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Photo by Michael Ivins/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The front office waived the white flag, will the team follow? Well, yesterday sure was something. This is a test To see if my worst still can beat my best This is a test A measurement of my failure at success — The Impossibles, The Week of August First Garrett Crochet was pushed back from this series against a playoff … [Read more...] about Series Preview: Houston Astros at Boston Red Sox

Photo by Chris Bernacchi/Diamond Images via Getty Images And Justin Gonzales leads Salem to a win with a three-hit effort. Lehigh Valley IronPigs vs. Worcester Red Sox – PPD The two teams will play a doubleheader on Friday, beginning at 4:05 ET. In Game One, Mick Abel is the scheduled starter for the Phillies’ affiliate, which seems unlikely since he was traded to the … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 7/31: James Tibbs, we hardly knew ye

Photo by Brace Hemmelgarn/Minnesota Twins/Getty Images By being cheap, the Red Sox may have just cost themselves the 2025 World Series. For a brief moment during the minutes leading up to Thursday’s MLB trade deadline buzzer, it appeared as though everybody atop the Red Sox organization had done their jobs. Craig Breslow had landed a bonafide No. 2 starter, John Henry … [Read more...] about Why didn’t the Red Sox close the Joe Ryan deal?

Photo By Winslow Townson/Getty Images Womp womp. Craig Breslow came to the Red Sox front office as almost a complete unknown. We knew he was a pitching guy, obviously. We knew that Theo liked him. We knew that he went to an Ivy League school and considered studying medicine and spent most of his playing career as the smartest guy in the room (though that’s not hard to … [Read more...] about Red Sox acquire Dustin May from Dodgers to cap off disappointing trade deadline

Photo by Norm Hall/Getty Images The Red Sox bullpen is a little bit better this morning. The Red Sox made their first significant move since the Rafael Devers trade last month by dealing Blaze Jordan (the 19th ranked prospect in the system according to Sox Prospects) for lefty reliever Steven Matz. The St. Louis Cardinals are receiving first baseman Blaze Jordan from … [Read more...] about Red Sox acquire Steven Matz from the Cardinals for Blaze Jordan

Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s Show and Tell time! The pressure is ramping up on front offices around baseball as there’s no more sleeps between now and the trade deadline today at 6:00pm. This game of chicken the buyers and sellers have been playing with each other for the last month will end today! The Red Sox roster has earned … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 7/31: Deadline Day

Jay Biggerstaff-Imagn Images Eovaldi? Pearce? Someone from the Nomar trade? Fernando Abad? Other? With the trade deadline just a matter of days away, the OTM team would like to take you on a trip down Memory Lane. Who, would you say, is the best player that the Red Sox acquired at (or around) the trade deadline? Or your favorite? Your criteria for the choice may … [Read more...] about Who is your favorite trade deadline acquisition in Red Sox history?

Photo by James Vigil/MLB Photos via Getty Images Breaking the wheel at last? When a rain delay, extra innings, and a completely exhausted bullpen running on fumes — for those who weren’t still recovering from a violent plane ride — cost the Red Sox the series opener against the Minnesota Twins it looked like a case of “here we go again.” Finding momentum in baseball — … [Read more...] about The Red Sox, finally, are getting somewhere

Photo by Paul Rutherford/MLB Photos via Getty Images Nick Sogard also reaches base four times as Worcester falls in extra innings. One thing truly matters today, and it only slightly involves the farm. The minor league games matter less in the grand scheme of things than most days where there’s not season-defining decisions for the Red Sox’s CBO Craig Breslow to make, … [Read more...] about Minor Lines 7/30: Kristian Campbell’s hit streak reaches ten games