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Previewing Upcoming Qualifying Offer Decisions: Position Players

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While the baseball world’s immediate focus is on the upcoming showdown between two behemoths, the offseason looms just after the World Series. One of the first key decisions for teams is whether to issue a qualifying offer to any of their impending free agents. Clubs have until the fifth day after the conclusion of the World Series to make QO decisions. The QO is a one-year … [Read more...] about Previewing Upcoming Qualifying Offer Decisions: Position Players

Would It Even Matter To Sox Ownership If The Yankees Win The World Series?

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Photo by Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images The Yankees winning a World Series would obviously be horrible, but would it even change anything the Red Sox front office does? It’s like looking at a car crash, albeit one that was bound to happen, took fifteen years to come to fruition, and involved roughly a billion dollars committed in total and $260 million on the … [Read more...] about Would It Even Matter To Sox Ownership If The Yankees Win The World Series?

Red Sox News & Links: Breslow Shakes Up Front Office

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Photo by Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images News and notes from around Red Sox Nation. Well, this isn’t going to help put an end to the “Tampa Bay North” jokes. Craig Breslow just made the most significant front office hire of his tenure in charge of the Red Sox, poaching executive Taylor Smith from the Tampa Bay Rays. Smith graduated from college in … [Read more...] about Red Sox News & Links: Breslow Shakes Up Front Office

OTM Open Thread 10/21: Shohei to the Series

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Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images Who do you like? Happy Monday. The Cleveland Guardians gave up the ghost and will continue to add to their World Series drought. Their last championship was in 1948 - 76 years. They’re just a decade shy of the legendary Boston Red Sox streak/curse/situation. It was so long ago they defeated the Boston Braves. If you were in college when 2004 … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/21: Shohei to the Series

Red Sox Notes: Coaching Staff, Front Office, Fulmer

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While free agency won’t open for a few more weeks at this point, the Red Sox already have plenty of work on their offseason to-do list. Earlier this month it was reported that several changes were coming to the club’s coaching staff, and Sean McAdam of MassLive.com recently floated a possible name for the job of assistant hitting coach: Dillon Lawson, who has spent the past … [Read more...] about Red Sox Notes: Coaching Staff, Front Office, Fulmer

OTM Open Thread 10/18-10/20: Maybe Time is a Circle

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Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images At least for the ALCS TGIF. We made it to the weekend. Last night the Yankees felt some ghosts getting into their game. But it wasn’t Mystique and Aura it was Big Papi and Dave Roberts. Ready to win the game after 9 innings the Yankees blew the save and then lost in extra innings. Now, instead of ending the series this would have only … [Read more...] about OTM Open Thread 10/18-10/20: Maybe Time is a Circle

Terry Francona To Appear in 2004 Red Sox Doc (and also, in Cincinnati)

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Photo by J. Meric/Getty Images Tito returns to baseball, screens, and hearts in New England. I think the first thing that ever truly bothered me about Red Sox ownership was in 2011 in the aftermath of Terry Francona’s dimissal. An article was published, pointing to anonymous sources who suggested that he had developed a chemical dependence in the wake of his divorce, … [Read more...] about Terry Francona To Appear in 2004 Red Sox Doc (and also, in Cincinnati)