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Photo by Scott Vogel/Newsday RM via Getty Images He’s there when you need him. Even professional chefs don’t cook for themselves every day. Sometimes you need to sit back and go to old reliable: In my case it’s Dunkin’ Donuts, and in the case of the Red Sox it is, of course, Rafael Devers, the guy who his 30 homers every year, smiling through it all, no matter what. * I … [Read more...] about Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Devers’s Dunkin’ Donuts

More or less this. | Photo by Scott Suchman for The Washington Post via Getty Images; food styling by Lisa Cherkasky for The Washington Post via Getty Images What do you make for the guy who has everything? A dish that has everything. Triston Casas, whom the Sox should not trade, has it all: the talent, the looks, the charm. He’s also quite the chef. In honor of our … [Read more...] about Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Casas’s Cupboard Chicken

In! | Photo by Otto Greule Jr/Getty Images And the winners are... These players are all on the National Baseball Hall of Fame ballot this year, and they’ve all made it into my own personal Hall of Fame too. Players can take their place in my HOF for various reasons, some of them nefarious. We’ll learn how they fare in the sanctioned voting in a couple of weeks, but … [Read more...] about Ballot for My Own Personal Hall of Fame

Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Let’s go Red Sox TGIF. Happy weekend. It’s Fenway Fest tomorrow. The Red Sox did do some stuff this winter. And the Big Three are in tact and close to MLB. There are reasons to get excited. Another bullpen arm, some right-handed power (and obviously choosing a top-end free agent starting pitcher before that ship … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 1/10-1/12: Fenway Fest

Photo by John Fisher/Getty Images If you trade for Boardwalk, then you need to be willing to pay and put hotels on it. Let’s take a look at the stat lines of a couple of left-handed pitchers over the last five years. Each has been traded in the last 13 months: In addition to both of these guys being exceptional when on mound and not being able to toe the … [Read more...] about If The Red Sox Don’t Extend Garrett Crochet, Then Trading For Him Was A Big Picture Mistake

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The dream is dead. So just how much do the Red Sox need another right-handed hitter, anyway? As Alex Speier points out in a mode of analysis I’ve never actually encountered before but love, the single most valuable thing a hitter can do in Fenway Park is pull a ball to left field. That’s obvious based on the eye test … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Bobby Dalbec peaces out for good

Imagine this, but you smash the whole thing, bun included. | Sussex Meat Packing It looks like an all-time great, at least! If you squint, Brayan Bello looks a lot like Pedro Martinez, who helped the youngster with his slider back in Spring Training 2024. If you don’t squint, it’s not quite the same, so squint dangit! Speaking of sliders, that gives me an idea... * My … [Read more...] about Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Bello’s ‘Best Ever’ Burger

Kim Klement Neitzel-Imagn Images But we can’t trust Heyman anyway so… Happy Thursday. Jon Heyman and Chris Cotillo love this stupid idea and will continue to try and manifest a self-inflicted wound on the Red Sox. According to @JonHeyman, Triston Casas is out there and available despite what the Red Sox say publicly.(via @BRWalkoff) pic.twitter.com/2G7BY3tw6r— Boston … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 1/9: Keep Casas Crew, Assemble!

Serious Eats/Maureen Celestine A perfect blend of old and new. Wilyer Abreu was a revelation last year as a rookie, batting .253/.322/.459 and earning himself 3.1 FanGraphs WAR, good for third on the team behind Jarren Duran and Rafael Devers and ahead (!) of Tyler O’Neill. Given how seamlessly he meshed into the lineup and dusty ol’ Fenway, you’d have thought he was a … [Read more...] about Red Sox Recipes A-Z: Abreu’s Amatriciana