In a blog post earlier this week, I noted that I should be more excited about the Boston Red Sox this season. This is my 22nd year as a Sawx fan and for the first time, I’m living in New England on Opening Day. But the locals are known for being pretty demanding of their […]
It’s the first year of the post-David Ortiz era for the Boston Red Sox. Ortiz was the single common thread connecting a trio of World Series champions spread out over a decade and he went out with a bang last season. That’s a lot to live up to, but the 2017 Boston Red Sox have […]
The Boston Red Sox wrapped up what’s been an overwhelmingly disappointing season today in Cleveland. The Red Sox opened the year as the betting favorite to win the American League pennant, with the media infatuated by the signings of Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez. A terrible first half quickly took the Sox off the national […]
So now it’s about picking up the pieces and going forward. What does Boston have to build on? Fortunately, there are some good building blocks…
I think the point can best be made by comparing Lester to Los Angeles Dodgers’ starter Zack Greinke, who was on the market prior to the 2013 season. Greinke got a six-year deal with nearly $160 million—more than twice the total value of the offer made to Lester, and nearly $2.5 million higher on a per-year basis.
Should the Boston Red Sox throw in the towel, tank the rest of the 2014 season and try and get prospects for their veteran players? That was a question this Red Sox fan received via text message this week from a friend.
The Boston Red Sox won their third World Series title in ten years in 2013. The Red Sox completed a worst-to-first turnaround and did it for a city that was scarred by the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing in April. Does the magic dust disappear in 2014 or do the Sawx again make a run at October glory? Here’s the Notebook Nine, our nine key talking points for the season on the favorite team and city of TheSportsNotebook…
TheSportsNotebook is going to keep with the cross-sports theme and take a look at the race for that most coveted of honors–most successful sports fan base–and see how the 2013 race is progressing. It’s particularly relevant in this context, because it all might come down to the ultimate fate of Bill Belichick, Tom Brady and the Patriots.
Is there any hope left for the Toronto Blue Jays and the Boston Red Sox in the American League wild-card race? The two AL East teams were on the fringes of contention when the week began, hanging 5 and 4.5 games out respectively. But each has missed significant opportunities to capitalize. The Jays were swept by Tampa Bay when the last three games gave Toronto a chance to gain ground on one of the five teams that are packed within a game or so of the two wild-card spots in the American League playoffs. Boston wrapped up a 10-game homestand by losing two of three to Texas and finishing 4-6 for the sequence of games that was supposed to kickstart an August push. Both teams began 2012 with October expectations. TheSportsNotebook examines what went wrong and whether we should indeed stick a fork in both teams…