Flash back two months, and most commentators and evaluators had completely written off the Boston Red Sox. Vultures were ready to pluck clean the arid corpse of a 10-19 team, with the likes of Nathan Eovaldi, J.D. Martinez and even
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Five Way Too Early Takeaways from MLB Opening Weekend
As the old baseball saying goes, three or four games is far too few to glean anything in baseball – small sample sizes and all that – still the Orioles are already 0-3 and dead last in the AL East
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Alex Cora Didn’t Miss A Beat in 2021
It’s the second week of December, and I’ve fully digested the fact that my beloved 2021 Boston Red Sox came up just 18.0 victorious innings shy of their fifth World Series appearance of my lifetime— yeah, I know, what a
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Red Sox Farm System Coming Into Bloom?
Welcome to our new Red Sox contributor Richard Banks… Prospects in the game of baseball have never been valued higher, and for good reason – nearly every World Series winner over the last decade has had a top rated farm
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MLB Heading Back to the UK Next Year – London Mayor Sadiq Khan
Speculation has been rife in the European baseball community as to whether the COVID cancellation of the planned 2020 London Series between the Chicago Cubs and St. Louis Cardinals would leave Major League Baseball grasping a mere ‘cup of coffee’
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Baseball journey … hint, it ends well
It’s summer 1978 in monochrome, impoverished North East England; a time of power cuts, incessant industrial action and an England football team that had failed to make the World Cup in Argentina. Fast-forward a couple of months, and I’m living
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No Mookie, no Price, but at least Guns and Roses are playing
Nobody wants to see me recreate the famous Spider Jerusalem column. Still, as I see it, Mookie Betts and David Price have escaped, fled to Los Angeles in a trade that doesn’t seem any more likely to yield a quality
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State of the Red Sox
It’s tough to know exactly what the Boston Red Sox are playing at, and what sort of discipline this team will face for the signal-stealing that led them to part ways with Alex Cora. We do see a lot of
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Three possible mystery teams in the Harper stakes
News will break shortly that the largest ever MLB free agent contract has been agreed. Will Bryce Harper sign it with one of the frontrunners or is there a mystery team? The favourites to land the superstar are the “spending
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ARod Declares MLB London Ticket Rush Officially ‘Open’ (Soon)
MLB Legend and Former Yankee Alex ‘BaeRod’ Rodriguez was in London today for the news we’ve all been waiting for – an announcement of the opening of ticket sales for next year’s MLB London Series, heretofore and forever known as
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