Over the Monster

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images The team needs to revive the corpse that is our offense Can the Red Sox avenge a poor showing so far against the Jays this season (winning just two games out of seven so far)? Maybe, but our offense is sure going to need to come alive for that to happen. Because it’s dead. Stone-cold, dead-and-gone, in-the-ground dead. Anybody ever had a Corpse … [Read more...] about Game 83: Blue Jays at Red Sox

Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images There’s so much to write about with this team that all follow the same trope, it’s hard to pick anything to write about. Sitting down to write this piece all week genuinely felt like this: The amount of ideas that flew into my head and quickly fell flat to me was astounding. I thought this was just a case of writer’s block and that I would find … [Read more...] about The 2025 Boston Red Sox are baseball’s version of Groundhog Day

Photo by Matthew Stockman/Getty Images And the bats combine for seven runs across four games, with Greenville accounting for the lone win. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders 4, Worcester Red Sox 2 (BOX) milb.com Kyle Harrison, recently acquired in the Rafael Devers trade, drew his first start in the Red Sox organization on Thursday night … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 6/26: Kyle Harrison hit hard in debut

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Not that he’ll even be able to play in the All-Star Game... We’re not done with the front office deep dives, folks! This one comes from arguably the most respected Red Sox beat reporter there is, and it’s got some new information on the outside audit Craig Breslow initiated, staff reductions, and some awkward … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Alex Bregman named All-Star finalist

Photo by Cole Burston/Getty Images Stop the bleeding. The Toronto Blue Jays are heading to Fenway Park at 43-37, three games behind the Yankees in the AL East, and 1.5 games ahead of the Seattle Mariners in the Wild Card race. The Jays hold the second of the three extra playoff spots. They are, however, just 5-5 in their last 10 games. The Red Sox are sitting at 40-42, … [Read more...] about Series Preview: Toronto Blue Jays at Boston Red Sox

Photo by Nick Cammett/Diamond Images via Getty Images Down month or not, the shortstop’s trajectory still looks promising. It’s easy to reference this video from Top Gear when I see the Red Sox lose lately: It’s a sad state of affairs and this season is looking worse by the day. One thing that doesn’t make me sad is delivering these Minor Lines to all of you. Let’s … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 6/25: How long will Franklin Arias’ slump last?

Photo by Olivia Vanni/Getty Images Hopefully things get better soon! I want fun baseball back! Well, that road trip, and the entire first half of the season for that matter, was an infuriating experience! The Sox now have another Thursday off-day today to rest and recover, and then kick off what will hopefully be a much more fruitful and spectacularly memorable second … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 6/26: Licking our wounds

Photo by Elsa/Getty Images The Red Sox are acting like a small market team with too many unproductive hitters allowed to stay in the lineup. A decade ago, when I was writing about the Rockies — a small market baseball team that didn’t have enough resources to fill every spot in the lineup with production — I created a nerd metric called “Drag Factor” designed to … [Read more...] about The 2025 Red Sox have a Drag Factor problem

Photo by Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images Craig Breslow might reel in some help . Wednesday June 25 was the day Red Sox fell to the Angels to conclude a sweep by the Halos and drop Boston to 40-42. It was also the 23rd birthday of Cheer Up!, the fourth studio album by ska band Reel Big Fish. The hit track of that album was not one of their traditional ska … [Read more...] about Red Sox Nation: Cheer up!