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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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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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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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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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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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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