Welcome to another edition of Read Sox. This week we’ll look at Hanley Ramirez’s woeful transition to the outfield, David Ortiz’s beef with Jim Palmer and how the Red Sox may have the next Carlos Beltran in their farm system. Going Deep Hanley Ramirez’s adjustment to left field took a rocky turn over the weekend […]
Tag: Clay Buchholz
Clay Buchholz and the Tale of Two Starts
For the first time in his career Clay Buchholz was Boston’s Opening Day starter. Starting on Opening Day doesn’t mean much in the specific, but in the aggregate it means the Red Sox are depending a lot on Clay Buchholz. This could be great or terrible because Buchholz has had both great and terrible seasons […]
Weekend Preview: Red Sox vs. Orioles
Welcome to our second edition of the Weekend Preview. Hopefully you find the sequel just as good as the original. After a home opening series that saw an abundance of runs – and some forgettable pitching – the Red Sox continue their first homestand of the season with four games against the defending AL East […]
Weekend Preview: Red Sox vs. Yankees, Part I
Hey there everyone, and welcome to the first edition of our Weekend Preview series! These articles will take a look at the weekend series for the entire season until there’s no more baseball ever again. That’s right. This ride is never-ending. Enjoy it. For the first weekend this season, the opponent is the Joker to […]
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 […]
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 […]