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  1. With the Red Sox tumbling below .500 post-Devers trade, it looks like Boston might be sellers at the trade deadline. If that's the case, who should they consider moving?
  2. With the Red Sox tumbling below .500 post-Devers trade, it looks like Boston might be sellers at the trade deadline. If that's the case, who should they consider moving? View full video
  3. A fun little pitching matchup to wrap up June. Crochet has been carrying a heavy load this season.
  4. Thanks for creating the thread! Was traveling this morning.
  5. After sweeping the Yankees, the Red Sox were back in contention with a five-game losing streak. Then, they traded Devers, and it's been all downhill since.
  6. After sweeping the Yankees, the Red Sox were back in contention with a five-game losing streak. Then, they traded Devers, and it's been all downhill since. View full video
  7. I'd like to see Narvaez, myself. But, yea, the Bregman injury and Devers trade sapped a lot of juice out of this roster.
  8. When has a little six-game losing streak ever hurt anyone, huh? It's totally not a big deal that the Red Sox are falling out of contention right before the All-Star Game, right?
  9. If there was ever a time to make a final stand in the AL East, it begins today.
  10. My very good friend Derek — who is a die-hard Red Sox fan — is celebrating a milestone birthday today. If the Sox get swept by the Angels, he may never forgive them. I know that won't matter to the guys on the field, but it doesn't seem like anything else does right now, either.
  11. Back to .500. Again. Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
  12. The Red Sox could put some distance between themselves and one of the fringe AL Wild Card contenders this series. Might not sound that exciting, but it could prove to be important next month...
  13. If the Red Sox trade for Castillo before 4pm today, they can prevent him from starting against them. Just sayin'.
  14. Lost in everything — the Roman Anthony bomb, the Devers trade, etc — is that the pitching has been UNREAL recently. In this six-game win streak, the team has allowed eight runs total!
  15. Numb. Apathetic. Worse. How else to describe how this feels? All after sweeping the Yankees.
  16. Mookie Betts. Xander Bogaerts. Rafael Devers. The last three faces of the historic Boston Red Sox franchise, all World Series champions, are now playing out the remainder of their primes for the big dogs in the NL West. It's hard to talk about this with any semblance of emotional and analytical clarity, because the value that trio of superstars brought to Boston extended so far beyond the walls of Fenway. The Betts deal, which has been panned ad nauseam for the last half-decade, at least made an iota of sense if you squinted hard enough. An MVP winner in the final year of his deal, the Red Sox's competitive window with their current core had expired (supposedly), and thus, instead of paying him a record amount, the team flipped him for a bundle of prospects and MLB-ready pieces with upside. Even at the time, the return was thought to be weak — and it certainly hasn't aged well — but from a team-building perspective, the logic was understandable, even if the execution was so deeply flawed. This... this is harder to explain. Devers' contract doesn't expire until after the 2033 season, when the third baseman/designated hitter will be 36. He was the last remaining core pillar of that 2018 team, an in-his-prime slugger with superstar bonafides. In case 162-game averages of 33 home runs, 107 RBIs, and a 128 OPS+ aren't enough to make you swoon, he has a career .955 OPS in 26 postseason games, all played before he turned 25 years old. The San Francisco Giants, who have famously struggled for years to attract legitimate stars to their team, have now had one fall directly in their laps for a laughable acquisition cost. They benefit tremendously from a bizarre situation, one which only is made weirder by the fact that the Red Sox swept the rival New York Yankees mere hours before officially completing the deal. Against the Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, the team has gone 7-2 over their last nine, a stretch that has them back over .500 and in spitting distance of a Wild Card spot. This deal raises so, so many questions, both now and in the future. What does this mean for Alex Bregman's future, now that the team has opened up third base and plenty of salary over the long haul? How did the Red Sox get such a light haul for one of the sport's most recognizable players? What will the locker room reaction be to losing the team's premier star? Is the front office safe if the team falters in the second half? However, no question is more important than this: what will Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, Kristian Campbell, and every future star free agent think of the team's willingness to put its own ego over loyalty to its biggest stars? Even if Devers really did want out of Boston — which is rooted in the fractured relationship the front office has with him over the very public posturing during his position change to DH — this doesn't look good, no matter how the PR team will try to spin it. This is the Luka Dončić trade of baseball, and Craig Breslow is Nico Harrison. The 2025 season is now no longer the team's top priority, despite their recent flirtation with winning. The future is here, if only because the front office and ownership are forcing everyone to look forward. Grief — especially grief born of losing someone you've come to cherish — is never easy to handle, even in a large, communal setting. At least Red Sox fans can say they already know the feeling. View full article
