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Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images “Winning is fun” - Roman Anthony This here is what a professional hitter looks like! Two on, two out, two strikes, and the boy with the bat boldly lines a pitch away and off the plate to the opposite field with purpose. He didn’t try to pull it, and he didn’t try to do too much. He just took what it was, made a mid … [Read more...] about Red Sox 3, Rays 1: Roman’s Reign begins at Fenway

Photo by Brian Fluharty/Getty Images Which version of Lucas Giolito will we see tonight? Lucas Giolito has made seven starts for the Red Sox this season, and for the most part we’ve seen two different versions of him. In three of the starts, he’s allowed six or more earned runs, but in another three, he’s allowed one earned run or less. Given the current state of the … [Read more...] about Game 69: Rays at Red Sox, Pepiot vs. Giolito

Photo by Jim McIsaac/Getty Images The league adjusted to him. He’s adjuting back. Development isn’t linear. Real life isn’t MLB The Show, where you gain experience and level up your skills. (Is that still how it works? I haven’t played in probably four years, maybe even longer.) In real life, young players go through ups and downs. What you see when a prospect arrives … [Read more...] about Kristian Campbell’s bat will come around

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images Good morning, Red Sox Nation. I don’t know about you guys, but I would sleep about an extra three hours each week if the Red Sox didn’t play extra innings every night. I’m the first one to say “I miss baseball” during the offseason, but I don’t need ten innings every day. Nine is plenty. As always, use this thread to talk about whatever you … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 6/10: Rome wasn’t built in a day

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images He’s here and he’s spectacular. Who is he and where did he come from? He’s Roman Joseph Anthony, and the Red Sox drafted him in the second round of the 2022 draft, via a pick they earned as compensation for losing Eduardo Rodriguez in free agency. Anthony came out of Marjorie Stoneman Douglass High School in … [Read more...] about Meet The New Guy: Roman Anthony

Brian Fluharty-Imagn Images He’s here. He’ll wait for his first win. The first game of the Roman Anthony era ended sadly, 10-8 in the 11th inning after a valiant effort to tie it went to ish in the second frame extras, death courtesy of the ghost runner. (Reverse ghost runner, actually, as it’s a real person representing a fake one. Either way I’m scared of them.) Three … [Read more...] about Rays 10, Red Sox 8: Time waits for Roman

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images If you’re driving eastbound on the Mass Pike right now, please be extra careful. Maybe stop reading this and put your phone down. And now we can all quit our whining: the 19th-best team in baseball has finally found room for the game’s number one prospect. Parkland, Florida’s Roman Joseph Anthony is en route to … [Read more...] about BREAKING: Red Sox call up Roman Anthony (finally)

WooSox Photo/Ashley Green / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images The Sox look to make it three wins in a row when they square off against the Rays back at Fenway. Roman Anthony will bat fifth. The Sox are back! (In town.) Are they Back? (In contention.) Tonight will be a key data point as Brayan Bello and Shane Baz go at it at 7:10 pm, the Sox looking for their third win … [Read more...] about Red Sox vs. Rays lineups: ROMAN ANTHONY ARRIVES

Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB Photos via Getty Images News and notes from around Red Sox Nation. The fact that Carlos Narvaez continues to be far and away the best Red Sox rookie in 2025 — the year that promised to be The Year of the Big Three— is worthy of an Alanis Morissette lyric. (Here you go, girl: It’s like rain on your wedding day / A Narv home run, when you called … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Carlos Narvaez is not getting enough Rookie of the Year love