Red Sox Rundown

Just wanted to post a short note and apologize for the unannounced break. I went on vacation (to Cooperstown, NY to visit the Baseball Hall of Fame) and have been busy since returning. I hope to return to blogging around May 11.
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Did you ever see the movie Catch Me if You Can? The movie is the mostly-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr, who, in the movie, ran away from home in the 1960s at the age of sixteen and forged his way through several years of his life, pretending to be an airline pilot, a doctor, an attorney, [...]

Take yourself back to October 16, 2004. The Red Sox have just lost the third game of the American League Championship Series to the New York Yankees in humiliating fashion, 19-8. You threw the 2004 season in the same bin as 1946, 1967 1975, 1978, and 1986. Good, but just not good enough. Darn that [...]

Boston Dirt Dogs recently posted an article written by Chris Paddock for Maple Street Press’s Red Sox Annual on the apparent lack of power hitters in the Sox farm system. Paddock points out that “since 1990, only three players drafted by the Sox have hit more than 25 home runs in a major league season: [...]

The Red Sox unconditionally released catcher Josh Bard today, placing him on waivers that essentially place him back into free agency. Theo Epstein stated that the backup catcher job is George Kottaras’s to lose after apparently winning the position battle this spring.
Bard’s spring numbers, though, have been superior to Kottaras’s. Bard hit .429 in six games [...]

With the USA trailing Puerto Rico in the World Baseball Classic, 5-3, with only the bottom of the ninth left to play, it’s time for us here at Red Sox Rundown to move to a new topic of discussion. Regardless of your feelings on the WBC, you must admit it relieves some of the doldrums of [...]

The biggest news in Red Sox Nation of late is the Jonathan Papelbon interview published today in Esquire magazine. Paps has come under some criticism for the manner in which he blasted Manny Ramirez, saying all the things Red Sox fans have been saying since last summer but which the players have mostly kept to [...]

Mark Kotsay, after undergoing back surgery in the beginning of January shortly after signing a new one-year deal with the Red Sox, will be out of the lineup until at least the beginning of May. His versatility, what made him so attractive to the Sox in the first place, also causes a slight problem for the [...]

Red Sox Nation is rightfully exciting about the upcoming season. We have veterans on the mend, pitching aplenty, and young guys than an elementary school playground.
While the Red Sox didn’t land any big-name free agents this offseason, they reeled in more than enough “low-risk, high reward” (are you sick of that phrase yet?) players to [...]

Manny Ramirez has signed with the Dodgers, making him the one of precious few big-name free agents not signed by the New York Yankees this offseason.
JD Drew has a bad back.
Brad Penny has “shoulder weakness.”
It’s time for some good news, Red Sox Nation. How does this headline grab you: Lester Wins 2009 AL Cy Young.
Yep, you heard [...]