A kid who looks no more than a day older than 18 is currently the top prospect in the Red Sox farm system, and one of the top, if not the top, pitching prospect in Major League Baseball. That kid is the 22-year old Clay Buchholz, who’s pitching repertoire and mental make-up all point to […]

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 […]

Josh Beckett was pounded for 6 runs on 10 hits over 5 tough innings in a 7-1 loss against the Colorado Rockies on Thursday in the rubber game of the series. Beckett, looking to improve upon his 9-0 record, was hit hard from the get-go.
Todd Helton started the scoring with an RBI single up the […]

Yesterday I stumbled upon Curt Schilling on Facebook and impressed by his use of the Internet to further his support of his charitable organizations, I happily friended “Curtis” after double checking what I could (email address, websites, birthplace) to see if it was really him or a Fake Curt Schilling.
I was friended back and after […]

With another postseason series sitting at 3-0, this time the Cleveland Cavaliers down to the San Antonio Spurs in the NBA finals, it’s time for the trailing team and their fans to call upon the ghosts of the 2004 Red Sox for inspiration.
“The Boston Red Sox were down 3-0 to the Yankees in the 2004 […]

Just another day in the Red Sox minor league system last night.  With the big club off for the evening, leave it to Gabe Kapler’s boys in Greenville to throw up some zeros and for George Kottaras to take home ESPN Sportcenter’s top play of the day.
Down in Greenville highly touted prospect from last year’s […]

Starting a blog these days is almost mainstream. I mean, if Youk can do it, then how does that make Curt the Internet guru of the clubhouse? By going 2.0 of course. Aside from hitting the Sons of Sam Horn message boards, blogging at 38pitches.com, and hanging out in a virtual world […]

Coming into this week, two of the three major acquisitions made by the Red Sox this offseason were turning in performances that were more major disappointment than major impact. While Daisuke Matsuzaka has been pretty on target to the overall expectations that proceeded him, at least the logically tempered expectations, both Julio Lugo and […]

The Red Sox 2007 draft is over and forty-seven picks have been made. Of those, 68% were high school players marking a four year low in the mix of college to high school prospects chosen by the Red Sox.
“I think we felt the strength of this Draft was generally in the high school class,” […]

Three hours and forty-six minutes after Julio Lugo struck out to begin the game, Jonathan Papelbon induced a soft liner from Mark Reynolds that was snared chest high by Alex Cora, to nail down his 14th save in 15 chances propelling the Red Sox to a 4-3 come from behind extra inning victory over the […]