Over the Monster

Photo by Alyssa Howell/MLB Photos via Getty Images News and notes from around Red Sox Nation. For the rest of my baseball life, I will probably insist that Garrett Whitlock could’ve made it in the rotation— and likely would’ve been more valuable there — which is what I’ve been saying about Jonathan Papelbon all these years. But regardless of hypotheticals, there’s no … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Garrett Whitlock, relief ace

Paul Rutherford-Imagn Images On Fridays we wear yellow The Boston Yellow Sox are back! For the first time this season, the Fenway home team is breaking out the city connect uniforms. I think the plan is to wear yellow for every Friday home game, but it is marathon weekend, the weather is turning, the team has won two games in a row, and the vibes are high. Hunter … [Read more...] about Game 21: White Sox @ Red Sox, City Connect Night

Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images The boys are back in town The Red Sox are back in action tonight against the White Sox and thank god because I barely survived yesterday’s day-off. But as tough as it is to endure a day without baseball, at least we don’t have to go to Norway to get our fix. That’s the situation that poor Loukas Soukeras finds himself in as the last … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 4/18: Red Sox baseball makes for a good Friday

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images And hopefully, some payback Fresh off a rebound series that saw them take two out of three from the Tampa Bay Rays on the road, the Red Sox welcome the Chicago White Sox to Fenway. The Pale Hose took two of three from Boston just last week accounting for two of their four wins on the season. Losing two games to a … [Read more...] about Series Preview: White Sox at Red Sox for Marathon Weekend

Plus, an extra-inning win in Game 2 for Worcester, and a frantic comeback by Greenville falls short. Game 1: Worcester Red Sox 8, Rochester Red Wings 0 (BOX) milb.com After a postponement due to “cold” in Rochester (WAS) on Wednesday night, these teams played two seven-inning affairs on Thursday, and the opener did not disappoint. In the top of … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 4/17: Roman Anthony goes yard twice, WooSox no-hit Rochester

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images How much more of this offense are you going to sacrifice? Yesterday, Matt Gross wrote a great piece on the prospect that the 2025 Red Sox are poised to break out. They’re playing .500 ball despite a number of unusually poor individual performances, signaling that things could turn around if certain things occur, … [Read more...] about When will it be time to call up Roman Anthony?

Credit to Brianna Soukop, Portland Sea Dogs Four innings of acceptable work for Bello, who returns to Boston next week. If you take yesterday’s date, 4/16, it reduces to 1/4. As in, one-fourth of the teams we usually cover had a one-day postponement due to, uh, cold weather. Rochester (Nationals AAA) had some wind squalls that may have made baseball unplayable, or at … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 4/16: Brayan Bello makes final rehab start

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Plus, Hunter Dobbins gets another chance. The cavalry, as the Civil War-era kids like to say, is coming. Brayan Bello and Liam Hendriks are due to imminently join the Red Sox following short rehab stints, while Lucas Giolito is hopefully right behind them, though he still has some kinks to work out. (Peter Abraham, … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Liam Hendriks, Brayan Bello to return from injury

Enjoy the sun. We’re not even a month into the Red Sox season and the trees in Boston are only just starting to leaf. So why does it feel like the season’s vibes have already shifted multiple times? Ugly losses follow dominant pitching performances. Strikeouts and errors pile up and then lead into defensively flawless 1-0 victories. And as the Sox head back home to take on the … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 4/17: Taking the day off