Articles tagged with: baseball
Pop quiz: which Red Sox player has the highest batting average so far this season?
Is it V-Mart? Pedroia? Another one of the usual suspects?
Believe it or not, it’s Jason Varitek. Yes, the veteran catcher—who, you …
For all the talk about the struggling Red Sox offense, you’d think that was the reason why the restructured team is off to such a miserable start this season.
Actually, though, it’s Boston’s starting pitchers who …
Baseball, more than any other sport, perhaps more than any other profession besides politics, is constantly beleaguered by the question, “What have you done for me lately?”
In a game where statistics are sacred, where every …
After five and a half years away from Boston, Nomar Garciaparra, returned to the Red Sox yesterday, if only for a few hours.
The legendary shortstop, whose first name (pronounced, affectionately, No-mah) was once synonymous with …
The long offseason saga of Jason Bay’s free agency is drawing to a close, for the Red Sox at least. With the signing earlier this week of free agent outfielder Mike Cameron to a two …
The Red Sox may have just constructed the league’s best starting rotation for next season.
Early reports indicate that free agent John Lackey is on the verge of signing a 5 year, $85 million deal with …
It wasn’t a trade, but it sure looked like one.
Less than a week after losing free agent shortstop Alex Gonzalez to the Toronto Blue Jays, the Red Sox struck a deal to bring former Jays’ …
The bidding war is officially on for Blue Jays ace and former Cy Young Award winner, Roy Halladay—and according to several sources, the Red Sox are right in the thick of it.
Citing unnamed sources, The …
Author’s Note: As this post went up, the Red Sox announced Jason Varitek’s decision to re-sign with the team for the 2010 season. Good timing, eh?
With the much anticipated—though ultimately unsurprising—announcement on Monday that Victor …
Derek Jeter has a fist fulla rings.So too do Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera, and Andy Pettite.
Once again: each man, to himself, has a full hand-worth of rings. World Series rings.
To put that in perspective, each …
