With ESPN’s Jeff Passan reporting Wednesday that Major League Baseball plans to send the players association a return-to-play proposal as quickly as next week, MLB’s long-awaited comeback could happen relatively soon. (Perhaps by June, some have speculated.) The structure of play will be different — probably borrowing logistics from leagues that have already resumed play, […]
The biggest trade of the offseason finally went down Tuesday night, with the Boston Red Sox agreeing to send star outfielder Mookie Betts and starting pitcher David Price to the Los Angeles Dodgers in a complicated three-team deal. With the trade, the two clubs that faced off in the 2018 World Series cemented the different […]
If the Boston Red Sox harbored any hopes of returning to the playoffs after last year’s magical World Series run, they knew they’d need to make a very strong push over the regular season’s last couple of months. Boston entered the final week of July running eight games behind in the American League East race, […]
It’s a bad idea to read too much into any April baseball games, but this week’s two-game sweep at the hands of the archrival New York Yankees appears to have officially sent the Boston Red Sox into a full-blown crisis. The team’s record dipped to 6-13 — tied for the second-worst for a defending champ […]
It’s hard to imagine things going more right for the Boston Red Sox than they did last season. Boston jumped out to a scorching 17-2 start, was 38 games over .500 by the All-Star break, posted the most regular-season wins (108) by an MLB team in 17 years, and then steamrolled through the playoffs with […]