The Boston Red Sox, based in Boston, Mass., participate in Major League Baseball (MLB) and are a member of the American League East Division. The Red Sox were founded as the Boston Somersets in 1901.
How healthy is Julio Lugo after the quad injury, and are the Sox using Spring Training as an audition to move him in a trade? — Tom C., Westfield, Mass. Health doesn't appear to be any kind of problem for Lugo. In fact, he was healthy by the very end of last season and was [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — How is Rocco Baldelli feeling? The outfielder — entering his first season with the Boston Red Sox — certainly appreciates everyone's concern, but the inquiry is getting so repetitive that he has already thought up a preventive measure. "I was going to make a sign that said, 'Feeling good, thanks for [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — If the Red Sox didn't leave Jason Bay a map of how to get around Fort Myers, there's a good reason. The left fielder blended in so seamlessly after arriving in Boston last Aug. 1 in the blockbuster deal for Manny Ramirez that it's hard to remember that this is Bay's [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Michael Bowden was in the Major Leagues for about six hours. Long enough to see what the clubhouse looked like, to get his belongings unpacked. Long enough to get a win against his hometown team no less. And just long enough to be told he was headed back to the Minor [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — To put Jonathan Papelbon's dominance in perspective, consider that he is likely to become the Red Sox's all-time saves leader in just his fourth full season in the Major Leagues. But if things go as Papelbon hopes, he will be with the Red Sox long enough to make that record nearly [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — The buzz that accompanied the first full-squad workout of Spring Training was not lost on Red Sox manager Terry Francona, who soaked in a productive morning while watching his team began the unification process for 2009. "It was a good day," Francona said. "As many firsts as there are, the pitchers [...]
The words "Canada" and "baseball" have never been very closely tied together. Although geographically it's as close to the United States as possible, America's pastime has always taken a backseat to hockey there. Proof of that can be found by looking at the 30-man roster for Team Canada during the 2006 World Baseball Classic, when [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — When it came to Spring Training, there was always a storyline for Jon Lester. First, he was the prospect trying to live up to those glittering scouting reports. Then, he was the guy coming back from cancer. Last spring, the dominant theme that surrounded Lester was whether he could improve his [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — While players coming off surgery are often vague about when they can return, Red Sox first baseman/outfielder Mark Kotsay has a concise time frame for when he plans on being back on the active roster. Kotsay is eying the beginning of May to return from back surgery that he underwent at [...]
FORT MYERS, Fla. — Maybe it's the lasting image of Game 7 of the 2008 American League Championship Series, when the Red Sox didn't score for the final eight innings in a 3-1 loss to the Rays. Perhaps it's David Ortiz's repeated suggestion that he could use another basher behind him in the lineup. A [...]