https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/page/54/?d=21enhttps://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/red-sox-road-trip-no-8-independence-day-in-dc-r2292/Washington Nationals - July 4-6 Nationals Park - Capacity 41,339 2024 Attendance: 1,967,302 (Averaged 24,287, ranked 13th out of NL parks and 22nd overall) Boston last made the short trip to the nation's capital in August of 2023, and they started strong with a 5-4 victory before servin...2292Sat, 08 Feb 2025 15:17:02 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/how-do-the-red-sox-stack-up-against-their-al-east-competition-in-2025-r2294/Baltimore Orioles Rotation: The Orioles suffered a significant loss with the departure of ace Corbin Burnes, who signed a six-year, $210 million contract with the Arizona Diamondbacks. However, they bolstered their rotation by signing Tomoyuki Sugano, a 35-year-old veteran who spent his 12-...2294Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:52:02 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/red-sox-road-trip-no-7-endurance-tripping-r2291/Seattle Mariners - June 16-18 T-Mobile Park: Capacity 47,929 2024 Attendance: 2,555,813 (Averaged 31,553, seventh in AL, 14th overall) The Red Sox opened the 2024 season in the Pacific Northwest, and they left Seattle with two wins and two losses after starting and ending the four-game...2291Wed, 05 Feb 2025 15:08:02 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/will-jarren-duran-hit-a-wall-in-2025-r2293/Let’s start off with a graph, shall we? This is straight from Jarren Duran’s player page on FanGraphs. The point I‘m trying to make by leading off with it is that Duran's stardom came out of nowhere. In his first two stints with the Red Sox in 2021 and 2022, Duran put up negative WAR...2293Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:58:00 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/red-sox-road-trip-no-6-evil-empire-state-of-mind-r2290/New York Yankees - June 6-8 Yankee Stadium - Capacity 46,537 2024 Attendance: 3,309,838 (Averaged 41,896, ranked 1st in AL, second overall) In 2024, the Red Sox entered the enemy's lair seven times and came away victorious in three of them. The first July game saw an extra-inning win an...2290Tue, 04 Feb 2025 15:03:01 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/will-the-red-sox-throw-the-fewest-fastballs-again-in-2025-r2289/During the 2024 season, the Red Sox didn’t just throw the fewest fastballs in the league; they came in last by a lot. Four-seamers and sinkers made up just 36.9% of Boston’s pitches. That was more than 10 percentage points below the league average of 47.7%. No other team was below 42%, and 10 di...2289Tue, 04 Feb 2025 11:50:02 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/making-the-hall-of-fame-case-for-luis-tiant-r2288/Last week, I took a look at Dwight Evans’ Hall of Fame case and made the argument for his well-deserved election into Cooperstown. Yet Evans is hardly the only Red Sox player who has been overlooked by the Hall of Fame voters, so today, I will make the case for pitching great Luis Tiant to earn...2288Mon, 03 Feb 2025 15:34:02 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/seven-random-predictions-for-the-2025-red-sox-season-r2286/A lot can happen over the course of 162 games. Good moments, bad moments, some weird and unusual, and some never before seen feats, all over the course of 162. From inside-the-park home runs to the number of times Alex Cora gets ejected, here are seven random predictions for the 2025 Red Sox sea...2286Mon, 03 Feb 2025 11:53:01 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/what-should-rob-refsnyders-role-be-for-the-red-sox-in-2025-r2284/I already know what the first few comments will say, and yes, I did leave Rob Refsnyder off my first 2025 Red Sox roster projection. I made my case for that decision in the comments, and I was hoping Boston’s group of right-handed hitters would look different. They don’t, so I’m sorry Rob. If I...2284Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:33:00 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/will-the-red-sox-let-wilyer-abreu-face-left-handed-pitching-r2283/Alex Cora spent pretty much the entire 2024 season protecting Wilyer Abreu from left-handed pitchers. The rookie started just six games against lefties all season, and only one of them came after May. Of his 447 plate appearances, 18% came against lefties, one of the lowest rates in all of baseb...2283Fri, 31 Jan 2025 11:52:34 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/steamers-new-splits-projections-for-the-red-sox-arent-pretty-r2282/Here at Talk Sox, we have been writing for months about how the Red Sox need to balance their lineup with a right-handed hitter. We were writing about it before Tyler O’Neill left, and we’re still writing about it now that he’s an Oriole. If you Google the phrase “right-handed power,” the first...2282Thu, 30 Jan 2025 11:58:01 +0000https://talksox.com/news-rumors/boston-red-sox/for-the-red-sox-one-year-deals-are-the-order-of-the-day-r2281/For the second year in a row, this was the offseason when the Red Sox were going to turn it all around. They were going to put the pedal to the metal, sign all the big free agents, and get back to competing for a World Series trophy. However, it hasn’t exactly happened just yet, and that sounds...2281Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:57:02 +0000