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Author: Richard Hampson

The Joy of The Closer

April 16, 2021 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

I absolutely love watching a dedicated closer pitch.  The sheer drama that goes with it is, to my mind, fantastic.  It becomes a baseball game in a microcosm almost, with the result boiled down to a single half-inning (I know it

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How does the Red Sox 2021 Outfield Stack up to THAT 2018 one?

April 1, 2021 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

It’s been said quite frequently recently that the Red Sox have now lost their championship-winning outfield from 2018 with Mookie Betts, Andrew Benintendi and Jackie Bradley Jr. all moving on to pastures new in the past two years. That 2018

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Review of the Red Sox Opening Home Stand

July 30, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

Well, the Red Sox opening home stretch is over and I think it’s safe to say that it was not as bad as we’d feared. It was worse. Much, much worse. Much had been said in the offseason and Spring

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It’s more than the baseball I miss about baseball

March 22, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

I set out with the intention of writing an article about how I miss baseball, and I do really miss baseball. But then I realised it’s not baseball I miss, at least not just baseball, it’s sport. I really miss

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The NeverEnding Story IV: The Boston Red Sox Investigation

March 16, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

What do the dates 12 November 2019 and 7 January 2020 have in common? It was 12 November that the Athletic broke the story about the Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal, a few days after which Major League Baseball announced a

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Would Wil Myers to the Red Sox make sense?

March 4, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Team Contributors

There are trades that make sense from a baseball point of view; there are trades that make sense from an economic point of view. Does the potential Wil Myers trade to the Red Sox make sense from either standpoint? My

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The open(er) question of the Red Sox’s fifth starter

February 26, 2020 Richard Hampson Baseball, Opinion, Team Contributors

Spring training is underway but, as is the wont for the early stages, there’s a veritable pick’n’mix of pitchers being employed with no-one pitching more than a couple of innings at a time. While this approach gives everyone the chance

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