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Charlie Hoke

Six Down Years

If your batting average declines each year for 6 years straight, can you stay in the big leagues? Although there are many new and more advanced statistics, batting average is still a useful measure of a player's ability. Is 6 consecutive years of declining batting average irreversible? Red Sox Dave Stapleton, an infielder who played from 1980-1986, is the only MLB player who played at least seven years whose batting average declined each year throughout his career. [1] From a
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Charlie Hoke

Why was Rafael Devers reluctant to move to 1st base?

When asked to move positions, why is there is a natural reluctance? From a team perspective, it seems like an ego issue, but it may be more complex than that. During Spring Training of 2025, Rafael Devers was moved to Designated Hitter to allow newly signed free agent Gold Glove 3rd baseman Alex Bregman to play the Hot Corner. At the age of 28 and having played regularly at no other position than 3rd base, Rafael Devers balked at becoming a full-time designated hitter. He viewed this as cri
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Charlie Hoke

Vern Stephens - Red Sox shortstop - forgotten by the Hall of Fame

Who holds the single season record for RBIs for a shortstop? You may think it would be held by a Hall of Famer like Honus Wagner, Ernie Banks or Cal Ripken, or a recent retired star like Alex Rodriguez, Miguel Tejada, or Derek Jeter, but no, the record is held by Red Sox Vern Stephens and was set in 1949. That year, batting behind Ted Williams, Vern Stephens had 159 RBIs and it was the first of two consecutive years when Stephens tied for the league lead in RBIs. This RBI total was the high
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Charlie Hoke

Ted Williams could have been even better

Ted Williams had a great career, but did this 1950 injury hurt him more than the two interruptions for military service during World War 2 and the Korean War? Three full years and close to two more years were cut short from his baseball career, yet a mid-career injury might have affected him more. The missing years often are said to have cost him the chance to have higher career totals and preventing him from getting to 3,000 hits and 600 home runs, In 1950 at the All-Star Break,
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Battle Your Tail Off

Bring City Connect Swag To Your Red Sox Collection With FOCO’s New Bobblehead Launch

FOCO is a partner with Talk Sox and support of their products helps support this site; 100% of the funds/materials received from these promotions go directly to our users in the form of prizes and gifts. It’s time to play ball, but in some brand-new, swagged-out uniforms.  The world-famous Fenway Park: Home of our beloved Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox’s famously known ballpark has been the Red Sox home for baseball for the last 113 years, that’s over a century, which is crazy to think ab
Charlie Hoke

Jim Rice's Unbreakable Record

Hall of Famer Jim Rice set a record that may never be broken. As a rookie in 1975, Rice, together with Fred Lynn, shared the nickname the "Gold Dust Twins" for their great performance and future potential. Jim Rice fulfilled that promise with consecutive spectacular seasons from 1977 to 1979, achieving a feat that had not been done before or duplicated since. During 3 consecutive years, 1977, 1978, and 1979, Jim Rice is the only player in MLB history to achieve these 5 statistical acc
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Battle Your Tail Off

Dreaming Of Baseball Writing? Create A Blog With Talk Sox!

1. Create Your Blog When you click the Blogs section on the top menu, you'll be taken to a list of most the most recent entries from our community. At the top of this feed you'll see the "Create a Blog" button. Click it and you'll be asked to enter a few high-level details: the title of your blog within the site (i.e., "John's Red Sox Blog" or something more clever/creative), a brief description, and the category it will belong to (if you're not sure, just pick "General"). To hop on over
Battle Your Tail Off

It's The Offseason So That Means "You're The Red Sox GM!"; The 2025 Payroll Blueprint Tool Has Released

Every offseason, we offer our You’re The GM! tool (formerly the Payroll Blueprint) to build your ideal Red Sox roster. This year, we’ve updated and streamlined the tool a bit to improve the experience. The idea behind this feature is to give fans a chance to play the role of General Manager (or CBO or PoBO… you get the idea) for their favorite team, the Boston Red Sox. It’s meant to give fans the opportunity to discuss (and, let’s be honest, argue) how they would approach the long, dark MLB
Battle Your Tail Off

Talk Sox Tips & Tricks: The Feed!

As opposed to the previous default state of the site, you may want to set a custom feed as your Talk Sox landing page. It's that useful. Instead of having to click through the (kinda insanely large now) site, you can tailor a feed to show basically whatever you want: select authors, topics you've followed, fellow users, unread content only... the list goes on. First, to find your personal feed, near the top right of the screen you will see a newspaper icon in the red bar below your user inf
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Battle Your Tail Off

Talk Sox Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables!

Talk Sox Tips & Tricks, Part One: Tables! With this series of blog entries, I'm going to try to cover some of the features of the new site in a few paragraphs. Using the old site, as I'm sure many of you are aware, tables were basically unusable. That has changed! I'll tackle B-Ref tables quickly in this post but you can do similar things with FanGraphs or other sites that use table data (which is how almost all stat sites display their content). First, pop on over to Rafael Dever''s B-Ref p
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Michel1960's Blog

Me and 12 other visitors at our local baseball park

Baseball overhere in Holland is just a little sport. Most attention goes to soccer, speedskating and speed cycling. Nevertheless,our national team has a rich history aswell as several team. Media attention is verty poor, Somtimes with a little luck we see our Kingdom of the Netherlands fellow countryman Xander Bogaerts for a few seconds on national tv. Last saturday I was at our local baseball park to cover a homegame from our The Hawks team. Only me and twelf other people wrre there.A real
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Michel1960's Blog

At least I got my BRS jersey

Living in a small country like Holland, MLB merchandise is difficult to get. Okay, we do have FootLocker, but there only are caps available. But now, finaly I got a Red Sox jersey.It took some time, but who cares now…!
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PaulaSox9's Blog

Who would you Consider The Greatest Player Of All-Time For The Red Sox

Please view the following 20 Players. Please feel free to add any sox player whom you feel should have been added.   1.Carl Yastremski 2.Roger Clemens 3.Carlton Fisk 4.Johnny Pesky 5.Jim Rice 6.David "Big Papi" Ortiz 7.Jason Varitek 8.Ted Williams 9.Wade Boggs 10.Nomar Garciaparra 11. Bobby Doerr 12.Babe Ruth 13. Jimmie Foxx 14.Manny Ramirez 15.Tris Speaker 16.Dwight Evans 17.Pedro Martinez 18.Kevin Millar 19.Bill Lee 20.John Lester
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