the joy of sox

1996 Dan Shaughnessy, At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation : "The charm of Fenway is that it is your father's ballpark ....

July 1, 2018. That date may well be remembered as the turning point of Jackie Bradley's career. Bradley was hitting .198 when J.D. Mar...

Chad Finn, Boston Globe, posting at Twitter and SoSH early this morning: Story will be up later, but WEEI is going ahead with plans to d...

Red Sox broadcaster Tim Neverett will not be back in the radio booth in 2019. Last June, WEEI executives told him he might want to start po...

Red Sox manager Alex Cora said yesterday that in 2019 Andrew Benintendi will be at the top of the lineup and Mookie Betts will bat second. ...

Harold Baines received 5.3% of the BBWAA's Hall of Fame votes in 2007, his first year of eligibility. Baines never topped more than 6.1%...

Excerpt from Tiffany Watt Smith's Schadenfreude: The Joy of Another's Misfortune (Little, Brown and Company, 2018): The Japanese...

It's December 9. About six weeks ago, the Red Sox won the 2018 World Series. It was the team's fourth championship in the last 15 se...

Nathan Eovaldi has agreed on a four-year contract with the Red Sox, worth $67.5 million. Boston was aggressive in bringing Eovaldi - who w...

Daily News : It was widely speculated that David Robertson led an effort to stiff a bunch of Yankee employees. Now we have the receipts....

Here is some dirt. I'm willing to bet that dirt knows more about baseball than ESPN's Michael Wilbon. This story is a few weeks...

Members of the 2018 World Champion Boston Red Sox will travel to the White House next spring, the latest professional sports team to partici...

Actually, it's 65 days. February 4: Truck Day February 13: First workout for pitchers and catchers February 18: First full-squad ...

We are home. After nine days of driving, we arrived in Port Hardy, British Columbia, on Tuesday evening (in the rain, naturally). Four loc...

Over five days, we have driven 2,980 kilometers. We spent Friday night in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, the third night in a stretch of sleep...

This afternoon, we begin a nine-day drive across Canada -- nearly 5,000 kilometers (roughly 3,100 miles) -- that will bring us to our new...

Grant Brisbee, SB Nation : It's Hard To Watch Mookie Betts And Think Baseball Is In Trouble Start by making a back-of-the-envelope l...