At BP Boston, we’re planning on bringing serious, thoughtful analysis to Red Sox fans each and every day. From advanced stats to scouting reports to thought-provoking opinion pieces, we hope to produce a variety of material that caters to the hardcore fan. We’re also going to do stuff like this. At least once a week, […]
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Read Sox: Buchholz Balls, Ramirez Rakes and Shanf Starts
Welcome to Read Sox, a weekly column in which the BP Boston staff will aim to highlight some of the best Red Sox-related writing from around the web. From game stories to podcasts to player profiles to odds-and-ends pieces and more, any piece of Red Sox content that caught our eyes or ears, made us laugh […]
Welcome to BP Boston
If you enjoy the Red Sox, baseball in general and the internet, we hope BP Boston is the site for you. The goal of this project is, on the surface, pretty simple. We want to take the quality analysis, polished tone, unique perspective and all-encompassing approach to baseball writing that our mother site, Baseball Prospectus, […]
How Much Will the Red Sox Miss Christian Vazquez's Pitch Framing?
The loss of Christian Vazquez for the season to Tommy John surgery is a big one for the Red Sox. Though some hoped he would develop as a hitter, the Red Sox weren’t expecting much offensive production. Instead, much of his value was to come from his ability to frame pitches. Last season, his total […]
Turning Twosday: Mookie and Clay, Survivors of Game 162
[Editor’s note: Turning Twosday is a weekly column from Bryan Joiner in which Bryan explores two players/events/themes, related or unrelated, within the Red Sox universe. Yes, this site is launching on a Wednesday, but Monday’s game was too damn fun not to have Bryan write about, and so here we are. Enjoy!] It was an inauspicious start […]
Christian Vazquez and the Troubling Track Record of Catchers and Tommy John Surgery
One of the few nice surprises about Boston’s 2014 campaign was Christian Vazquez. Specifically, the young backstop emerged as a viable big-league starter during his age-23 season, proving that if you can frame pitches well, play solid defense, and hit just a little better than Tony Pena did with the Sox, then you can be […]