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The Red Sox and Jaocby Ellsbury agreed to a 1-year, $8.05 million deal for the 2012 MLB season, thereby avoiding arbitration.  Ellsbury had a monster 2011 and deserved the big raise from his “modest” $2.4 million salary. On the other side of the spectrum, however, the Red Sox and David Ortiz are still $4 million [...]

The Red Sox could be close to signing veteran starter Hiroki Kuroda to a short-term deal.  Kuroda would fill in the 4-5 slot along side Daniel Bard and after Josh Beckett, Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester.  Kuroda is durable despite being 36-years old – he has made at least 30 starts in each of the [...]

Wow – I did not realize that Bailey is as injury prone as his numbers show.  42 games in 2011; 47 games in 2010.  Not good.  His WHIP and ERA have gone up in each season since he broke out on the scene with a stellar 2009 season – 68 games, 6-3 record, 26 saves, [...]

The Red Sox acquired Mark Melancon in a trade with the Houston Astros for Jed Lowrie and Kyle Weiland.  Melancon is a strong, young (26-years old) pitcher who will be under the team’s control for the next 4 years. Melancon made 71 appearances for the Astros in 2011 – 20 saves, 2.78 ERA, 66 K’s, [...]

GM Ben Cherington has all but said the Red Sox will not go after a big name starting pitcher free agent like C.J. Wilson or Mark Buehrle.  So does that mean Daniel Bard is a “lock” to become a starter in 2012?  We’ll have to see how it all plays out, but that could be [...]

Wow – that wasn’t fun.  The Red Sox held on for an 8-7 win over the O’s and stayed tied with the Rays for the Al Wild Card Lead.  Catcher Ryan Lavarnway – who has given the Red Sox a much-needed power boost behind the plate – homered twice in the win.  His 3-run bomb [...]

The Yankees used a 3-run rally off of Alfredo Aceves and Daniel Bard in the 7th inning to take the rubber game of the 3-game series 4-2.  The win pushed the Yankees back within one half game of the Red Sox for 1st place in the AL East race. Jon Lester labored through 5 innings [...]

Not the way you want to play on get-away day, especially when it’s Sunday Night ESPN baseball and you have a game in Baltimore the next night.  The Red Sox out-lasted the Rays in 16 innings last night/this morning, beating the Rays 1-0 on Dustin Pedroia’s 2-out single.  Josh Reddick led off the inning with [...]

It was not a good weekend for the Red Sox in Pittsburgh.  After dropping the 1st 2 games, the Red Sox “backed into” a 4-2 win behind a great starting effort from Andrew Miller.  3 of the 4 runs scored by the Red Sox were unearned.  They scored their 1st unearned run in the 4th [...]

The Red Sox dropped a 5-4 roller coaster ride game to the Padres on Tuesday despite out-hitting San Diego 13-7.  The Red Sox had 10 hits and 4 walks against starter Mat Latos but managed to score only 4 ER in his 5+ innings of work.  After taking a 1-0 1st inning lead, the Padres [...]