Posts Tagged ‘Boston Red Sox’

Yankees Waiting on Pujols and Mauer?

Yankees Waiting on Pujols and Mauer?
Uh….  what? Pujols is talking a good game with the Cardinals. But can he really ignore the 10-year, $27.5 million-per-year deal that Alex Rodriguez got from the Yankees two years ago, when he was older than Pujols will be when his contract ends after the 2011 season? The difficulties tying up...
January 4th, 2010 | Columns, Featured | Read More

The Vazquez Trade: The Day After

The Vazquez Trade: The Day After
It’s the day after the Yankees traded for Javier Vazquez and the fans are split.  I’ve heard and read a lot of different opinions over the last two days about this trade and thought it was worth addressing a few of them. 1. Melky Cabrera. A lot of people are treating Melky Cabrera like the...
December 23rd, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Vazquez To The Yankees: Our Analysis

Vazquez To The Yankees: Our Analysis
Ian: When the Red Sox improved their rotation last week, acquiring the services of arguably the best starting pitcher on the free agent market in John Lackey, Yankee fans fretted.  Suddenly the Sox boasted a rotation brimming with three number-one starter types in Jon Lester, Josh Beckett, and Lackey. ...
December 22nd, 2009 | Articles, Columns, Featured | Read More

Doc Halladay Back in the Mix

Doc Halladay Back in the Mix
ESPN’s Rumor Central highlights the latest news on Roy Halladay: At the just-concluded general managers meetings, Blue Jays GM Alex Anthopoulos likely heard plenty of opinions on what to do with Roy Halladay. If the Jays decide to move Halladay, Mark Feinsand of the New York Daily News says it...
November 12th, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Wrapping Up the World Series

Wrapping Up the World Series
It had all the makings of high drama. Andy Pettitte, a homegrown pitcher, a man perennially on the verge of retirement, throwing on three days rest. Pedro Martinez, a relic from another era when the Yankees seemed like they could do no wrong. It felt like a game straight out of 1999, when the Yankees...
November 5th, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Yanks in Little Danger of Losing AL East

Yanks in Little Danger of Losing AL East
As the Yankees head out to the west coast to begin the final leg of the regular season, the Chicken Littles of the press are using this slow news day to extol the worst case scenarios ahead. Don’t listen to them.  While there is a remote, remote possibility that the Yankees could somehow collapse...
September 18th, 2009 | Featured | Read More

Red Sox Are the New Yankees

Red Sox Are the New Yankees
Remember when it was the Yankees who snapped up people at the deadline, usually eating a decent amount of cash to relieve some team from two months and a few million dollars?  People used to complain that the Yankees were just flexing their financial muscle and taking advantage of other teams. Well,...
August 25th, 2009 | Quick Hits | Read More

Damon in 2010 and beyond

Damon in 2010 and beyond
Johnny Damon’s current contract ends after this season, which leaves the Yankees with an interesting dilemma. Do you resign him, and for how long? First, lets go back to his signing 4 years ago. I was against this signing. Not because he was a member of the Sox, but because he was 32. I didn’t...
August 15th, 2009 | The Bullpen | Read More

Don’t Retire Smoltz Just Yet

Don’t Retire Smoltz Just Yet
People have been saying it, Tweeting it, blogging it, thinking it since about 9:00 PM last night: It’s hard to watch John Smoltz pitch like this. Obviously, I’m a Yankee fan, so it wasn’t too hard to watch Smoltz pitch poorly last night.  Actually, it was a sigh of relief to see the...
August 7th, 2009 | Columns | Read More

Revised: Manny (and Ortiz) Tested Positive; We’re Here for You, Red Sox Nation

Revised: Manny (and Ortiz) Tested Positive; We’re Here for You, Red Sox Nation
As a courtesy to our readers, we are updating a previous article chronicling Manny Ramirez’s 2009 positive PED test and our support for Red Sox Nation. Via ESPN: Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz were among the 104 major league players listed as having tested positive for performance-enhancing substances...
July 31st, 2009 | Columns | Read More

Same old Story for the Yankees – Pay Now Win Later

Same old Story for the Yankees – Pay Now Win Later
The Boston Red Sox are in the lead in the tight American League East. The Blue Jays aren’t that far behind. Right in the middle sit the New York Yankees, a team embroiled in the financial pressure of selling tickets to their new billion-dollar home as the most expensive roster in the MLB continues...
June 11th, 2009 | Columns | Read More

Manny Tested Positive; We’re Here for You, Red Sox Nation

Manny Tested Positive; We’re Here for You, Red Sox Nation
Via ESPN: Major League Baseball is expected to announce Thursday that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended for 50 games, The Los Angeles Times is reporting. Ramirez’s test result and suspension are expected to be...
May 7th, 2009 | Columns | Read More

A-Rod Brings the Laughter

A-Rod Brings the Laughter
The gutteral cackling could be heard across the Charles River, down I-95 past the clanging bandits of the Indian casinos, along the New York Throughway and into an unfinished coliseum of Goliath proportions.  It was the final FU from a five year old debt, partially paid back with four games of utter...
February 7th, 2009 | Columns | Read More

Baldelli and Smoltz Good Risks for Sox

Baldelli and Smoltz Good Risks for Sox
Various reports have John Smoltz and Rocco Baldelli inking deals with the Red Sox.  Both players carry a bit of risk: Smoltz is coming off of shoulder surgery and probably won’t be Major League ready until the end of May, while Baldelli was recently re-diagnosed after believing he suffered from...
January 8th, 2009 | Columns | Read More

Varitek is Worth the Gamble?

In a moment of desperatation to come up with some baseball news today, I stumbled upon this piece at the Boston Globe: The Red Sox offered arbitration to two of their free agents, catcher Jason Varitek and pitcher Paul Byrd, before last night’s midnight deadline to do so. Varitek and Byrd are the...
December 2nd, 2008 | Columns | Read More