.
If you’re feeling a little sluggish this morning and your boss isn’t happy about it, tell her you have a legitimate excuse: yesterday was the 20th anniversary of Dave Roberts’ steal in Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS and you were out celebrating, as all good New Englanders should have been. Dave Roberts, though, missed the party. (Peter Abraham, Boston Globe)
And if all that partying isn’t...
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Not a rhetorical question!
This is neither a rhetorical question nor a shitpost. We want to know how old you are!
To wit, recent comments have us asking, in the OTM Slack: How old are you? So I figured I’d just ask. And if you have any stories specific to your era you’d to share, do so below.
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At least for the ALCS
TGIF.
We made it to the weekend.
Last night the Yankees felt some ghosts getting into their game. But it wasn’t Mystique and Aura it was Big Papi and Dave Roberts. Ready to win the game after 9 innings the Yankees blew the save and then lost in extra innings. Now, instead of ending the series this would have only made it 3-0 but it was 20 years to the day of The Steal.
Anyway the Yankees lost 7-5. They play again tonight at 8:08 PM ET...
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Tito returns to baseball, screens, and hearts in New England.
I think the first thing that ever truly bothered me about Red Sox ownership was in 2011 in the aftermath of Terry Francona’s dimissal. An article was published, pointing to anonymous sources who suggested that he had developed a chemical dependence in the wake of his divorce, and that this had impacted his ability to manage the Red Sox during the season that had just ended.
I don’t mean to rehash...
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Weighing the pros and cons.
Yes.
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That ball was crushed
Happy Thursday.
The Los Angeles Dodgers shut down Grimace and the Mets last night. Kiké Hernandez and Shohei Ohtani added to their respective legacies.
LA is now up 2-1 and needs two wins to punch their ticket to the World Series.
They play again tonight at 8:08 PM ET on FS1.
In American League action the Yankees and Guardians get to work at 5:08 PM ET on TBS. New York leads the series 2-0.
Tropicana Field was destroyed last week by Hurricane...
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Can the catcher catch?
The PositivesOffensively, Wong made strides. He improved his slash line from .235/.288/.385 to .280/.333/.425. If you’re a nerd and want to see how that stacks up with the rest of the league, his wRC+ increased from 78 to 110. If you’re not a nerd and don’t know what I’m talking about, in 2023 Wong created 22% fewer runs than the average player whereas in 2024 he created 10% more runs than the...
On the final day of the regular season, Boston Red Sox outfielder/designated hitter Masataka Yoshida revealed that he had been playing through discomfort in his right shoulder.
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The key to winning is trying.
It seems like ancient history, but for a couple months in the early offseason in 2022 it looked like Aaron Judge was destined to become a San Francisco Giant. As much as I despise the Yankees, I thought letting Judge go would have been an error on par with, if not worse than, the Mookie Betts trade. I’ve said it on the podcast, but it bears repeating that, as a New York resident, I had never seen a single Yankee...
Boston Red Sox outfielder/designated hitter Masataka Yoshida is recovering from surgery to repair the labrum in his right shoulder. The team announced Wednesday that Yoshida, 31, underwent successful surgery on Oct.