  17. Mookie Betts. Xander Bogaerts. Rafael Devers. The last three faces of the historic Boston Red Sox franchise, all World Series champions, are now playing out the remainder of their primes for the big dogs in the NL West. It's hard to talk about this with any semblance of emotional and analytical clarity, because the value that trio of superstars brought to Boston extended so far beyond the walls of Fenway. The Betts deal, which has been panned ad nauseam for the last half-decade, at least made an iota of sense if you squinted hard enough. An MVP winner in the final year of his deal, the Red Sox's competitive window with their current core had expired (supposedly), and thus, instead of paying him a record amount, the team flipped him for a bundle of prospects and MLB-ready pieces with upside. Even at the time, the return was thought to be weak — and it certainly hasn't aged well — but from a team-building perspective, the logic was understandable, even if the execution was so deeply flawed. This... this is harder to explain. Devers' contract doesn't expire until after the 2033 season, when the third baseman/designated hitter will be 36. He was the last remaining core pillar of that 2018 team, an in-his-prime slugger with superstar bonafides. In case 162-game averages of 33 home runs, 107 RBIs, and a 128 OPS+ aren't enough to make you swoon, he has a career .955 OPS in 26 postseason games, all played before he turned 25 years old. The San Francisco Giants, who have famously struggled for years to attract legitimate stars to their team, have now had one fall directly in their laps for a laughable acquisition cost. They benefit tremendously from a bizarre situation, one which only is made weirder by the fact that the Red Sox swept the rival New York Yankees mere hours before officially completing the deal. Against the Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays, the team has gone 7-2 over their last nine, a stretch that has them back over .500 and in spitting distance of a Wild Card spot. This deal raises so, so many questions, both now and in the future. What does this mean for Alex Bregman's future, now that the team has opened up third base and plenty of salary over the long haul? How did the Red Sox get such a light haul for one of the sport's most recognizable players? What will the locker room reaction be to losing the team's premier star? Is the front office safe if the team falters in the second half? However, no question is more important than this: what will Roman Anthony, Marcelo Mayer, Kristian Campbell, and every future star free agent think of the team's willingness to put its own ego over loyalty to its biggest stars? Even if Devers really did want out of Boston — which is rooted in the fractured relationship the front office has with him over the very public posturing during his position change to DH — this doesn't look good, no matter how the PR team will try to spin it. This is the Luka Dončić trade of baseball, and Craig Breslow is Nico Harrison. The 2025 season is now no longer the team's top priority, despite their recent flirtation with winning. The future is here, if only because the front office and ownership are forcing everyone to look forward. Grief — especially grief born of losing someone you've come to cherish — is never easy to handle, even in a large, communal setting. At least Red Sox fans can say they already know the feeling.
  18. A three-game win streak. Six of the last eight. We have never been more back than we are right now. I am predicting a 44-run win tonight, since that will give the Sox a higher run differential than the Yankees.
  19. The pitching matchup is in our favor. Home field advantage is in our favor. All I'm saying is every sweep starts off with a win.
  20. The Midsummer Classic is a month away, and the Red Sox have a number of worthy candidates to represent Boston in the MLB All-Star Game. View full video
  21. The Midsummer Classic is a month away, and the Red Sox have a number of worthy candidates to represent Boston in the MLB All-Star Game.
  22. The best prospect in baseball has been called up by the Red Sox, and now the team must decide who will make room for him. View full video
  23. The best prospect in baseball has been called up by the Red Sox, and now the team must decide who will make room for him.
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