Silencing his doubters with a torrid May, Dustin Pedroia wasted no time last night, depositing a Barry Zito fastball into the second row of the Green Monster, scoring J.D. Drew, to tie the game at 2-2. That would be the story the rest of the night as Drew and Pedroia, hitting in the top two […]

J.D. Drew’s start to the 2007 season has come nothing like was advertised upon the signing of his five year, seventy million dollar contract. After getting off to a good start in Boston, including a home run in his first game at Fenway Park and a nine game hit streak, going thirteen for his […]

After scoring just 8 runs in 38 innings during a dismal 4 game set against Oakland, the Red Sox (39-21) bats broke out in a big way on Friday night scoring 10 runs on 12 hits in a 10-3 win against the Arizona Diamondbacks (36-26). Leading off the game, off-season acquisition, Julio Lugo, who had […]

For all the negativity that has at times surrounded the signing of J.D. Drew this offseason, it certainly seems like Red Sox Times readers (58%) like what they saw this spring and expect a “solid” season from the new right fielder. Almost as many of you expect bigger things from Drew as expect him […]

Kevin Hench, with whom I often find myself disagreeing more than agreeing with, recently took general managers Theo Epstein and J.P. Ricciardi to task for portraying themselves in the “Billy Beane/Moneyball” vein, yet opening their wallets and ballooning payroll to solve their teams needs.
Unfortunately, I think he has missed the mark on this one and […]

With the news this week that the Red Sox have decided to not offer Curt Schilling a contract for the 2008 season before they see him perform this season percolating, lets look at what you, the Red Sox Times readers had to say about the situation. We put the question out their in our […]

As we look over the 40-man roster, a few new name/number associations jump out at you. There are new Red Sox additions taking old favorites numbers allowing fans to repurpose old t-shirts with their numbers on the back. There are young players taking the opportunity to move their September call up numbers […]

After a week sequestered in conference rooms for my real job and a weekend catching up with my family, its good to be back in the swing of things. With “Truck Day” only a day away and Spring Training right around the corner, its time to answer some questions about 2007 that will have […]

According to the Boston Globe, the contractual language surrounding the J.D. Drew deal has been finalized and his signing will be announced tomorrow by the Boston Red Sox. The language barriers around protection for the Red Sox organization from further injury to J.D. Drew’s surgically repaired shoulder have been resolved.
The Red Sox and Drew’s […]

Fourty-four days after Scott Boras announced that his client, J.D. Drew, would suit up for the Boston Red Sox for the next five seasons, we may finally be drawing closer to seeing him hold up #7 in a press conference at Fenway Park.
According to Boras, the Red Sox and Drew are close to working through […]