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Toronto Blue Jays: How to sabotage the AL East

March 21, 2020 Jack Ramsden Baseball, Team Contributors

[Note: Whilst drafting this COVID-19 has put the entire upcoming MLB season in serious doubt. Whilst the following may not even be relevant now and feels kind of pointless given the seriousness of the pandemic, I hope this post at

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

A look at Red Sox draft picks.

March 5, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Pinch Hitting

Spring Training is in full swing now but we’re still waiting to see how far behind Chris Sale is on the season (Ed – News just out, looks like he’s avoiding TJ…for now.) and if the inquiry into the Red

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

Setbacks, rotation early topics of Red Sox spring training

March 3, 2020 Greg Desrosiers Baseball, Team Contributors

Spring training is prime time for overreactions. From veterans showing poor performances as they continue to shake off the cobwebs to unknown, undrafted non-roster invitees mashing, we watch each pitch and every at-bat meticulously thinking it has any bearing on

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

Boston Red Sox 2020: Reasons for optimism

February 25, 2020 Jay Cohen Baseball, Team Contributors

What happened in 2019? After what was a record-breaking season for Alex Cora’s Red Sox, expectations were still high, with their only big loss in the offseason being closer Craig Kimbrel. The Sox didn’t live up to expectations, however, with

Baseball journey … hint, it ends well

February 9, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Guest writer

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

No Mookie, no Price, but at least Guns and Roses are playing

February 7, 2020 Bat Flips Admin Baseball, Guest writer

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

Did six teams win in the Mookie Betts deal?

February 5, 2020 Gavin Baseball, Opinion

With the dust still settling from the blockbuster trade that sent Mookie Betts from one coast of the USA to the other, it seems like the deal was a win-win-win-win-win-win for six teams. Is that even possible? The big winners